This is a $352,401.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Morgan State University, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Baltimore, Maryland. The award is for the development of the GPM Combined Radar Radiometer Precipitation Algorithm, which utilizes a Bayesian estimation methodology to estimate geophysical variables involved in precipitation measurement. The award has a period of performance ending on February 3, 2026 and does...
This federal contract award to Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $243,557.38 grant is for research to develop methodologies that combine observational data and models to improve numerical weather prediction and produce better analyses and downscaling of satellite precipitation estimates. This work supports the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was granted to Morgan State University, a historically Black university, to support contributions to the Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team. The $283,603.23 grant funds the development of (1) global modeling and assimilation methodologies to utilize all-sky Global Microwave Imager (GMI) radiance data in the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS-5) 4D-Ensemble Variational (4D-EnVar)...
This federal contract award, valued at $362,009.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Morgan State University, a historically Black university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The contract aims to develop innovative and versatile retrieval techniques to improve the performance of the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission satellite. Specifically, the research will focus on enhancing the DPR's...
This is a $190,186.31 grant award to Morgan State University, a historically Black university, to conduct research on ice particle microphysics and its impacts on satellite precipitation retrieval algorithms. The research aims to better constrain ice particle collection efficiencies, a major source of uncertainty in cloud models, using long-term observations from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission as well as field campaign data. The work will leverage Goddard Cumulus Ensemble...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland. The $314,331.74 grant is for research focused on mitigating ground clutter issues that negatively impact precipitation detection and quantification from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) radar observations, particularly in cold season,...
This federal contract award to Morgan State University, a historically Black university, is for the development of an effective methodology to mitigate the impact of multiple scattering effects in multi-frequency spaceborne radar retrievals. The $317,838.71 grant is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and will support the incorporation of an efficient 1D Monte Carlo multiple scattering model into a variational retrieval framework to address this challenge. The...
This is a federal grant award issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Morgan State University, a historically Black university, for a project titled "Using GPM Data to Examine the Effects of Cloud Dynamics on Microphysics". The $302,682.50 grant will fund research that leverages data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission to study how cloud dynamics, such as updrafts and downdrafts, impact cloud microphysics like ice crystal concentration....
This is a $364,949 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Morgan State University, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Baltimore, Maryland. The grant is for a research project titled "ENHANCING COUPLED LAND-ATMOSPHERE REANALYSIS THROUGH THE ASSIMILATION OF CYGNSS SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS." The project aims to improve land-atmosphere modeling by assimilating soil moisture data from the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite...
This $206,421 federal grant was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Morgan State University, a historically Black university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The grant is focused on evaluating models for drop size distribution (DSD) and assessing uncertainties in dual-polarization radar (DPR) rain retrievals, as well as estimating snow microphysical properties and developing snow algorithms. The award supports research across multiple atmospheric science and remote...