The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $132,876.91 training grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to diagnose the physical origins and seasonality of observed wetting trends in the eastern United States over the past century and determine the degree to which these trends are dynamically associated with drying in the western U.S. The research will use satellite data, weather station records, climate model...
This $10,982,144.66 cooperative agreement was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to support research related to the observation and modeling of the Earth's climate system. The research covers climate variability, long-term climate change, and the impacts of climate change, with a focus on advancing the study of climate sensitivity to natural and anthropogenic forcings. Columbia...
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...
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)...
This $456,497.83 federal grant was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on the comparative climatology of early Earth and Mars. The research will combine observation, theory, and 3D climate modeling to characterize and compare the habitable states of the two planets at simultaneous points in early solar system history. The goal is to better understand when habitable conditions were established...
This is a $7,479,828.14 Cooperative Agreement awarded by NASA to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to continue cooperative research with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The research aims to further elucidate the radiative forcings that determine climate, the dynamical response of the atmosphere to these forcings, and the moist convective and stratiform cloud processes in the GISS global climate model that control interactions of diabatic heating...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AF46G, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division. The $193,351.79 grant funds research to optimize free parameters of global climate models using NASA observational datasets. The goal is to assess the impact of incorporating observational uncertainty into model performance metrics, and determine how...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York was awarded a $689,109 research grant by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) on July 9, 2021, with an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2026. The grant supports development of a new vegetation model to be coupled with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE (GISS-E) climate model, incorporating data assimilation and machine learning algorithms designed to improve representation of critical vegetation...
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...
This is a $150,000.00 grant award to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as Columbia University, by a civilian federal agency, the Shared Services Center. The award is for research to determine the causal mechanisms of dry and humid heat extremes, and how they may change due to global warming. The research aims to address critical knowledge gaps in understanding the regional characteristics of temperature variability and extremes, which have wide-ranging...
This is a $461,837.72 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Sponsored Projects Administration Division. The grant funds research to improve understanding of the variability and physical drivers of droughts and heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere extra-tropics using observations and NASA's GISS General Circulation Model (GCM) MODELE. The research objectives include analyzing droughts and heat waves in observations and model configurations, investigating the impact of processes like irrigation and fire on modeled droughts and heat waves, evaluating how antecedent conditions affect summer droughts and heat waves, and investigating how natural variability and anthropogenic changes interact to affect the risk and intensity of extreme events. This research aims to improve confidence in climate model projections of droughts and heat waves, which have significant consequences for ecosystems and societies. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.