Project Grant 80NSSC20K0351

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc. in the amount of $374,070 aims to better understand how different types of precipitation in tropical cyclones impact their maximum sustained wind speeds. The 4-year project will use airborne Doppler radar data and numerical weather prediction models to examine how precipitation modes, such as convection and stratiform rain, perturb the kinematic...

This federal Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $655,096 to the University of Oklahoma for research related to improving weather prediction through analysis of polarimetric radar data. The award's stated goal is to advance fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through supporting basic research in atmospheric sciences, as outlined in the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). Over a three-year...

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 Project Grant award of $174,988 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will support the development of a millimeter-wavelength (mmWave) rapid scan image phased array radar technology demonstrator unit. The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of a future ground-based, mobile phased array cloud radar system that could provide high-resolution measurements of cloud processes, which are crucial for understanding the Earth's climate and...

This $1.1 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Pennsylvania State University from April 2022 through March 2025 to improve understanding of supercell thunderstorms and tornado formation. The research team will analyze well-observed tornadic storms using innovative observation and simulation techniques to address fundamental questions about tornado rotation, the role of surface friction and baroclinically-generated...

This three-year, $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research comparing in-situ and polarimetric radar hail observations. Colorado State University will analyze existing dual-polarimetric radar and storm-penetrating aircraft data to improve estimates of hail properties from radar signatures. Researchers will process hydrometeor images and compute polarimetric radar signatures using...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $459,465 to Colorado State University for collaborative research on convective upscale growth processes during the RELAMPAGO field project. The research directly supports the goals of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric sciences. Specifically, Colorado State University will utilize the...

This three-year, $846,782 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to investigate the effect of future climate change on severe convective storms. The awardee, the University of Washington, will combine self-organized maps and idealized storm-scale simulations to examine how severe thunderstorms and tornadoes may change in a warmer climate. Researchers will first use data-based methods with climate model simulations to understand...

This Project Grant award, valued at $406,901, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Colorado State University (CSU). The funding supports a field research program to be conducted in South Korea during the summer of 2024-2025 in collaboration with the Korean Meteorological Agency. The key objectives of this research project are to: (i) characterize the underlying shapes of drop size distributions in warm rain clouds, (ii) retrieve...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $678,911 to the University of Oklahoma under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to analyze data collected during the 2019 and 2022 Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells field campaigns. The University will apply advanced modeling techniques to observational data on supercell thunderstorms to improve understanding of why some develop tornadoes...