This is a $588,811 grant awarded by NASA to the Regents of the University of Michigan to examine the frequency-wavenumber spectra and predictability of internal tides and the internal gravity wave continuum in high-resolution ocean simulations. The work aims to improve the accuracy of modeled barotropic and baroclinic tides, which have implications for satellite altimetry data used for oceanographic studies. The grant focuses on enhancing the Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation (NCODA) scheme...
This is a $858,702.00 federal grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct research on mesoscale eddies, internal waves, and solitons in the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, global models, and downscaled regional models. The grant is for research and development work, with a period of performance through August 4, 2028. The University of Michigan is a prominent state-owned research university...
This is a $629,489.67 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin for research related to the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. The purpose is to develop advanced ocean state estimation techniques to take advantage of the increased resolution, accuracy, and coverage provided by SWOT data, while addressing challenges in interpreting the new measurements. The University of Texas at Austin is the prime...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $664,494 grant to the University of Michigan to examine the predictability of stationary and non-stationary internal tides in the U.S. Navy's global hydrodynamical system. The contract is a research grant with a completion date of June 3, 2025. The University of Michigan, a U.S. state government and educational institution, has previously received prime and subcontract awards from various federal agencies, including the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $353,970 grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to support research and development activities related to the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. The tasks to be completed under this grant include implementing and testing a data assimilation framework, producing and evaluating SWOT Level 4 data products, testing the use of derived runoff products for hydrologic model calibration, and assessing...
The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded a $767,092 research grant by a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center to investigate the impact of changes in sea level and ocean stratification on tides and lunar orbital parameters. The work will be performed at the university's Ann Arbor, Michigan campus through the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division. The award is unclassified and was not issued under any small business set-aside designation, indicating an open...
This is a $350,947.23 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The objective of the research is to provide guidance to the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) project to achieve the best possible measurements of ocean surface slope for applications in marine geophysics. The SWOT altimeter mission has the potential to significantly improve gravity accuracy and spatial...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to New York University (NYU) for a project titled "Fluxes of Heat, Carbon and Oxygen at SWOT Scales." The grant, valued at $837,314.74, aims to investigate the underlying dynamics that control lateral and vertical fluxes of tracers at the submesoscale, which will be observed by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite. The project also seeks to develop methods to infer vertical...
This is a grant award to The Ohio State University from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research related to improving discharge estimates from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission. The research objectives are to: 1) integrate lateral inflows into a SWOT discharge algorithm, 2) integrate lake/reservoir dynamics into a SWOT discharge algorithm, 3) develop a SWOT modeling application for community water resources planning and flood...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington to determine if river discharge and subsurface river dynamics can be described from a Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) measurement of the surface height anomaly within an estuary and at the river mouth. The $103,758.67 grant involves a laboratory experiment, analysis of field data, and development of an analytical model to predict...
This is a $249,013.45 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan for a research project titled "MODELING INTERNAL WAVE SIGNALS AND THEIR PREDICTABILITY FOR SWOT". The objective is to characterize the global internal tide and internal wave fields, and their predictability, to improve the accuracy of modeled tides and internal tides for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. The research will utilize high-resolution ocean simulations and data assimilation techniques to quantify the separate contributions of internal tides, non-tidal internal gravity waves, and lower frequency motions to sea surface height. The project will also examine internal tide predictability and the impact of aliasing on internal tide corrections and spectral energy fluxes. This award is not associated with a set-aside designation.