Grant For Research NAG81882

This is a $249,898 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado to develop an improved radiative transfer model for processing data from passive and active microwave remote sensing instruments. The model will incorporate advanced capabilities to handle complex hydrometeors and cloud structures, improving applications in weather forecasting, climate science, and satellite data assimilation. Key enhancements include...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to demonstrate the value of using high-resolution satellite data from the next-generation GOES-R satellite to improve forecasts of severe convective storms. The $343,152.86 grant will fund research that aims to show how assimilating GOES-R atmospheric motion vectors and convective initiation products into a state-of-the-art storm-scale ensemble...

This federal grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, supports research on data assimilation techniques to enhance the predictability of extreme weather events and soil moisture dynamics. The $299,467 grant aims to develop new variational data assimilation methods that can better account for non-Gaussian errors, observational outliers, and systematic biases in weather and...

This federal contract award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) aims to quantify and attribute past air quality trends in ozone and particulate matter over the United States from 2005 to 2018. The $696,948 grant will fund the use of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, constrained by NASA satellite data, to generate daily air quality analyses at the county level. The effort will disentangle the contribution of individual physical and chemical processes...

<p>This federal contract award was made by a U.S. government agency to the prime contractor, QSS Group, Inc. The contract, with an award value of $304,982.20, is for support in the development of algorithms and implementation of an operational processing system for the Advanced Infrared Sounder (AIRS). The contract is a firm fixed price Delivery Order with a completion date of June 14, 2005. The place of performance is Suitland, Maryland. This contract does not have a set-aside designation.</p>

This is a $131,953 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to improve the assimilation of aerosol-affected radiances into numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. The objective is to incorporate comprehensive aerosol information from UAH's Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition (SPORT) Center into the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) to better simulate infrared radiances affected by dust aerosols. This research aims to reduce errors in the...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $386,652 firm fixed price delivery order contract to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, operating as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to provide WSR-88D Data Quality and Signal Processing services. The contract has a period of performance from June 15, 2022 through June 14, 2023 and will be performed in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR will support NOAA in ensuring the quality of data collected by...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the Department of Commerce, to Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., a small business. The $120,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a portable 3-dimensional variational (3DVAR) data assimilation module for NOAA's operational forecasting systems. The work is being performed in Barnstable, MA and the contract has a completion date of...

This is a $976,515 grant award from the Shared Services Center (part of NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a non-profit organization that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The award is for a research project titled &quot;ADVANCED AIR QUALITY FORECASTING THROUGH COUPLED DATA ASSIMILATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL PACE AEROSOL RETRIEVALS AND ALL-SKY RADIANCES FROM MULTIPLE SATELLITE-BASED SENSORS.&quot; This grant-funded research aims to...

This is a $56,332.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Oklahoma for research and development related to precipitation monitoring and validation. The grant requires the University to provide up-to-date, real-time precipitation data products derived from the Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) system to support comparison and validation of precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's core and constellation...