Project Grant 19199994424

This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $105,435, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The award will fund a collaborative research project between Central Michigan University and the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) titled "GP-UP: Short-Term Immersive Experience for Atmospheric Science Undergraduates for Retention and Community-Building." The primary goal of the project is to address the critical...

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 five-year, $622,775 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's National Center for Atmospheric Research to generate actionable climate intervention scenarios. The research team will advance the scientific understanding of portfolio approaches combining mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation management strategies to limit global warming to 1.5...

Summary This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $454,308 in funding to Carnegie Mellon University from August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2030. The award supports development and validation of new parameterizations for atmospheric new particle formation (NPF) that account for temperature and atmospheric ion effects. The research will produce improved climate model...

This $320,091 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research effort between Central Michigan University and the University of Northern Colorado. The project aims to develop and evaluate a short-term, immersive field experience called the Student Training for Observational Research in Meteorology (STORM) program. This one-week experience is designed to engage undergraduate students at risk of attrition from...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $424,952 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to study the connections between tropical heating, planetary-scale stationary waves, and extratropical storm track activity. The study, to be conducted by two Ph.D. students at Stony Brook University, aims to demonstrate how tropical deep convection and variations in zonal mean temperature gradients influence the behavior of extratropical...

This $425,395 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into understanding low-cloud feedbacks using large-eddy simulation of spatially developing cloud transitions from February 15, 2022 through January 31, 2027. Funded through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the research aims to address limitations in modeling low-cloud behavior over large areas by developing a hierarchy of large-eddy simulation model configurations at different scales. Several experiments are...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $470,539 over a 3-year period from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2027 to The Pennsylvania State University to conduct collaborative research on extratropical storm track dynamics. The primary objectives are to: Demonstrate linkages between tropical deep convection, planetary-scale stationary wave activity, temperature gradients, and extratropical storm track activity. Identify the physical...

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 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $493,422 over 3 years to The Trustees of Columbia University for a collaborative research project to diagnose global climatic responses to large volcanic eruptions. The key products or services to be delivered through this funding include: Providing proxy-based global estimates of spatiotemporal changes in temperature and...