This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for a research project titled "Towards Improved Estimates of Cloud Feedbacks Using High Resolution Climate Simulations and CERES Observations". The contract has a period of performance ending on October 3, 2026. CSU, which is designated as a U.S. State Government, 1862 Land Grant College, and Educational Institution, will be the prime contractor for this...
This is a $119,959.24 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) to study the transition zone between clear and cloudy air. The grant is part of CSU's ongoing work with federal agencies like NASA, providing research, technical assistance, and educational services related to topics such as satellite data analysis, climate modeling, and meteorology. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. As a public land-grant...
Colorado State University was awarded a $374,732 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the observability of radiative feedbacks and their dependence on changing surface temperature patterns. The research aims to quantify the realism of climate models' representation of top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiation and sea surface temperature (SST) patterns, assess the influence of local TOA radiation and SST biases on models' ability to reproduce observed...
Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division received a $434,819 grant award from a civilian federal agency (Shared Services Center) on October 1, 2020, for research on three-dimensional ensemble-based retrieval methods for highly heterogeneous clouds. The project, which concluded September 30, 2024, addresses the critical role clouds play in determining Earth's radiative and hydrological budgets and their influence on climate system forcing and sensitivity. As a prominent...
This is a $77,725.56 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University to investigate errors in the modeling of Arctic clouds in climate models and the implications for climate change simulations. The project aims to quantify, describe, and understand the statistical linkages between Arctic clouds and atmospheric dynamics, thermodynamics, and sea ice properties, in order to pinpoint the model processes responsible for inaccurate cloud...
This is a $399,897 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for research on the "Dynamics of Tropical Convective Organization in Weak Balanced Rotation". The grant, which runs through July 2026, will support CSU's expertise in areas like climate science, meteorology, and atmospheric research. As a leading research institution and land-grant university, CSU has a strong track record of securing competitive federal...
This is a $134,499.67 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Colorado State University (CSU) for research to improve satellite retrievals of high-latitude precipitation by better constraining drop size distributions. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2019, with a completion date of January 26, 2023. Colorado State University, a public land-grant research university, is performing the work through its Sponsored Programs division....
This is a $1,438,971.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University on June 15, 2020. The grant is for research on changes in the tropical West Pacific water cycle and inconsistencies between observed evaporation, precipitation, and water vapor divergence. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is scheduled to be completed by June 14, 2025. Colorado State University, through its Sponsored Programs division, has extensive...
Colorado State University, through its Sponsored Programs division, has been awarded a $497,778 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research related to the transition from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) single satellite era to a radiometer constellation focus. The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, will run through June 18, 2025. Colorado State University is a public land-grant research...
This is a $367,584 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for research in support of the Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) program. The primary research objectives include studying the variability of drop size distribution and column microphysics related to tropical convection, as well as validating the microphysical parameterizations in the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model using in-situ and radar data. The research...
This is a $134,970.63 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Colorado State University (CSU) to study the role of clouds in forcing interannual to decadal tropical sea surface temperature (SST) variability driven by extratropical atmospheric variability. The goal is to improve understanding of how cloud feedbacks contribute to this pathway connecting extratropical and tropical climate processes, which may impact long-term climate predictions and regional forecasts. The research will leverage NASA's cloud observation and reanalysis data products. It does not have a set-aside designation. CSU, a public land-grant research university, has a history of providing research, technical assistance, and educational services to various federal agencies through its Sponsored Programs division.