The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $521,484.27 grant to The Ohio State University to support the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) project. CYGNSS has the primary objectives of quantifying wind fields with improved temporal and spatial sampling during the evolution of tropical cyclones and measuring all-weather wind speed within the eyes of the cyclones, in order to enhance the understanding of cyclone physics and improve cyclone forecasting....
This is a $493,452.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Ohio State University. The grant is for research focused on using data from the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) constellation to improve estimates of key hurricane storm parameters, which can lead to improved modeling of hurricane storm surge. This research aims to supplement and enhance the wind speed measurements typically obtained from the...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC18K0712, was granted to The Ohio State University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $445,329 grant is for research to develop and validate new storm parameter estimation approaches using data from the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) to improve storm surge predictions from the Advanced Circulation (ADCIRC) hydrodynamic model. The research aims to demonstrate the utility of GNSS-R...
This federal contract award, NNX15AU99G, is a $781,704.00 grant to The Ohio State University for research on using Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) to study estuary hydrologic dynamics and coastal sea level changes in the Bay of Bengal delta region. The research aims to support the European Space Agency's GEROS-ISS GNSS-R mission on the International Space Station, by refining scientific requirements, developing retrieval algorithms, and validating data products. The...
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, with ID 80NSSC23K1117, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to The Ohio State University for "SUSTAINED LEVEL-2 MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF NASA CSDA SPACEBORNE GNSS-R DERIVED SURFACE WIND.SPEED AND SOIL MOISTURE DATASETS." The $450,000.00 grant-funded research contract has a period of performance ending on May 31, 2026. The Ohio State University, a public research university, is the prime contractor and has no set-aside...
This federal contract award to Purdue University, a non-profit educational institution, is for a NASA Earth Venture Class mission called CYGNSS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System). The $746,686 grant is for research to improve the assimilation of CYGNSS delay-Doppler map (DDM) observations into hurricane forecast models. This will involve extending empirical models relating DDMs to wind speed and direction, and demonstrating the direct assimilation of DDM data into a standard...
This is a $498,019 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Ohio State University for a research project titled "TOWARDS IMPROVED SIMULATION OF COMPOUND FLOODING EVENTS USING CYGNSS AND OTHER NASA METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS". The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2027. The Ohio State University is a public research university in Columbus, Ohio that has a history of providing various goods and services to federal agencies through...
This federal contract award, valued at $339,151.26, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for research related to understanding the role of wind-induced surface flux variability in the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO). The work will leverage data from NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, along with precipitation data and cloud system resolving...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,250,752.00 grant to The Ohio State University to develop an open-source library for designing multi-platform missions with adaptive sensors operating under resource constraints. This work aims to promote the use of adaptive sensors in Earth observing missions by providing new mission planning and simulation tools. The library will progress from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 2 to TRL 4 through a two-year project focused on...