Grant For Research NNX16AE88G
Award Date 1/12/16
Potential Completion Date 5/11/20
Potential Value $140K
Federal Agency
Ultimate Awardee
NAICS Category
Not listed Federal Contract Vehicle
- Not listed
Set-Aside Type
No Set-Aside Used
Extent Competed
Full and Open Competition
Major Defense Program
Not listed Pricing Type
Other
Place of Performance
Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Solicitation Procedures
Basic Research
Number Of Offers Received
Not listed
Legislative Mandate
Not listed National Interest Action
Not listed Research Type
Not listed Primary Consortia Member
Not listed Similar Awards
- This is a $119,999.99 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to extend their initial successful work in assimilating Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) precipitation data. The key objectives are to: A) Compare IMERG and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) data, B) Use a higher resolution Global Forecast System...
- 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 $284,733.14 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for the "Improved Global Flood Monitoring and Forecasting with GPM Precipitation and Hydrological Models" project. The grant will focus on adapting the university's existing Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) to take advantage of improvements in the NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for...
- This is a $256,160.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to improve coupled atmosphere-ocean Earth system analyses and weather forecasts by directly assimilating data from NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The primary goal is to enhance understanding of the air-sea interface through advanced data assimilation techniques. This grant is not associated with a set-aside program. UMD is a...
- This is a $408,529.79 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The grant is to further develop the Precipitation Retrieval and Profiling Scheme (PRPS), a computationally efficient algorithm for retrieving precipitation data from cross-track satellite sensors. The research aims to extend PRPS to additional sensors, improve the underlying databases, enhance database access, and validate the retrievals. This...
- This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AE85G, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for the funding agency) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to continue development and integration of nonspherical snow and melting particle models. The primary objectives are to extend the database of snow particles, simulate melting of particles, and introduce the bulk single-scattering properties into a combined algorithm framework for testing radiative consistency...
- This is a $254,498.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct research related to quantifying hydrologic and cryospheric changes and associated mechanisms. The scope of work includes constructing databases of ground-based snow depth and satellite-based passive microwave measurements, designing numerical experiments, analyzing model outputs, and supervising a Ph.D. student. The grant is part of a larger...
- 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, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park, supports research to improve precipitation estimates from cross-track passive microwave sensors in the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite constellation. The $264,077.03 grant will contribute to NASA's Precipitation Measurement Mission by providing more comprehensive precipitation observations from operational satellite instruments. The research...
- This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop a novel algorithm for retrieving ice water path and cloud-top height from combined passive infrared and microwave satellite observations. The goal is to generate long-term, consistent, and reliable global cloud records that can improve understanding of cloud representation in climate and weather models. The grant,...