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This is a $513,248 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is focused on improving the representation of warm cloud microphysics in Earth system models, such as the GISS Model E, GEOS, and CESM. The research aims to better constrain model parameters using a...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $361,063 grant to the University of Maryland, College Park to support research on air-sea interaction at the ocean submesoscale level. The research will analyze new high-resolution observational data from NASA's Earth Venture Suborbital-3 Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment to improve understanding of physical mechanisms driving air-sea coupling at horizontal scales of 0.1-10 km. Additionally, the University will evaluate...

This is a one-year extension of a collaborative research program between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Michigan. The program, called MSEC, is focused on understanding solar eruptions and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in order to develop predictive capabilities. For the extension, the key tasks are to incorporate additional eruption mechanism options into the MSEC model, and to quantify the model's space weather forecasting capabilities by running it on observed events....

The University of Michigan will integrate the Inner Magnetosphere Particle Transport and Acceleration Model (IMPTAM) into the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) under a $98,901 grant from NASA. As the prime contractor, the University will deliver a single source version of the IMPTAM physics-based code to run in near real-time and on demand at the CCMC. The CCMC is a NASA-funded multi-agency partnership that provides modeling services and tools to support space weather research....

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $445 thousand definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Solaero Technologies Corporation. The contract is for the development of an improved ionospheric small-scale structure model to characterize skywave high frequency signal propagation paths under the MASE Project SEEM Program solicitation. Per the solicitation, the contractor will design, develop, implement and test a code module to interpret scattering...

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 $249,898 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado to develop an improved radiative transfer model for processing data from passive and active microwave remote sensing instruments. The model will incorporate advanced capabilities to handle complex hydrometeors and cloud structures, improving applications in weather forecasting, climate science, and satellite data assimilation. Key enhancements include...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $599k grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, operating as the National Center for Atmospheric Research, to conduct several observational studies of atmospheric circulation and variability based on long-term stratospheric water vapor and temperature measurements from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder satellite instrument. The studies will analyze MLS data to provide new estimates of...

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...

This $682,616 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Wisconsin System, operating through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division, to develop a satellite-constrained meteorological modeling platform for air quality assessment modeling along the Lake Michigan shoreline. The modeling platform will use the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and incorporate high-resolution regional nests, as well as assimilate NASA...