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The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), operating as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), was awarded a $695,407 grant by the National Science Foundation to support the Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality (ASIA-AQ) field campaign. This research initiative will develop multi-scale chemistry model forecasts and analyses to facilitate flight planning and post-campaign interpretation of observations. UCAR will deploy a suite of atmospheric...

The Research Foundation for the State University of New York at the University at Albany received a $630,429 grant award from the Shared Services Center on December 7, 2021, to support research investigating land-atmosphere interactions and their role in climate uncertainty. The project, with a completion date of December 6, 2026, addresses critical gaps in understanding how land surface conditions influence weather and climate across midlatitude regions. The research leverages long-term,...

This is a $513,248 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is focused on improving the representation of warm cloud microphysics in Earth system models, such as the GISS Model E, GEOS, and CESM. The research aims to better constrain model parameters using a...

Stratton Park Engineering Co., Inc. (SPEC) was awarded a $1.31M research grant by NASA's Shared Services Center on September 30, 2022, to develop and deploy in situ microphysics measurement instruments in support of the ARCSIX (Arctic Radiance in-situ Colorimetry for Investigating Shortwave Cloud Forcing) project. The work, to be completed by September 29, 2028, focuses on equipping NASA's P-3B research aircraft with state-of-the-art cloud particle measurement probes to collect critical data...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $299,946 grant to Space Environment Technologies, LLC for the ARMAS Dual Monitor Pre-Operations Mission Demonstration (ARMAS DM POMD) on November 7, 2019, with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2024. This grant, which does not utilize a set-aside designation, supports research and development activities based at the contractor's Pacific Palisades, California location. Space Environment Technologies, a small business specializing in space...

The American Meteorological Society, Inc. (AMS) has been awarded a $1.06 million research grant by a civilian federal agency effective August 16, 2023, with a completion date of August 15, 2028. This award supports AMS's "Enabling the Climate Enterprise: The Continuum of Information Through Application" initiative, which aims to establish foundational outcomes for transforming the climate enterprise through community-wide discussion, external partnership development, strategic...

The University of Maryland, College Park received a $361,063 grant award from a civilian federal agency for research on air-sea interaction and coupling at the ocean submesoscale. The award, which commenced February 3, 2021 and concluded January 31, 2025, supports fundamental research examining how the ocean and atmosphere exchange heat and momentum at fine spatial scales (0.1-10 kilometers). The project leverages high-resolution observations from NASA's Earth Venture Suborbital-3...

This is a $154,216.19 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to deploy the Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS), also known as a dropsonde, on the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Olympic Mountain Ground Validation Experiment (OLYMPEX) field campaign from November 10 to December 22, 2015. The...

This is a grant awarded by NASA to Florida State University (FSU) for a research proposal to study convective processes in the tropics under the Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics (WAAD) funding opportunity. The research aims to improve understanding and modeling of hurricane genesis and intensity change, utilizing data assimilation techniques that combine wind data from various sources like DAWN lidar, dropwindsondes, CYGNSS, and precipitation estimates. The project also plans to investigate...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc., a for-profit aerospace company. The $157,182.99 grant supports research to analyze polar mesospheric cloud (PMC) data from NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) and Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER) missions. The research aims to delineate local time and longitudinal variability in PMC parameters, and...