The University of Washington will receive $920,171 from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research on convection, clouds, and sea surface temperature from November 2021 through October 2024. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, this three-year Project Grant will support the University's study of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $695,977 project grant to the University of Washington for research titled "Nearshore Plume Dynamics: Airborne Observations and Modeling of Surf-Shelf Exchange." The three-year award runs from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The University of Washington will utilize the funding to conduct airborne observations and modeling of the exchange between surf zone and continental shelf waters. This work will...
The University of Washington was awarded a three-year, $533,419 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports research titled "Precipitation and Coalesence Scavenging in Shallow Southern Ocean Clouds" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. This Project...
The University of Washington was awarded a three-year, $137,893 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on the experimental and numerical study of bed shear stress and turbulent boundary layer structure induced by breaking-wave-generated vortices. The research funded through this award will strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean...
The University of Washington will receive $740,633 in funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences through the agency's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support the project "WAVES, RAIN, AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS AT OCEAN STATION PAPA" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. Under this three-year Project Grant, the University of Washington will collect and analyze oceanographic data related to waves, rainfall, and sea surface roughness conditions at...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $164,729 two-year Project Grant to Columbia University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) on March 1, 2021. The grant supports collaborative research investigating the relationship between ocean surface gravity-capillary waves, surface-layer hydrodynamics, and air-sea momentum flux. The Geosciences program seeks to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences....
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences provides $147,140 to the University of Miami for a collaborative research project titled "A Laboratory Experiment to Quantify the Impact of Whitecap Foam on Air-Sea Momentum Transfer." The funding supports experimental work at the University's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science campus in Key Biscayne, Florida from July 2021 through June 2024. The research aims to strengthen understanding...
The University of Washington will receive $296,508 under a two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant will support research into the vertical transport of buoyant, non-spherical particles in the wind-mixed ocean surface boundary layer from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. This work falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen the national scientific enterprise through expanded fundamental knowledge and...
The University of Washington was awarded a two-year, $232,025 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support research into the equatorial transport of nitrous oxide from the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. As part of its mission to strengthen the national scientific enterprise's understanding of the integrated Earth system, the Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of...
This $129,932 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to examine the effects of surface wave direction and wave breaking on transport and air-sea interaction processes. The University of Rhode Island will conduct theoretical, numerical, laboratory, and observational studies to advance the understanding of ocean surface wave geometry, kinematics, dynamics, and statistics, and their role in the coupling between the ocean...