SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF JPSS CAL/VAL
- Notice Date
- 8/5/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Acquisition Division - Boulder, 325 Broadway - MC3, Boulder, Colorado, 80305-3328, United States
- ZIP Code
- 80305-3328
- Solicitation Number
- NEED0000-16-01167SRG
- Archive Date
- 8/10/2016
- Point of Contact
- Suzanne A Romberg-Garrett, Phone: 303-497-5110
- E-Mail Address
-
suzanne.garrett@noaa.gov
(suzanne.garrett@noaa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- CAN YOUR COMPANY PERFORM THE SCOPE TASKINGS? REQUEST FOR INFORMATION LOOKING FOR TECHNICAL VENDORS THAT COULD PROVIDE THE BELOW REQUIREMENT STATEMENT OF WORK FOR RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF JPSS CAL/VAL SCOPE OF WORK In support JPSS Science Data Calibration and Validation (CAL/VAL) effort, it is important to develop an optimal ice cloud optical/radiative property forward model required for Testing/validating/implementing retrieval algorithms based on JPSS observation. The goal of this work is to understand the impact of the assumed ice microphysical model on the cloud-top height (CTH) inferred from an optimal estimation (OE) method. With the current (OE) approach, a single habit is used that consists of the aggregate of solid columns. Based on use of this habit, the resulting CTH values tend to be placed near the base of the cirrus cloud. In comparisons with the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Collection 6 (C6) products, the inferred OE cloud-top height tends to be 1-3 km lower. By changing the habit to an "empirical model" the CTH values increases towards the center of the cloud, in much better agreement with MODIS C6. The question is: why did the ice model choice have this impact on the CTH values? To address this question, the first task is to investigate how the ice model influenced the results. Furthermore, the second task is to determine whether there is a better choice of an ice model that would be useful in global ice cloud retrievals. DELIVERABLES An optimal ice cloud optical/radiative property model, including data sets for the relevant ice particle habit and single-scattering properties (namely, the phase function, single-scattering albedo, and extinction efficiency). PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE The period of performance is one year from date of award. SECURITY The contractor must comply with all DOC and NOAA IT security policies and procedures as they relate to the development of existing or new software. The source code of the existing or new software must be documented. All security controls embedded in the application must be clearly identified (e.g. name of security control, purpose of security control, brief description/action of the control, and input and output requirements of the control, including any exceptions). All software to be transitioned to operations must comply with NESDIS operational software programming standards and be documented according to NESDIS operational documentation standards. All source code will be examined by NESDIS in a source code review to ensure that standards have been followed and that no intent, logic, or syntax errors exist that may lead to vulnerabilities and allow exploitation of the application. Transition to operations includes modification of software to conform to the operational system design and to fully comply with operational software programming standards. Also required is the development of external documentation for the software and products, documentation which must fully comply with operational documentation standards.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NCWCP NOAA/NESDIS/START, 5830 UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CT, SUITE 2600, COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, 20740, United States
- Zip Code: 20740
- Zip Code: 20740
- Record
- SN04211570-W 20160807/160805234650-161c63c22d22c77f3bc029f7811e1d7e (fbodaily.com)
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