This is a $584,814.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (Nwra), a for-profit scientific research organization. The grant is for a focused study on high-resolution Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) modeling, validation, and analysis to investigate atmospheric waves and their influences on winds in the upper troposphere and stratosphere. This research aims to inform improved methods for simulating small-scale wave...
This is a $335,981.02 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a non-profit consortium that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant supports research to improve understanding of the role of dynamical variability and low-frequency phenomena like the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in driving...
This is a $859,336.32 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium managing the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is focused on improving the representation of cloud processes in Earth system models used for both weather and climate prediction. The goal is to develop a unified treatment of cloud microphysics that can integrate with different...
This $316,157.05 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 focused on understanding the role of atmospheric waves in influencing the structure and dynamics of the thermosphere-ionosphere system. The grant will leverage the Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM) and Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (CTIPE) models to quantify the relative contribution of...
This $711,719.00 federal grant award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region of Earth's atmosphere. The grant supports using numerical simulations and satellite data to better understand how global MLT temperature changes during geomagnetic storms and the resulting impacts on atmospheric waves and mean flow. UCAR, a non-profit...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant, valued at $920,830.00, is for research to characterize the spatial and temporal scales of snowbands in Northeast U.S. winter storms, understand the underlying dynamical, thermodynamical, and microphysical processes, and apply this knowledge to...
This $269,851.58 NASA grant was awarded to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (Nwra), a for-profit research organization, to investigate the effects of atmospheric gravity waves on circulation and composition in the Southern Hemisphere. The research will utilize NASA satellite data and climate model output to understand why models typically have biases in temperatures and winds in this region, which impacts the ability to accurately model the ozone hole and climate change. The goal is to...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, received a $272,719 grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 14, 2024, for research titled "Ground-Based Observations That Characterize Circulation and Transport at the Bottom of Geospace: A New Look at Gravity Wave Drag Parameterization in Global Thermosphere-Ionosphere Model." The research will be conducted at NCAR's facility in Boulder, Colorado,...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northwest Research Associates, Inc. (Nwra), a for-profit scientific research organization, to conduct satellite observational analysis and modeling studies on the role of gravity wave dynamics in atmospheric processes. The $538,924.97 grant supports research on how gravity waves impact chemical transport, stratospheric lifetimes, stratosphere-troposphere exchange, radiatively active...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc. (GATS), a for-profit aerospace company. The grant, with a value of $788,251.71, is to conduct research on small-scale gravity wave, instability, and turbulence dynamics in the middle and upper atmosphere. This research aims to improve understanding of the transport and deposition of energy and momentum throughout the atmosphere, which impacts the...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to study high-resolution modeling, validation, and analysis of atmospheric waves and their influence on winds in the upper troposphere and stratosphere. The $97,863.81 grant will fund a focused study to improve the simulation of small-scale waves, including orographic and non-orographic gravity waves, and their effects on the tropical lower stratosphere and winter stratospheric vortex, which impact seasonal predictability. The research will leverage the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model and computational resources to explore the role of resolution, physics, and dissipation on small-scale wave representation. The findings will inform NCAR's work supporting the development of advanced climate and weather prediction models for agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This grant does not have a set-aside designation.