The federal contract award NNX17AI63G, issued by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Colorado, provides $514,468.00 in grant funding for a research project on the interannual variability and decadal change of upwelling and heat redistribution over the Indian Ocean. The project aims to utilize satellite altimeter data, in-situ observations, and advanced statistical tools to investigate the roles of climate modes in driving changes to Indian Ocean upwelling and upper-ocean heat...
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 $91,597.86 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Delaware. The purpose is to support a Ph.D. student's research on changes in global ocean salinity and related dynamical processes, with the goal of improving understanding of how the deep and abyssal oceans respond to changing surface forcing. The award will fund the student's work, including data analysis, travel to conferences, and enhanced training to become an...
This is a $803,591.87 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division. The grant is for the "Decision and Information System for the Coastal Waters of Oman (DISCO) - An Integrative Tool for Managing Marine Ecosystems in a Time of Changing Climate". The project aims to develop a decision support system that will...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York has been awarded a $554,144 research grant by the Shared Services Center to support the Indo-US-Oman Partnership for Validating PACE Ocean Color Products in the Rapidly Changing, Historically Undersampled Ecosystem of the Arabian Sea. The award, issued on March 29, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of March 28, 2027, represents a non-set-aside grant for research. The project will be performed in New York, New York and leverages...
This is a $90,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to better understand variability in the tropical upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) and its influence on tropical deep convection. The project utilizes NASA satellite datasets, reanalysis products, and a NASA general circulation model to characterize UTLS variability attributable to the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)...
This is a $724,000.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian U.S. government agency, to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for the research project "Multisensor Observation of Drivers of Phytoplankton Community Structure and Productivity in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean." The research aims to use satellite measurements to analyze carbon fixation in the tropical Atlantic domain. The award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating open...
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 is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Cambridge Climate Institute, Inc., a non-profit organization, for research related to the ocean water cycle and surface salinity. The grant, valued at $135,619.05, will investigate the relationship between the ocean water cycle and surface salinity, and provide expertise towards improving the estimates of freshwater fluxes using salinity measurements, including those from NASA's Aquarius satellite mission....
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...
This is a $129,180.49 training 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 (Columbia University) on September 1, 2017. The grant supports research to investigate the temperature and salinity response within the surface and thermocline stratification of the tropical Indian Ocean to variability described by the Indonesian Throughflow, a key ocean current system. To extend the analysis, the researchers will relate the observed time series in the Makassar Strait to Pacific wind stress and current patterns. This study aims to improve understanding of the Indian Ocean heat and freshwater budget and factors driving the large-scale ocean system, which has implications for validating climate and monsoon models. The award is not associated with a set-aside program.