This $397,337 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into the drivers and impacts of warm-season climate extremes in North America under a changing climate. The awardee, Northern Illinois University, will use high-resolution global climate modeling to examine how factors across various spatial scales influence extreme events like floods, heat waves and droughts. Researchers will simulate past and potential future warm seasons to...
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...
This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to advance the foundational understanding of chronic heat hazards, risks, and adaptation strategies in subtropical regions like Florida. Led by the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, the project will develop new methods to measure and manage chronic humid heat exposures, with a focus on informing planning and implementation of...
This Project Grant award for $786,467.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a collaborative research project focused on advancing the understanding of mesoscale air-sea coupling and its impact on long-term climate variability over the Southern Ocean. The project will utilize a hierarchy of coupled climate models to explore how mesoscale air-sea interactions and associated sea surface temperature anomalies affect the large-scale...
This $798,840 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to enhance forecasting capabilities for high-impact weather events like heat waves, cold snaps, wildfires, and heavy rainfall. The project aims to integrate physics-based atmospheric science with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, generating stochastic models to better predict midlatitude weather patterns and extreme events. This research will contribute...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $175,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Arizona State University to develop a geostatistical framework for modeling spatiotemporal extremes, such as heat waves, drought, and intense precipitation. The research aims to better understand the distributions of extreme weather events and develop statistical tools to model the associated spatial and temporal trends and uncertainties. The project will...
This $784,389 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into the causes of sea surface temperature fluctuations in the North Atlantic Ocean and their climatic impacts. The University of California, Riverside will conduct climate model simulations using the Community Earth System Model to explore the roles of natural variability versus external forcing factors like anthropogenic aerosols in driving the temperature changes. Specific...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $409,127 provides funding from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026 to support collaborative research on hurricane risk amplification and changing North Atlantic natural disasters. The award is made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the funding will support research examining hurricanes...
This $322,555 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to develop statistical and machine learning methods for studying the dynamics of weather and climate extremes. The three-year project, with a completion date of July 31, 2025, will focus on three key areas: climate model validation, changepoint estimation for extremes, and integration of multi-model climate ensembles. The research aims to enhance...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will provide $200,000 from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026 to Clemson University to build collaborations and capacity to address climate hazards in the Southeast U.S. The project will bring together stakeholders in South Carolina to coordinate efforts and increase resilience to Earth system hazards, such as heat stress, flooding, and pollutant exposures. It will facilitate meetings to engage...