This federal contract award, valued at $135,000.00, was granted to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract, which is not set-aside, supports research to fulfill the 2018 NASA Science Mission Directorate Earth Science Division's strategic goal of improving weather forecasts and predicting catastrophic events. As a renowned private...
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...
This federal contract award, valued at $964,659.52, was granted to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University, to conduct research on tropical cyclones (TCs) using a high-resolution version of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) climate model. The project aims to develop an improved model for simulating TCs on a global scale and study the influence of climate change and the El...
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 federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K1134, was granted to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, doing business as Columbia University, to conduct research focused on improving the understanding of low-cloud feedbacks and their representation in the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Earth System Model (NASA-GISS ESM). The award, valued at $409,547.00, is a grant for research to be completed by May 26, 2026. The funding agency is the Shared Services...
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 federal contract award, Contract ID 80NSSC20M0282, is a Cooperative Agreement valued at $11,790,826.00 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 scope of the research under this agreement involves the integration of multidisciplinary expertise to study and model the Earth's climate. The award has no set-aside...
The federal contract award with ID 80NSSC21K1498 was granted to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, a prestigious private research university, to conduct research on "Quantifying Uncertainty and Constraining Parameterizations of Clouds in Earth System Models Using NASA Observations." The $245,762.00 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), does not have a set-aside designation and will be performed in New York, NY. The award...
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...
This federal contract award, NNX16AO16H, was granted by a civilian federal agency to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division. The $117,146.74 contract supports research to better understand the interactions between the biosphere and atmosphere, with the goal of improving weather, climate, and ecological forecasting models. The work will involve analyzing satellite remote sensing data using a novel statistical...
This is a $104,999.80 federal contract award issued by NASA to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on the Asian monsoon response to human-induced climate change. The objective is to analyze observational data and climate model outputs to understand the physical mechanisms by which greenhouse gases and aerosols impact the Asian monsoon system, including effects on precipitation and water resources. The research leverages NASA satellite data as well as climate model simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5. The work supports NASA's Earth science goals to advance understanding of the Earth system and climate change. The contract is not a set-aside, and there are no indications of major subcontractors. As a renowned private research institution, Columbia University has a long history of conducting cutting-edge scientific research under federal contracts and grants across a wide range of disciplines.