Project Grant 80NSSC24K0783

This $196,453 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the downward progression of temperature anomalies during sudden stratospheric warmings. Specifically, the University of Colorado Boulder will analyze characteristics of temperature anomalies and atmospheric waves using satellite and model data, conduct numerical simulations of wave propagation, and investigate potential pre-conditioning through changes in the zero-wind line height via ensemble simulations....

This three-year, $289,049 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research exploring the response of the magnetosphere to terrestrial weather. Specifically, the awardee Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC (dba Orion Space Solutions) will investigate the extent to which sudden stratospheric warmings can impact the spatial and temporal variability of the upper ionosphere and magnetosphere using the Multiscale...

This three-year, $178,427 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research exploring the response of the magnetosphere to terrestrial weather. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research will collaborate with other institutions to investigate how sudden stratospheric warmings impact the spatial and temporal variability of the upper ionosphere and magnetosphere using the Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment model....

Under a $717,310 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science will conduct research on using satellite imagery to study internal gravity waves in the atmosphere. The project aims to develop and automate image processing algorithms to measure and characterize the properties of these waves, which can modulate cloud formation and impact Earth's heat budget....

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 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...

This Project Grant award of $578,828 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences was provided to Predictive Science Incorporated, a San Diego-based research and analysis company, for the project "SHINE: How Does Surface Flux Evolution Determine the Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Corona and Inner Heliosphere?". The project, running from May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2028, aims to better understand the connection between the solar...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $523,833 will fund research into impacts of atmospheric waves and geomagnetic disturbances on space weather through April 2025. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to increase understanding of the integrated Earth system, the awardee Clemson University will collaborate with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Virginia...

This $188,835 Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support research to determine how the breaking of mountain waves affects space weather approximately 100-200 miles above the Earth's surface. The award will fund a collaborative research effort by The Johns Hopkins University to: 1) Characterize the gravity wave characteristics and sources of concentric traveling ionospheric disturbances over the continental U.S. and...

This $707,741 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research into dynamical mechanisms for midlatitude-arctic interactions and associated weather extremes in a warming climate. The University of California, Los Angeles will examine several interrelated dynamical mechanisms through three tasks from April 15, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The researchers will analyze linkages between stratospheric...