The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc. a $767,973 Project Grant under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research related to mesosphere and lower thermosphere dynamics studies. The grant funding will support studies employing the Southern Argentina Agile Meteor Radar (SAAMER), correlative measurements, and modeling from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024....
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 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $748,570 to Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc. for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NEW PATHWAYS TO ENHANCED TURBULATION AND MIXING VIA KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY TUBE AND KNOT DYNAMICS." The research aims to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth system processes through basic research in atmospheric sciences, as outlined in the...
This National Science Foundation project grant totaling $539,588 will support research by Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc. to model new Kelvin-Helmholtz instability dynamics and their impacts on turbulence and mixing in the middle atmosphere. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the awardee will utilize high-resolution modeling and observational data to identify "tube and knot" instability processes thought to enhance eddy diffusion and constituent...
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 University of Alabama in Huntsville received a $349,440 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences on August 15, 2021 to complete the project by July 31, 2022. The grant funds the acquisition of instrumentation for real-time molecular level measurement of atmospheric gas- and particle-phase compounds under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA #47.050). This program supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and...
The Trustees of Boston University were awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct studies of atmospheric processes using imaging science techniques from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The grant was awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the funding will support the awardee's analysis of...
This three-year, $357,785 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research studying aerosol transport, forcing, and climate feedbacks during the Common and Last Glacial eras. The grantee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will conduct collaborative research from September 2021 through August 2024 to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports research to improve the understanding of atmospheric gravity waves and their role in transporting energy and momentum throughout the atmosphere. The $716,747 award to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is for a collaborative 3-year project that aims to integrate satellite and ground-based observations with numerical models to advance the knowledge of primary and...