This federal contract award to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) Division, part of the University of Miami, aims to analyze radiative feedbacks and forcings that impact the global hydrological cycle. The $110,967.77 contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will leverage satellite observations and climate model simulations to investigate the physical processes controlling precipitation changes, sensible heat...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center is a $281,346 grant to the University of Miami Office of Research - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) division for hurricane research and modeling. As the prime contractor, RSMAS will utilize subawards to complete analyses of dropsonde, HAMSR and S-HIS moisture data to study hurricane intensification, accumulate radar data from prior NASA field programs to...
This federal contract award, valued at $176,767.85, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) Division. The award is part of a larger NASA program focused on using observations to advance the understanding and predictability of hurricane processes. Under this contract, the University of Miami RSMAS Division will be responsible for running ensemble forecasts of several past...
This federal contract award, valued at $598,660.20, was granted to the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) division by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract funds research to monitor and analyze the horizontal and vertical redistribution of heat in the ocean, using satellite and in-situ observations. The research aims to understand the processes behind the accumulation of heat in the subtropical South Pacific and...
This federal contract award, valued at $135,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Miami for a research grant. The contract has a completion date of August 31, 2024 and was awarded on September 1, 2021. The University of Miami, through its Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science division, provides a range of research services to federal agencies such as NASA, NOAA, DOI, DOD, and EPA. This grant is...
This federal contract award to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) will support the production of global sea surface temperature (SST) data products from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor that are compatible with the historical dataset from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument. The $662,350 grant award, with a period of performance through February 15, 2026, was provided by the National...
The University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) has been awarded a $47,436.08 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to host a joint workshop focused on the CYGNSS and TROPICS satellite missions. The workshop will engage user communities and enable cross-cutting science and applications across weather, climate, and disaster-related focus areas. It will also explore opportunities to extend the use of CYGNSS and TROPICS data to...
This federal contract award to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) division will investigate the use of CloudSat satellite data to improve the understanding of how convective structure affects tropical cyclone intensity changes. The $479,852.50 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will involve modeling and diagnostic analyses to determine if CloudSat reflectivity profiles and water content retrievals, combined with...
This federal contract award to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) Division provides funding for a research project focused on utilizing data from the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) satellite mission to study tropical waves, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, and tropical cyclones. The project aims to create superior-quality, global 4x daily gridded ocean surface wind products from CYGNSS data for use by NASA and the broader...
This federal contract award, valued at $393,767.96, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) division. The contract supports research to improve atmospheric delay correction for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, which is intended to monitor geological hazards. The research aims to develop methods for jointly estimating water vapor and ground elevation...
This federal contract award, valued at $115,494.98, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) Division. The award supports research to develop a new precipitation-based index for tracking the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), a dominant mode of tropical intraseasonal variability that affects global weather patterns. The research aims to leverage data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellites to better understand and predict the MJO and associated high-impact weather events. No set-aside designation was mentioned for this contract. The University of Miami RSMAS Division has a long history of collaborating with federal agencies like NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense on a range of oceanographic and atmospheric research initiatives.