Project Grant 2409690
- The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $1,247,478 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) grant program. This 4-year award funds a collaborative research project titled "Antarctic Low Cloud Interaction with Natural Aerosol (ALCINA)". The project will collect comprehensive field data on aerosol properties and cloud optical characteristics at Palmer...
- This $1,053,327 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research led by the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to understand the large-scale interactions between shallow oceanic clouds and climate. The research aims to develop a model that can simulate cloud-scale motions and turbulence at the global scale, in order to better assess the net climatic effect of these ubiquitous but insubstantial...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) is for $423,761 and will be executed from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The grant will support collaborative research to advance coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice modeling of the Antarctic region. The project aims to enhance the representation of atmospheric cloud physics and ocean-sea ice heat exchange in state-of-the-science models. This will enable more realistic simulations of the marine...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will support research to enhance understanding of cloud impacts on the surface energy budget of the Antarctic Peninsula. With total funding of $248,364, the award period is from February 1, 2022 through July 31, 2024. The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as awardee, will use surface-based and satellite measurements to characterize clouds and humidity in the region. Researchers will...
- This $392,618 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support collaborative research to investigate the combined impact of atmospheric rivers and foehn warming on surface warming and melting over West Antarctica. The research will utilize high-resolution numerical weather prediction simulations and existing satellite/ground observations to examine the physical mechanisms behind these extreme weather events and their contribution to ice...
- This $250,771 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on the interaction between Antarctic low clouds and natural aerosols. The research aims to improve global climate model simulations over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean by better representing low-level cloud physics, which have significant impacts on ice surface melt and solar energy transmission. The 4-year project will...
- This $513,000 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant supports collaborative research by the University of Colorado to assess the causal influence of atmospheric opacity (clouds) and sea ice thickness on Arctic warming over the past 40 years and into the near future. Key deliverables include quantifying the impact of these factors on Arctic warming rates using a novel modeling approach,...
- This $870,804 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will support a 5-year research project at the University of Washington focused on improving the representation of small-scale sea ice processes in climate models. The key objectives are to refine the modeling of sea ice deformation and fractures at the floe scale, and establish connections between these small-scale dynamics and larger-scale sea ice behavior. This will involve a...
- This federal Project Grant award of $370,228, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078), supports collaborative research on the mechanisms of moisture-driven ice growth during the Miocene Climate Optimum, a past period of global warming. The interdisciplinary research team will use advanced Earth system models and geologic data to investigate how increased high-latitude snowfall may have offset Antarctic ice sheet melt during this warmer climate interval....
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $560,052 to Colorado State University to improve seasonal sea ice extent predictability in the Arctic Ocean. The research aims to use ocean heat patterns and the timing of autumn sea ice freeze up from reanalysis data and the CESM2 Large Ensemble to evaluate which environmental variables most significantly contribute to sea ice loss. The grant...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) will advance atmosphere-ocean-sea ice modeling in the Southern Ocean by enhancing the representation of atmospheric cloud physics and heat exchange between the ocean and sea ice in state-of-the-art models. The $749,828 award to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography will incorporate recent observations of high latitude clouds and aerosols to improve weather forecasting on subseasonal to seasonal timescales. The analysis of the coupled model simulations will also deepen the understanding of physical processes governing Antarctic sea ice, atmosphere, and upper ocean variability, including the abrupt shift in sea ice conditions observed since 2016. This research aims to refine and improve operational weather forecasting and earth system models for the Southern Ocean region.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $749.8k | 8/18/25 |