Cooperative Agreement NA18NOS0120160

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405), will provide $180,000.00 from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2025 to the University of Washington to explore scientific and technological methodologies to improve the performance of the Salish Sea and Columbia River Operational Forecast System (SSCOFS). The key efforts include...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405), will upgrade the Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (GLOFS) to improve coastal flood modeling and forecasting capabilities along the Lake Ontario shoreline. The $783,134 project will expand the GLOFS model domain to include critical coastal and inland areas, enhance the representation of nearshore...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.431) will develop and test the ability of the regional MOM6 ocean model to reproduce observed fisheries variability in the Northeast Pacific and Northwest Atlantic regions. The $101,358 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of August 31, 2027, will force two marine ecosystem models (BOATS and FEISTY) with hindcasts...

This three-year, $405,234 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund research at the University of Colorado Boulder to develop initialization strategies for the Unified Forecast System coupled atmosphere-ocean numerical forecast model. The goal is to improve probabilistic skill scores for subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts of 2-8 weeks by ensuring initial ensemble perturbations project onto oscillating eigenfunctions of the Koopman and Perron-Frobenius...

This $420,000 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support the development of modeling capabilities to better understand coastal and ocean systems. Awarded under NOAA's Mission-Related Education Awards program (CFDA 11.008), the funding will be used by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science to explore modeling engines and 3D capabilities to provide infrastructure for coastal and ocean models extending from deep ocean waters through the coastal...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), provides $239,278 to the University of Washington to conduct research focused on three main topics: Modeling flood hazards in river delta systems, with a focus on the Nooksack River and understanding the impacts of morphological changes on flooding under future sea level rise scenarios. Developing a conceptual framework for modeling compound flood hazards in...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $794,633 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Washington to develop next-generation atmospheric physics, dynamical core, and/or component models and systems for the Unified Forecast System (UFS). The purpose is to address warm rain biases in the UFS by modifying the Thomson-Eidhammer parameterization to simulate warm rain more accurately. The work aims to improve the skill and efficiency of the coupled...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) project grant of $325,783 awarded to the University of Washington will develop a new model for the upper ocean boundary layer (OSBL) that includes both local and non-local turbulence transports. The project will also create a database of OSBL turbulence properties from Lagrangian float data to tune and validate the new model, as well as serve as a reference for other OSBL modeling efforts. The goal is to significantly...

This $415,802 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) supports research to integrate marine life cycle models for upper Columbia and Snake River spring-run Chinook salmon into ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management. The project, conducted by the University of Washington, will examine the impacts of climate change and trophic structures on salmon...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research grant program (CFDA 11.431), will support a project to improve coastal sea level predictions along the United States coastline. The $175,613 award, effective from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, will be performed by the University of California, Davis. The project aims to identify key ocean processes and their interactions that contribute to sea level...