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, $689,979 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research to enhance understanding of mesoscale climate responses through use of a regional climate model ensemble. Specifically, the University will leverage a suite of regional climate models to simulate mesoscale climate processes and better understand how they may change...
The University of Washington was awarded a $532,360 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research on infrared remote sensing of cooling whitecap foam from March 1, 2021 to February 28, 2023. The Geosciences program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated system through atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Under this award, the University will quantify wave breaking and aeration by using...
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 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 $436,735 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support the numerical investigation and validation of stratified up-side down Langmuir turbulence from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. As part of its mission to strengthen the national scientific enterprise's understanding of the integrated Earth system, the Geosciences program aims to expand...
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 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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $479,495 to the University of Washington from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONVECTIVE UPSCALE GROWTH PROCESSES DURING RELAMPAGO" under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth and ocean sciences to strengthen understanding of the integrated...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences provides $186,556 to the University of Washington for collaborative research probing feedbacks between thermal structure, petrologic transformation, and rheologic evolution within dynamically evolving subduction zones. The research products will advance understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research supported by the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This program aims to...