The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $558,161 grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division, for a project focused on tropical cyclones and associated precipitation in the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System. This grant-funded research is scheduled for completion by July 13, 2026. Columbia University is a renowned private research institution that frequently...
This is a $271,257 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as Columbia University. The grant is for research on extratropical cyclones and their impact on Earth's weather and climate. The research will focus on how these weather systems affect the radiative balance and precipitation patterns in middle and high latitudes. The award does not have a...
This is a $125,088 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for the project "DEVELOPING A SATELLITE-BASED CONVECTIVE MASS FLUX DATASET FOR EVALUATING AND IMPROVING GCM CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION". The grant is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. The project aims to develop a satellite-based dataset to support the evaluation and improvement of general circulation model (GCM)...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $183,469.47 grant for research to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University). The research aims to study the transition from shallow to deep convection over tropical oceans using satellite data from Aqua, Suomi NPP, and other sources. The objectives are to demonstrate the feasibility of computing a multi-sensor radiative heating-induced moistening term, and to map twice-daily satellite...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York received a $379,313 research grant from the Shared Services Center with an ultimate completion date of October 16, 2026. The grant, titled "Inferring Middle- and High-Level Cloud Feedbacks Using A-Train Observations," supports scientific research utilizing data from NASA's A-Train satellite constellation to advance understanding of cloud feedback mechanisms at middle and high altitudes. This non-set-aside award was...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York was awarded a $477,423 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on identifying the most important cloud-controlling factors for high and low-level clouds in the extratropics, and quantify their effect using multivariate regressions. This grant, awarded on September 1, 2021, has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Columbia...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York has been awarded a $188,890 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center. The grant funds research to construct retrieval algorithms for ocean suite parameters including wind speed, water vapor, and cloud water using passive microwave sensors. It will also develop algorithms for precipitation, sea ice, soil moisture, and snow water equivalent. This supports NASA's objectives to better understand...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $150,000.00 grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division, for a research project titled "Hybrid-Machine Learning Model for the Discovery of Unknown Functional Relationships in the Terrestrial Water and Carbon Cycles". This grant is not a set-aside contract. The project aims to develop advanced modeling techniques to better...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as Columbia University, for a research project titled "DEEP CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS PRODUCE EXPANSIVE STRATIFORM RAINING REGIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE GLOBAL RAINFALL CLIMATOLOGY." The grant, valued at $518,820.00, has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2026. The award was made on February 3, 2022, and there...
This is a $68,499 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to conduct research on cloud-radiation-circulation coupling within the atmosphere and its connection with the upper ocean over the subtropical and tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating it was competitively awarded based on Columbia University's expertise in...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Sponsored Projects Administration Division (Columbia University) has been awarded a $221,039 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to analyze the representation of moist processes in frontal extratropical cyclones in NASA models and reanalyses. The research draws upon existing databases of satellite observations to examine changes in cloud vertical structure and the incidence of deep convection along fronts, and will partner with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to evaluate the realism of simulated convective and large-scale precipitation in the GEOS model. There is no set-aside designation for this grant, which has a period of performance ending on July 6, 2021.