This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The $483,515.00 grant is for research to combine an existing dataset of ocean microstructure measurements with a global ocean circulation model (ECCO v4) to infer in-situ eddy diffusivity, which describes the stirring of large-scale ocean gradients by...
This is a $259,308 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to conduct research on heat absorption and water mass transformation in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The grant will fund a study that evaluates upwelling and heat budget processes in the tropical Pacific using satellite data and ocean state estimates from the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) model. The research aims to...
This federal contract award, NNX16AH60G, was granted to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on ocean-atmosphere interaction across a range of spatial and temporal scales. The $227,653.00 grant aims to re-examine the relative contributions of atmospheric weather and oceanic mesoscale processes to variability in air-sea energy exchange. The study will leverage high-resolution satellite...
This is a $416,451 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium of over 115 universities, to develop an estimate of shallow convective mixing using more than a decade of tropical and subtropical satellite retrievals. The grant is intended to address a specific need identified by the agency. The work will be performed at UCAR's National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in...
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 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...
This is a $23,819.09 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to conduct research on understanding how the global water cycle is accelerating. UCAR, a nonprofit consortium of over 115 universities, manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and provides specialized atmospheric research and development services to government agencies. The grant, which has an ultimate completion date...
This federal grant award, valued at $584,609.20, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the parent organization of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant funds research to better characterize and quantify heterogeneous halogen chemistry outside polar regions, using satellite data and the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM2). The research aims to understand the potential...
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 $513,248 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is focused on improving the representation of warm cloud microphysics in Earth system models, such as the GISS Model E, GEOS, and CESM. The research aims to better constrain model parameters using a...
This is a $268,258 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which operates the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is for research focused on revisiting two major aspects of ocean mixing in the context of new high-resolution data on air-sea heat fluxes and eddy-resolving climate models.
Specifically, the research aims to: 1) determine the scale-dependence of global eddy potential energy dissipation, and 2) determine the scale-dependence of water mass transformation. The work will leverage new datasets on air-sea heat and freshwater fluxes, sea surface temperature, and salinity, as well as high-resolution climate models. This grant does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded directly to UCAR/NCAR as the prime contractor on April 10, 2018, with a period of performance ending on April 9, 2021.