Cooperative Agreement CTT13G006

This $345,667 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to improve understanding of the effects of stratospheric polar vortex disruptions on tropospheric circulation and surface weather patterns. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand knowledge of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric and ocean sciences research, the award will be completed by July 2025. The grantee, Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., will conduct data...

This $189,992 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431), funds a project to develop advanced diagnostics for analyzing the dynamics of low-level atmospheric jets (LLJs) worldwide. The key deliverables include: Spatial and frequency distribution diagnostics to validate models' ability to simulate LLJs, which are a critical moisture source for precipitation patterns in the central...

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,...

This three-year $400,242 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into the interactions between easterly waves and wind jets in the current and future climate of the east Pacific. The principal investigator and one graduate student at Colorado State University will conduct eddy kinetic energy and vorticity budget calculations to elucidate the effects of Central American gap jets on developing easterly waves. They will also use...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to Care Weather Technologies Inc., a for-profit corporate entity, to develop VEERY, a nanosatellite-based scatterometer system. The purpose of this Phase I project is to demonstrate the feasibility of key improvements to Care Weather's attitude determination and control systems (ADCS), radio, and radar technologies, which are...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) provides $500,000.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory to continue development and demonstration of a low-cost, standalone Mode S enhanced surveillance aircraft-derived atmospheric observation system. The project aims to advance the capabilities of this observation technology and meet operational...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $558,265 Project Grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431). The goal of this 3-year project is to use large ensembles of global climate models to develop near-term and long-term projections of changes in extratropical cyclones and their associated extreme weather events over the U.S. This research aims to provide stakeholder communities...

This $526,119 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program on February 15, 2024 will support research by the University of California, Berkeley to develop new scale-aware turbulence parameterizations for high-resolution weather prediction models. The goal is to improve the accuracy of weather and regional climate forecasts in the "gray zone" between 1-10 km grid resolutions, where traditional modeling approaches break down. The research aims to...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $189,307 Cooperative Agreement under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) to Purdue University to conduct research on understanding and predicting high-impact extreme weather events such as heatwaves, cold spells, and heavy precipitation episodes. The key focus of the project is to investigate the role of extratropical Rossby wave dynamics as a critical physical process connecting large-scale atmospheric...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,311 Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T). This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant will fund a project to investigate the role of inverse energy cascade in tornadogenesis, with the goal of helping the National Weather Service (NWS) better assess which supercell thunderstorms have a high...