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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 is a grant awarded by NASA to Florida State University (FSU) for a research proposal to study convective processes in the tropics under the Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics (WAAD) funding opportunity. The research aims to improve understanding and modeling of hurricane genesis and intensity change, utilizing data assimilation techniques that combine wind data from various sources like DAWN lidar, dropwindsondes, CYGNSS, and precipitation estimates. The project also plans to investigate...

The Trustees of Boston University have been awarded a $838,103 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to develop machine learning techniques for predicting global plasma wave distributions and their impact on radiation belt electron flux. Under the four-year research grant, Boston University will extend existing machine learning models to predict the distribution of whistler mode waves, EMIC waves, ULF waves and hiss using solar wind parameters from the...

This is a $131,953 grant awarded by NASA to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to improve the assimilation of aerosol-affected radiances into numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. The objective is to incorporate comprehensive aerosol information from UAH's Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition (SPORT) Center into the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) to better simulate infrared radiances affected by dust aerosols. This research aims to reduce errors in the...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $149,550 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (doing business as Orion Space Solutions), a small business specializing in smallsat manufacturing, space science, and atmospheric research. The contract, titled "MODELING IMPACTS OF COHERENT AND RANDOM TID STRUCTURES ON OTHR PERFORMANCE," focuses on modeling the impacts of ionospheric disturbances on...

This is a $473,450 grant awarded by NASA to Colorado State University (CSU) for research to improve, enhance, and continue support for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission algorithms, conduct validation, and add a third dimension to the precipitation classification module from the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR). The research will focus on analyzing precipitation microphysical parameters such as hydrometeor and precipitation types at global and regional scales using GPM...

This is a $5,596,490.00 definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to Aeris LLC, a small business subchapter S corporation located in Louisville, Colorado. The contract is for the development of a "Next Generation Multi-Scale Chemical and Biological Hazard Transport and Dispersion Model" to support DTRA's Chemical/Biological Technologies Department. The contract was awarded under DTRA's Fiscal Year 2022-2026 Chemical/Biological...

This is a $515,496 grant awarded by the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSC) to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to conduct research aimed at improving the analysis, prediction, and understanding of tornadic thunderstorms. The ultimate goal is to leverage advanced ensemble-based data assimilation techniques to efficiently integrate satellite-based observations from the newly launched GOES-R satellite, along with other conventional and remote-sensing data sources,...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $444,234 grant to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Stony Brook University) to study the challenges of forecasting severe storm development and intensification in the Northeast United States. The research aims to leverage data from the GOES-R satellite, including the Advanced Baseline Imager and Geostationary Lightning Mapper, to improve the identification of convective initiation and track storm...

Sri International was awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for approximately $7.2 million. The contract calls for Sri International to lead a team, including Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara's Climate Hazards Group, to develop technologies enabling analysts to rapidly build models analyzing questions relevant to national and global security. Specifically, the contract...