SBIR/STTR Research Award
IMPROVED PYRGEOMETER INSTRUMENT
Award amount
$300,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1996Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- YANKEE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- U54KJSNGEQN1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE MEASUREMENT OF BROADBAND LONGWAVE ATMOSPHERIC (IR) RADIATION IS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE STUDY OF THE GLOBAL CLIMATE AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE MECHANISMS. THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT NEED FOR REDUCING THE MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTIES OF GROUND AND AIRBORNE-BASED INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF LONGWAVE RADIATION. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE INSTRUMENTS OFFER UNSATISFACTORY LEVELS OF ACCURACY AND INSTRUMENT-TO-INSTRUMENT CONSISTENCY. RESEARCHERS ARE IDENTIFYING SEVERAL AREAS IN WHICH PYRGEOMETER DESIGN COULD BE IMPROVED AND OUTLINING EXPERIMENTS TO VERIFY THE ENHANCED PERFORMANCE. THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS AN INSTRUMENT THAT SIGNIFICANTLY EXCEEDS THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT OF THE BSRN NETWORK OF 5 PERCENT (OR 10 W/M(2)) MEASUREMENT ERROR AND IS CLOSE TO THE WMO-DEFINED PERFORMANCE LEVEL FOR A SECONDARY STANDARD TOTAL SOLAR PYRANOMETER (1 PERCENT MEASUREMENT ERROE).
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Smokesonde: Low cost in-situ sampling of smoke and convective storm intensity supporting fire weather and incident meteorology
- Guidesonde: Targeting Meteorological Dropsonde with Optical and In-Situ Sensors
- Atmospheric Characterization for Directed Energy Applications
- STTR Phase I: Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum for Learning, NSF11-561
- Glidersonde, a Meteorological Optical Profiling Sensor
Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2023). Reported award amounts total $12,837,256. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration