Project Grant 1917510

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $295,852 Project Grant to the University of Illinois for the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CHEMISTRY-INFORMED ICE NUCLEATION AND GROWTH--INTEGRATED LABORATORY AND MODELING STUDIES" project under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) federal grant program. This 3-year collaborative research project aims to study how the chemistry of ice nucleating particles suspended in solution droplets impacts the ice...

This Project Grant award of $1,392,273.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign. The primary objectives are to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth data for materials science, and enhance the nation's capabilities to predict hailstorms and their impacts. The award will support a 6-week field...

This Project Grant award for $965,500 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for Collection of Hail in the Plains (ICECHIP) field campaign. The goal is to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth information for materials science, and enhance the nation's capabilities to predict hailstorms and their impacts. The University of Colorado will serve as the lead institution,...

This Project Grant award of $650,456 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences supports collaborative research on the relationship between the trade wind inversion layer and the seasonal development of the Southeast Pacific Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The research aims to understand the dynamic and thermodynamic mechanisms that produce the transition from unfavorable to favorable conditions for deep convection and the genesis of the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) award to Purdue University, totaling $219,584, aims to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth information for materials science, and enhance the nation's hailstorm prediction and impact assessment capabilities. The 4-year "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign will utilize a range of modern instrumentation,...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $286,548 supports the continued membership of three universities in the Cloud Consortium at CERN to study atmospheric particle formation and growth. The universities—Carnegie Mellon University, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Colorado Boulder—will utilize the CLOUD chamber facility to conduct research on organic compound generation and their role in nucleating new particles under various natural and...

This $250,771 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on the interaction between Antarctic low clouds and natural aerosols. The research aims to improve global climate model simulations over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean by better representing low-level cloud physics, which have significant impacts on ice surface melt and solar energy transmission. The 4-year project will...

This Project Grant award of $548,981 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AGS-FIRP TRACK 3: IN-SITU COLLABORATIVE EXPERIMENT FOR THE COLLECTION OF HAIL IN THE PLAINS (ICECHIP)" research project. The primary objectives are to: Improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth information for materials science, and enhance the nation's capabilities to predict hailstorms and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will support research to enhance understanding of cloud impacts on the surface energy budget of the Antarctic Peninsula. With total funding of $248,364, the award period is from February 1, 2022 through July 31, 2024. The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as awardee, will use surface-based and satellite measurements to characterize clouds and humidity in the region. Researchers...

This $467,067 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research at Texas A&M University to increase fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms that drive heterogeneous ice nucleation in the atmosphere, with a particular focus on contact nucleation. The research aims to address key science questions around establishing reliable methods for measuring contact ice nucleation, understanding the...