Training Grant 80NSSC18K1402

This is a $135,000 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas A&M University. The objective is to improve the understanding and prediction of convective systems associated with tropical propagating modes in the East Pacific using NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite data and the MERRA-2 reanalysis. The project aims to characterize the dominant tropical propagating modes in the East Pacific, determine their interannual variation through El Niño events, and assess the synoptic variability of the MERRA-2 reanalysis. This award does not utilize any set-aside designations. Texas A&M University is the prime contractor, and the project is being performed at their campus in College Station, Texas.