This federal contract award, valued at $480,981.99, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), operating as Stony Brook University. The award supports a research project aimed at characterizing the link between organized atmospheric convection and extreme precipitation events using high-resolution satellite data from NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) and...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC22K1936, was issued by NASA to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) to conduct research on "EO14042 NASA INVESTIGATION OF MICROPHYSICS AND PRECIPITATION FOR ATLANTIC COAST THREATENING SNOWSTORMS (IMPACTS)". The $68,586.00 grant-funded contract has a period of performance ending on September 30, 2023. The work does not have a set-aside designation. As a non-profit research organization, RF-SUNY has...
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY), operating as Stony Brook University, was awarded a $548,560 research grant on February 8, 2024, for a project titled "Characterizing Polar Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties and Variations with CloudSat, CALIPSO, and Other A-Train Satellite Measurements." This civilian grant, administered through a Shared Services Center within the federal government, supports scientific research to be conducted at Stony Brook...
This is a $137,267 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), acting on behalf of Stony Brook University. The goal of the A-CCP (Aerosol-Cloud-Convection Precipitation) study is to define objectives and desired capabilities for observable systems to address science questions related to clouds, convection, and precipitation. The principal investigator will...
This federal contract award, valued at $365,613.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The award is for a project to develop a national index to quantify the variability and change of extratropical cyclone activity (ECA) based on sea level pressure variance statistics. This index can serve as a climate indicator for the...
This $75,000.00 federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY), a non-profit educational organization. The contract supports research to elucidate the relationship between tropospheric synoptic events, vertical wave activity flux, and sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs). The project utilizes NASA's Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2...
This is a $1,565,434 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The grant, titled "Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS)," supports a research project to improve understanding and forecasting of winter snowstorms on the U.S. East Coast. The project will...
This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $728,339.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. The contract is for research related to improving the resolution of Landsat satellite imagery to enable the study of environmental processes occurring at smaller spatial scales. This research aims to develop techniques for image...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K0541, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The award, valued at $255,705.00, is for a research grant focused on "GALAXY CLUSTERING ON THE LARGEST SCALES". The contract does not have a set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by May 31, 2024. Stony Brook University, as a prominent research...
This federal contract award, NNX16AE48G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University, a private research university, to study precipitation and microphysical processes using satellite, field, and in-situ data. The $709,905.05 grant will be used to evaluate and improve bulk microphysical parameterization (BMP) schemes in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, focusing on snow and riming processes. The project aims to...
This federal contract award, valued at $235,207.34, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. The contract supports a research project focused on utilizing satellite and field data to study precipitation and microphysical processes, particularly for mixed-phase and frozen precipitation, in order to improve cloud microphysical parameterizations in numerical weather prediction models. The project will leverage data from recent and upcoming field campaigns, such as OLYMPEX, as well as satellite simulators and unique surface instrumentation to evaluate and enhance bulk microphysical parameterization schemes within the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The award does not have a set-aside designation and is set to be completed by January 31, 2020.