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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $314,538 grant to Advanced Heliophysics, a non-profit research organization, to conduct research associating different types of solar wind flows with their regions of origin on the sun and exploring how rigidly and non-rigidly rotating coronal holes contribute to solar wind. The grant, which runs from September 2020 through September 2023, supports Advanced Heliophysics' efforts to precisely characterize...

This is a $348,562 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the scaling and structure of the solar wind electron distribution. The project aims to analyze solar wind data to uncover the scaling relations of the "strahl", a narrow anisotropic population of suprathermal electrons that plays a significant role in the global energy balance and potential instabilities in the solar wind plasma. The research will...

This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, aims to improve the accuracy of solar wind forecasting through enhancements to the input data used by the operational WSA/ENLIL model. The $283,270.65 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will fund research to apply a new calibration to the Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) magnetic field data...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $214,177.33 grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to improve the quality of heliospheric simulations and space weather forecasting capabilities. The project will build upon the existing Wang-Sheeley-Arge (WSA)-ENLIL model used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for operational forecasts of solar wind and coronal mass ejection (CME) propagation. UAH will utilize its Multi-Scale...

This federal contract award, NNX17AD37G, was granted to the Regents of the University of Michigan to conduct a three-year spectroscopic investigation into the origin of the solar wind and its dependence on the solar cycle. The $328,951 grant will allow the university to use data from instruments like CDS, SUMER, EIS, and IRIS to study the properties of equatorial and polar coronal holes and monitor their response to solar cycle changes from 1996 to 2015. The research aims to address key...

This federal grant award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) supports research into the dynamics of the solar wind, specifically investigating how the kinetic coupling of electrons and ions affects the large-scale behavior of the radially expanding solar wind. The research aims to address the "solar wind isotropy problem" - an observed phenomenon where the temperatures of solar wind electrons and protons become nearly isotropic, which has not been fully explained...

This is a $901,205 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Predictive Science Incorporated, a for-profit research and analysis firm, for a project focused on understanding the solar wind and its impact on space weather. The grant will fund research into fundamental questions about the origin and acceleration of the solar wind, its connection to smaller-scale solar phenomena, and the partitioning of the wind into fast and slow streams. The work will involve...

This is a $146,080.04 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of New Mexico (UNM) for a three-year research effort to improve the understanding of the physics underlying the origins and acceleration of the solar wind. The solar wind is an outflow of ionized gas from the sun's corona that can impact and damage satellites and space systems near Earth. The research aims to better model the solar wind's potential hazards to...

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,976.00 grant to the University of Colorado, an accredited public research university, to further develop and validate a solar wind visualization tool that can enhance space weather forecasting capabilities. The tool, which has reached Technology Readiness Level 4, will undergo additional testing and integration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center and the UK Met...

This federal contract award, valued at $312,161.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Florida Institute of Technology, Inc. (Florida TECH) to develop new methods and tools for understanding the relationship between single-point spacecraft measurements and the three-dimensional physical properties of the solar wind in the inner heliosphere. The primary objective is to produce synthetic data simulating measurements from instruments on board the upcoming...