Cooperative Agreement 5802063001

Summary The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), through its COMET (Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training) program, received a $12.53 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Meteorologic and Hydrologic Modernization Development program (CFDA 11.467). The award, effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2030, supports the development and deployment of multi-hazard early warning...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), operating as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), received a $189,974 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) to enhance the Model Diagnostics Task Force (MDTF) software package with process-oriented diagnostics (POD) capabilities. The award, effective from May 1, 2025,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) received a Cooperative Agreement worth $129,253 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431), effective May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2028. This award supports the continued advancement of the Model Diagnostics Task Force (MDTF), a software package designed to enhance model evaluation capabilities across the atmospheric...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) provides $960,000 to develop a prototype climate service system that will deliver information on climate-related risks to decision-makers across various sectors. The award period is from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028. The proposed system will leverage existing infrastructure and new cloud-based platforms to provide climate...

This three-year, $520,660 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to constrain cloud and convective parameterizations in climate models using paleoclimate data assimilation. Specifically, the awardee, the University of Arizona, will conduct fully coupled, isotope-enabled climate simulations for the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene, and pre-industrial periods using an ensemble of cloud and convective parameter sets. Paleoclimate...

This three-year $719,730 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to constrain cloud and convective parameterizations in climate models using paleoclimate data assimilation. The awardee, William Paterson University of New Jersey, will conduct fully-coupled, isotope-enabled climate simulations for the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene, and Pre-Industrial periods using an ensemble of cloud and convective parameter sets....

This $419,055 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) supports a collaborative research effort between the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Texas A&M University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project aims to advance understanding of how increased model resolution can improve seasonal to decadal predictability of sea surface temperatures in the...

This three-year, $511,918 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds research to develop a new framework for advancing climate model representations of cloud and convective processes. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct fully-coupled, isotope-enabled climate simulations for the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene, and Pre-Industrial periods using an ensemble of cloud and convective parameter sets. Paleoclimate data assimilation will...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) provides $239,986 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to advance the understanding of climate prediction models and improve seasonal to decadal climate forecasting. The project aims to explore how increased horizontal model resolution can enhance predictive skill for sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific and related impacts on...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory will provide aircraft-derived atmospheric observations to improve weather forecasting models under a $520,500 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through the award's two-year period, MIT Lincoln Laboratory will extract meteorological data from commercial aircraft equipped with Mode S transponders using airport surveillance radars. This effort aims to increase the number, spatial resolution,...