The National Science Foundation's Geosciences program has awarded a $332,982 Project Grant to the University of Illinois. The grant, awarded on November 15, 2023, will fund collaborative research to understand the links between tropical cyclones and tropical circulation under climate change. The research will leverage two idealized configurations of the Community Earth System Model to isolate the mechanisms by which changes in atmospheric overturning cells, such as the Hadley and Walker Cells, impact tropical cyclone behavior. This work aims to assess changes in tropical cyclone risk due to greenhouse warming, and the research results and model configurations will be made available to the broader scientific community. The project also supports the training of two graduate students, contributing to the development of the future scientific workforce.
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