This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $831,032 to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York to conduct research on insolation gradients and their impacts on Eastern Mediterranean aridity and winter storm dynamics. The project aims to understand how radiative forcing from greenhouse gas increases and orbital cycles affect precipitation patterns in...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $552,562 Project Grant to Columbia University under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of July 15, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research between Columbia University researchers and the Natural Environment Research Council in the United Kingdom to enhance understanding of trans-hemispheric climate variability through analysis of a novel...
This three-year, $511,918 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) funds research to develop a new framework for advancing climate model representations of cloud and convective processes. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct fully-coupled, isotope-enabled climate simulations for the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene, and Pre-Industrial periods using an ensemble of cloud and convective parameter sets. Paleoclimate data assimilation will...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $119,293 to James Madison University for collaborative research on quantitative paleoclimatology of the East African monsoon from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through expanded knowledge of atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the university will conduct collaborative research to...
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....
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Sponsored Projects Administration Division (Columbia University) was awarded a $117,062 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research on the coupling mechanism of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation through cloud-radiative feedback. The award period is from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. As part of the grant, Columbia University researchers will...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $390,804 Project Grant to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research into atmospheric lakes of vapor drifting over the east coast of Africa from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $565,595 Project Grant to Columbia University from May 2021 to April 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funds an undergraduate research experience program titled "REU SITE: Research Experience for Undergraduates: Interdisciplinary Cutting-Edge Research Though the Analysis of Global Data." The program will provide research opportunities for undergraduates to conduct interdisciplinary projects...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences totals $156,447 to support research entitled "Collaborative Research: Processes Determining the Climatology of Atmospheric Unstable Layers." The funding will advance understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric sciences, as outlined in the objectives of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). Specifically, the grant enables...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $646,193 will fund research into the impact of Arctic amplification on midlatitude circulation from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The award was made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research into the integrated Earth system. The grantee, Columbia University, will examine how Arctic sea ice loss and surface warming influence atmospheric circulation patterns and extreme weather events in the Northern Hemisphere....