The Ohio State University's Office of Sponsored Programs has been awarded a $942,218 research grant (23-SWOTST23-0069) by a civilian federal agency to advance the accuracy of discharge measurements for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. The project, titled "Enabling Exploration of Earth's Water Cycle: Moving the Needle on SWOT Discharge Accuracy Through Ground-Breaking Advances," will be performed in Columbus, Ohio, with a completion date of August 1, 2028. This...
This is a $409,679.64 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Ohio State University (OSU) to support the development and validation of algorithms for estimating river discharge in the Arctic using data from the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission and existing ArcticDEM elevation data. The grant will fund work to characterize the accuracy of river height, width, and slope measurements from ArcticDEM, evaluate flow law models...
This federal contract award to The Ohio State University, with a ceiling value of $714,403.44, supports the comprehensive validation of algorithms for estimating river discharge across different river types. The goal is to develop accurate discharge estimation capabilities in support of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, a key transformational capability for terrestrial hydrology. The work will leverage various data sources, including AirSWOT measurements, field data, SWOT...
This federal contract award to The Ohio State University, with a ceiling value of $104,871.57, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to analyze the impacts of the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission on understanding global runoff patterns. The project aims to determine how current in-situ and remote sensing data can explain variability in runoff characteristics across global watersheds, and how the SWOT mission's river discharge...
This federal contract award to The Ohio State University (OSU) is for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, which will measure river height, width, and slope globally for rivers wider than 100 meters. The $520,659.44 grant-funded research contract was awarded on July 23, 2020 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, with a performance period through July 22, 2024. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As a prime...
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 $150,790.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Illinois to support research on integrating reservoirs into the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission's global surface water storage and discharge monitoring. The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 13, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. As a prime contractor, the University of Illinois has extensive experience delivering research, products,...
This document describes revisions to the scope and budget for a NASA research grant awarded to Northeastern University. The $352,748.60 grant, with an ultimate completion date of January 25, 2021, was originally proposed under project number 15-SWOT15-0034 and has been selected for funding. The key changes from the original proposal include: (1) fewer and U.S.-only study basins, (2) reduced efforts for developing new reservoir dynamics, and (3) increased focus on flood hazard/risk application in...
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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $135,000 training grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) through its Office of Research Administration division. The contract supports a research study to assess the performance of different data assimilation approaches for inferring river discharge from surface water elevation measurements collected by the upcoming NASA/CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, which is scheduled to...
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 assessment, and 4) contribute to SWOT mission planning and scientific development. The $109,192.98 award will fund research on integrating lateral contributions and longitudinal controls along river reaches to improve SWOT discharge estimates across study basins including the Mackenzie, Sacramento, Mississippi, and Amazon rivers. The research builds on the university's previous SWOT experience and will collaborate with CNES researchers on joint proposals. There is no set-aside designation for this grant, which has an ultimate completion date of December 16, 2020.