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Five new NASA airborne field campaigns will take to the skies starting in 2015 to investigate how long-range air pollution, warming ocean waters, and fires in Africa affect our climate. NASA says these studies into several incompletely understood Earth system processes were competitively-selected as part of NASAs Earth Venture-class projects. Each project is funded at a total cost of no more than $30 million over five years. This funding includes initial development, field campaigns and analysis of data. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This is NASAs second series of Earth Venture suborbital investigations -- regularly solicited, quick-turnaround projects recommended by the National Research Council in 2007. The first series of five projects was selected in 2010. <\/p>\n
\"These new investigations address a variety of key scientific questions critical to advancing our understanding of how Earth works,\" said Jack Kaye, associate director for research in NASA's Earth Science Division in Washington. These innovative airborne experiments will let us probe inside processes and locations in unprecedented detail that complements what we can do with our fleet of Earth-observing satellites. <\/p>\n
The five selected Earth Venture investigations are: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seven NASA centers, 25 educational institutions, three U.S. government agencies and two industry partners are involved in these Earth Venture projects. The five investigations were selected from 33 proposals. <\/p>\n
Earth Venture investigations are part of NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder program managed at Langley for NASAs Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The missions in this program provide an innovative approach to address Earth science research with periodic windows of opportunity to accommodate new scientific priorities. <\/p>\n
NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, sea, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and surface-based observation campaigns. With this information and computer analysis tools, NASA studies Earth's interconnected systems to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet. <\/p>\n
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