Project Grant 2103820

This National Science Foundation project grant of $291,231 supports collaborative research on coastal cloud chemistry during the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment campaign. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will leverage recent instrumentation developments to augment the Department of Energy's campaign conducted in La Jolla, California from February 2023 to January 2024. Specifically, the University of California, Los Angeles will utilize...

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 three-year, $348,116 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the continued membership of three universities in the Cloud Consortium at CERN. The consortium studies the chemistry and physics that drive new particle formation and growth in Earth's atmosphere using a 26 cubic meter stainless steel chamber with precise temperature and humidity control. Over the grant period, the awardee Carnegie Mellon University and sub-awardees...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $128,741 to Carnegie Mellon University to support its participation in the international HALO-South field campaign. The goal is to better understand cloud and aerosol dynamics over the Southern Ocean, which is critical for improving global climate models. This effort will involve forecasting aerosol concentrations, analyzing field data, and training graduate students. The award will fund...

This three-year, $454,659 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the continued membership of three universities in the Cloud Consortium at CERN. The Consortium will study the chemistry and physics that drive new particle formation and growth in Earth's atmosphere using a 26 cubic meter stainless steel chamber. Over the grant period, research will focus on chemical mechanisms generating extremely low volatility organic compounds that can...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $532,712, supports collaborative research to investigate the physical processes underlying transitions in marine stratocumulus cloud cover over the eastern North Atlantic region. The research aims to develop a causal framework to better understand the complex interactions that drive changes in cloud structure, from continuous stratocumulus layers to more broken...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $868,533 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to conduct research on identifying and reducing structural errors in parameterized warm rain processes. The research aims to analyze observations from the DOE ARM EPCAPE and ENA field campaigns to understand the processes related to initial precipitation formation, radiative effects, and subsequent...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will fund collaborative research to improve understanding of spatial variability in low-level stratocumulus clouds and how this variability impacts cloud and precipitation processes. The $377,905 award to The Trustees of Columbia University will support the use of large-eddy simulations and detailed cloud observations to identify microphysical sources of variability and methods to...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $195,299 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research characterizing the cloud formation properties of secondary organic aerosol formed from aqueous multiphase chemical processes. The research will be conducted from October 2021 through September 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research into the integrated Earth system...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $399,905 provides funding from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop a new poloidal convection model and multi-scale description of moist circulations in tall cumulus clouds. The University of California, Davis will test and further develop the poloidal model framework to incorporate both ascending and descending air motions within convective clouds. This will allow for new understanding of cloud...