This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $510,294 to Portland State University. The grant supports research into atmospheric ridges over western North America under current and future climates. The grantee will investigate how various atmosphere, ocean, and land surface conditions influence ridge characteristics, and how potential changes may interact with warming...
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 $226,880 National Science Foundation project grant funds research titled "WARM RAIN IN COMPLEX COASTAL TERRAIN--IMPROVING PROCESS-LEVEL UNDERSTANDING AND MODEL REPRESENTATION" from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023. The grant is awarded under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system. Specifically, the grant will fund research at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1.6 million Project Grant to Washington State University from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funds research to understand the use of discretion and its socio-environmental consequences for reservoir systems. The Geosciences program supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Over the four-year period of...
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 National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $666,969 Project Grant to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025 to advance understanding of orographic precipitation processes in continental multi-ridge mountain environments like Utah's Wasatch Range. Specifically, the project aims to investigate snowfall enhancement over...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program awarded a $498,356 project grant to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) for the project "Controls on Ridgeline Profile Morphology." This 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2024, will fund research to improve the understanding of how ridgelines are shaped and eroded, which is key to predicting natural hazards like landslides, debris flows, and river flooding. The project will test three hypotheses about the controls on ridgeline...
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 Washington State University a $300,153 project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant will support the collaborative research project "CORRELATED VELOCITY MODELS AS DYNAMIC UPSCALING AND MODEL TRANSLATION TOOLS FOR WATERSHED-SCALE HYDROBIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING" to be conducted in Pullman, Washington. The Geosciences program seeks to strengthen understanding of Earth's...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $608,923 Project Grant to the University of Washington to conduct collaborative research on identifying biases in climate models' representation of poleward heat transport, a critical physical process governing global temperature patterns and variability. The research will focus on evaluating three key aspects: 1) how climate models partition poleward heat transport between the atmosphere and ocean compared...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $1,267,346 provides funding from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025 to advance understanding of atmospheric ridging over western North America under current and future climates. The award is made through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences.
Specifically, the award supports collaborative research between Washington State University and partner institutions to investigate how atmosphere, ocean, and land surface conditions influence ridge characteristics and extremes through analysis of observations and climate model simulations. The research aims to identify potential sources for seasonal to sub-seasonal ridge predictions and understand how ridges may respond to continued global warming. Findings will facilitate evaluation of implications for surface climate extremes and impacts across sectors in the region. The funding also supports research training and infrastructure development to benefit students from underrepresented backgrounds. Outreach activities will engage local educators, communities and stakeholders to communicate research insights.