This federal contract award, with an ID of NNX16AG30G, was issued by the Shared Services Center (an agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The $533,129.99 grant is for a research project titled "A Novel GNSS-Based Terrestrial Water Storage Time Series for the Nation". The project aims to use data from NASA's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Gravity...
This is a $926,176 grant award to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on capturing dynamic changes in the marine atmospheric boundary layer in atmospheric rivers using GNSS radio occultation. The award has a period of performance from March 2025 to March 2028. UCSD is a renowned public research university and a leader in ocean and earth science research. This grant...
This is a $564,298 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant is for research on applying machine learning approaches to derive Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation observation errors within atmospheric rivers, with the goal of optimizing their use in data assimilation. The project has a period of performance through July 18, 2026. UCSD is a...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AD99G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The $699,991.65 grant funds research to improve understanding of the crustal deformation and earthquake cycle using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data and complementary Earth observation datasets. The research aims to enhance estimates of earthquake and tsunami hazards,...
This federal contract award, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), provides a $430,063.00 grant to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant funds a research project to better understand how low-level clouds respond to changes in atmospheric and ocean conditions associated with global warming. The project leverages multiple satellite datasets to quantify the relationships between low-level cloud properties and key...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC22K0603, is a $140,275.00 grant for research provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The award supports a study on the influence of convection on atmospheric river genesis, evolution, and precipitation production. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a world-renowned center for ocean and earth science research, will leverage its...
This is a $140,026.89 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct research on atmospheric rivers (ARs) - narrow corridors of intense water vapor transport that account for over 90% of the poleward transport of water vapor and are a major contributor to extreme precipitation and flooding events. The objectives are to: 1) characterize ARs using satellite data, 2) estimate atmospheric and terrestrial water...
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division was awarded a $799,183.00 grant (80NSSC19K0058) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on ocean-atmosphere interactions and mesoscale ocean dynamics. The research aims to develop a filter that can better incorporate satellite-observed wind data into high-resolution ocean models, addressing a longstanding challenge in utilizing scatterometer observations to drive...
This federal contract award, with the identification number NNX17AH53G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The $855,366.00 grant funds research to evaluate sub-100-km scale variability in sea surface height using altimetry, acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data, and numerical models. The research will focus on several regions, including the California Current, the area...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography Division. The $135,000 training grant is intended to fund research on how surface gravity waves interact with upper ocean processes, including wave-current interactions and the impact of waves on vertical mixing. The goal is to improve the incorporation of these air-sea exchange processes into climate...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AU19G, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The $833,502.00 grant is for the development of simulation and retrieval techniques to study the impact of precipitation on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation signals. The objective is to test the hypothesis that dense polarimetric GNSS radio occultation observations can improve microphysical modeling and forecasting of heavy precipitation events, such as atmospheric rivers that impact the western United States. The work will analyze existing airborne datasets and conduct sensitivity studies using weather modeling to assess the potential for future GNSS-based observational missions to enhance precipitation monitoring and forecasting. This grant does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting Scripps' status as a large educational institution with extensive federal research experience.