This is a $504,609.82 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to conduct research related to improving dust and storm forecasts over North Africa and the East Atlantic. The project has two main objectives: 1) Assimilate aerosol backscatter, aerosol optical depth, and other observation data to improve dust and storm forecasts, and 2) Determine the impact of dust-radiation-cloud interactions on storm development,...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) supports a research project titled "TEMPEST EXTREMES: INDICATORS OF CHANGE IN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXTREME WEATHER". The $519,927.79 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aims to develop a better understanding of changes in extreme weather phenomena like tropical and extratropical cyclones, atmospheric blocks, and temperature/precipitation extremes. The project will...
This $630,555 federal research grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to assimilate three-dimensional (3D) wind data from airborne and space-based Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) instruments. The goal is to improve weather forecasting and advance the understanding of dust-cloud interactions over the tropics. The work will involve integrating LIDAR wind data from NASA's Doppler Aerosol Wind LIDAR (DAWN)...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $177,138.16 grant to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science to study the relationship between precipitation and environmental factors that influence tropical cyclone formation. The research aims to quantify the evolution of precipitation patterns in developing and non-developing disturbances across different ocean basins, and analyze the impact of precipitation on inner core thermodynamics....
This is a $278,019 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to conduct research related to land surface change and associated natural hazards. The grant supports the development of predictive capabilities and early warning technologies for major earthquakes, focusing on modeling the dynamics of tsunamis using the Tsunami Squares method. The work builds upon previous NASA-funded efforts to model earthquakes,...
This is a $90,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) on September 1, 2020. The primary objective is to establish the genealogy and provenance of important groups of planetary materials, such as iron meteorites and pallasites, using nucleosynthetic isotopic anomalies. This research aims to advance the understanding of how chemical and physical processes in the early solar...
This is a $39,900 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) for a project titled "HIGH-CADENCE UV LIGHT CURVES OF EXTREMELY YOUNG SUPERNOVAE". The award is for research and does not have a small business set-aside designation. UC Davis, a major public land-grant research university, frequently receives federal awards to support scientific research across diverse fields. This grant will enable UC Davis...
The University of California, Davis received a $406,716 research grant from a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center, awarded on February 4, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of August 3, 2026. This grant supports observational and modeling studies examining the relationship between total column water vapor and mean precipitation, with a focus on understanding the rapid onset of precipitation in atmospheric columns that exceed critical moisture thresholds. The research aims to...
This federal contract award, valued at $111,114.43, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University, a public research university in College Station, Texas. The contract aims to quantify the impacts of Saharan dust on the evolution of Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) by combining observational analysis and simulations with coupled atmosphere-ocean models. The research tasks involve analyzing dust and cloud data from NASA satellites and...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to conduct research on low clouds and stratocumulus clouds. The $135,000.00 grant, awarded on September 1, 2020, is aimed at improving the understanding of these cloud types, which cover a significant portion of the Earth's surface, particularly in regions with temperature inversions. UC Davis, a major public land-grant research university, frequently receives...
This is a $104,922.03 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) for a project to improve the ability to predict Atlantic tropical cyclones. The goal is to use data assimilation techniques to incorporate satellite observations of aerosols, such as dust, into numerical weather prediction models in order to better simulate the impact of dust on tropical cyclone genesis and evolution. The project builds on previous research showing the importance of dust-radiation and dust-microphysical processes in affecting tropical cyclone forecasts. UC Davis, a major public research university, is the prime contractor for this effort, which aligns with NASA's objective to improve weather and extreme weather event prediction capabilities. This contract does not have a small business set-aside designation.