Project Grant 80NSSC23K1472

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program has awarded a $259,253 Project Grant to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to investigate the impacts of sea breeze and steep surface gravity waves on nearshore air-sea fluxes. The overarching goal is to advance understanding of how ocean surface waves mediate the exchange of momentum and heat between the atmosphere and ocean, especially over spatial and temporal scales that are currently under-resolved by observations and models....

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $197,506 to support collaborative research on rapid pilot observations of enhanced near-bottom equatorial turbulence in the deep Pacific Ocean. The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as awardee, will leverage an existing mooring array at 140°W to add instrumentation to moorings planned for 0.5°N and 3°N...

This $237,229 federal Project Grant was awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The grant will fund research to provide an "unprecedented view of ocean surface currents" over a 3-year period from March 2025 to February 2028. The project aims to advance scientific understanding of ocean dynamics and develop new observational...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,354,056 to the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography to jointly implement a new measurement technique called distributed acoustic sensing. This technique will generate high-resolution (10 m in space, minutes in time) images of ocean temperature and current velocity fields above a 34-km cable laid on the seafloor off the Azores islands. The goal is to...

This three-year, $358,347 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to determine the role of ocean dynamics in Atlantic sea surface temperature variations using coupled climate models. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will lead a collaborative effort to develop a hierarchy of coupled climate models within the Community Earth System Model version 2 platform. Comparisons between model pairs that disable specific oceanic...

The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography was awarded a $749,367 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431). The project aims to improve understanding of the processes driving oxygen (O2) variability and change in the Northeastern Pacific, which is critical for enhancing ecosystem habitat predictions in Large Marine Ecosystems like the California...

This $556,139 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research grant program (CFDA 11.459) aims to improve the Global Ocean Reanalysis (GLORE) system. The key objectives are to: Upgrade GLORE to replace the outdated Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) as NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's real-time ocean monitoring tool. Enhance GLORE's ocean and sea ice data assimilation capabilities to advance...

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $663,712 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This grant will fund a 3-year collaborative research project to study the role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean. The project will conduct controlled laboratory experiments and state-of-the-art numerical simulations to test the hypothesis that coupling between waves and wind-driven currents is necessary...

This $240,084 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research federal grant program (CFDA 11.431) supports a collaborative research effort led by Texas A&M University, in partnership with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The project aims to advance the understanding of climate model resolution and its impact on the predictability of sea surface temperature in...

Northwest Research Associates, Inc., dba Nwra, was awarded a $700,510 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences on March 1, 2021, with a completion date of February 28, 2025. The award is part of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen and enhance the national scientific enterprise through the expansion of fundamental knowledge and increased understanding of the integrated...