Project Grant 1744587

This $304,752 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs award will fund research to improve climate model simulations of sea ice physics and feedbacks through analysis of observations from the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate field campaign. The University of Washington will integrate spatially and temporally coordinated field observations with single column and global climate modeling to develop parameterizations that more accurately...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $560,052 to Colorado State University to improve seasonal sea ice extent predictability in the Arctic Ocean. The research aims to use ocean heat patterns and the timing of autumn sea ice freeze up from reanalysis data and the CESM2 Large Ensemble to evaluate which environmental variables most significantly contribute to sea ice loss. The grant...

This Project Grant award of $335,701 from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will fund research by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to study the oceanographic drivers of nearshore and landfast sea ice seasonal transitions in the Arctic. The key objectives are to (1) understand the coupled evolution of the ocean wave field and nearshore ice, and (2) identify oceanographic variables that destabilize landfast ice and precondition breakup. The research will...

This $513,000 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant supports collaborative research by the University of Colorado to assess the causal influence of atmospheric opacity (clouds) and sea ice thickness on Arctic warming over the past 40 years and into the near future. Key deliverables include quantifying the impact of these factors on Arctic warming rates using a novel modeling approach,...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $299,817 project grant to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. to conduct collaborative research from November 2021 through October 2024. The research aims to improve understanding of how amplified Arctic warming may influence extreme weather patterns in midlatitudes, as supported by the NSF Polar Programs CFDA #47.078. This program seeks to strengthen polar research and understanding through basic science best...

This $136,629 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support collaborative research to understand regional modes of variability in the Atlantic Arctic. The research aims to identify and quantify interdecadal (20-30 years) and multidecadal (50-90 years) patterns of climate variability in the region by integrating data from various sources, including meteorological measurements, historical observations, and climate proxy data from natural...

This $369,854 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs project grant will support research to further understanding of Arctic sea ice variability in the 20th century. Specifically, the University of Washington will produce a new, physically realistic reconstruction of Arctic sea ice and sea surface temperatures during the 20th century. This reconstruction will be used to study Arctic sea ice during the early 20th century warming period from 1915 to 1940, when the Arctic warmed...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $194,921 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado) to conduct research on climate variability in the Atlantic Arctic region. The research aims to quantify natural patterns of regional climate variability, including interdecadal (20-30 years) and multidecadal (50-90 years) cycles, by integrating data from various sources such as meteorological measurements,...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $401,241 will fund research at the University of Washington from May 2022 through April 2025 to advance understanding of Arctic sea ice interactions with tropospheric polar vortices and cyclones. The grant was awarded under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), which supports basic research in polar regions. Specifically, the researchers will investigate coupling between tropospheric polar vortices, Arctic cyclones, and...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks received a three-year, $585,834 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs to conduct collaborative research on atmospheric controls of moisture extremes over Greenland. The grant was awarded under the Polar Programs program (CFDA 47.078), which supports basic research best conducted in or related to the polar regions. Through statistical analyses of historical atmospheric data and climate model experiments using CESM versions...