The Regents of the University of Colorado, acting through its Office of Contracts and Grants Division, was awarded a $874,108.00 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct data-driven simulations of two flaring active regions on the Sun. This research will use the Radiative MHD, Magnetic Flux Eruption, and Coronal Global Evolutionary Model codes to model the processes underlying solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The goal is to gain a better...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,976.00 grant to the University of Colorado, an accredited public research university, to further develop and validate a solar wind visualization tool that can enhance space weather forecasting capabilities. The tool, which has reached Technology Readiness Level 4, will undergo additional testing and integration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center and the UK Met...
This federal contract award with ID 80NSSC20K1449 is a $482,499.73 grant provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, operating as the University of Colorado, for the development and utilization of the ENLIL Solar Wind Forecasting Model. This critical space weather forecasting tool aids NASA's space weather prediction capabilities. The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, has an ultimate completion date of...
This federal grant award to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, is for research to study the impact of solar flares on the Mars upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and induced magnetosphere. The $410,485.26 grant, awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aims to address key science questions about how solar flare events affect the near-Mars space...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The $18,147.32 grant is for research to explore "solar rotation modulation of interstellar dust fluxes at the WIND spacecraft." The award is not associated with a larger contract vehicle, does not have a set-aside designation, and has a period of performance through...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The $1,386,417.71 grant is for research to investigate the degree of rotational constraint on solar convection and its impact on the solar dynamo. The research utilizes a combination of theoretical modeling, numerical simulations, and helioseismic observations to characterize the...
This is a $612,874.41 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), doing business as the University of Colorado, for research on whether magnetic reconnection occurs via single or multiple X-lines in the solar wind. The research aims to understand solar wind structure and energy budget by analyzing magnetic field signatures across solar wind exhausts. The grant supports solar wind observations, multi-spacecraft...
This federal contract award, valued at $599,775.37, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado (CU). The award is not associated with a set-aside designation. The contract aims to advance the understanding of magnetic field dynamics and oscillations in the solar corona, which are believed to be linked to the occurrence of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. To achieve...
This federal contract award to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, is a $354,506.34 grant for research to improve historical reconstructions of total solar irradiance (TSI) measurements. The work will update the sunspot record used in TSI models, re-compute flux-transport model results, and continue improving the existing TSI composite that provides a 40-year record of variability and uncertainties in...
This is a $395,773.83 grant awarded by NASA to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, a public research university. The purpose of the grant is to characterize changes in the neutral atmosphere during geomagnetic storms in order to improve the modeling of ion-neutral interactions in the topside ionosphere. This research supports NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) program goals of developing the scientific...
This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, aims to improve the accuracy of solar wind forecasting through enhancements to the input data used by the operational WSA/ENLIL model. The $283,270.65 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will fund research to apply a new calibration to the Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) magnetic field data pipeline and archives, as well as improve GONG's polar flux and radial magnetic flux maps using higher resolution vector data from other sources. This effort is intended to increase the accuracy of WSA/ENLIL ambient solar wind predictions, leading to better forecasting of geomagnetic storms caused by high-speed solar wind streams and co-rotating interaction regions. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.