This $815,349 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign. The 4-year project, starting September 1, 2024, aims to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth data for materials science, and enhance the nation's capabilities to predict hailstorms and their impacts. The project will...
This $219,584 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign. The goal is to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth data for materials science, and enhance the nation's ability to predict hailstorms and their impacts. The 4-year project will deploy a mobile observation network across the...
This $1,392,273 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth information for materials science, and enhance the nation's hailstorm forecasting capabilities. The 4-year award will deploy a fully mobile research network across the Front Range and...
This $548,981 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign. The primary objective is to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth data for materials science, and enhance the nation's capabilities to predict hailstorms and their impacts. The 4-year project will utilize a variety of advanced...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $965,500 to the University of Colorado will fund the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign. The goal of this 4-year project is to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth information for materials science, and enhance the nation's capabilities to predict hailstorms and their impacts. The...
This $248,770 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will support the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign. The primary objectives are to improve radar-based hail detection and monitoring, provide critical ground-truth data for materials science, and enhance the nation's capabilities to predict hailstorms and their impacts. Key activities include deploying...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $3,655,904 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Northern Illinois University to conduct the In-situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains (ICECHIP) field campaign. The goal of this 4-year project is to improve radar detection and monitoring of hail, provide critical ground-truth information for materials science, and enhance the nation's capabilities to predict hailstorms and their impacts. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $151,409 Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) for a multi-year collaborative research project focused on large hail detection and forecasting. The project will leverage polarimetric radar observations, cloud modeling, and in-situ aircraft measurements to better understand the microphysical processes of hail generation and develop advanced methodologies for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $298,441 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Oklahoma, operating through its Office of Research Administration, for a collaborative research project on using polarimetric radar observations, cloud modeling, and in situ aircraft measurements to improve large hail detection and warnings. The project aims to better understand the microphysical processes of hail generation and develop more advanced...
This $277,610 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research comparing in-situ and polarimetric radar hail observations. The University of North Dakota will use existing polarimetric radar and storm-penetrating aircraft data to improve estimates of hail properties from radar. Researchers will process hydrometeor images, analyze radar data to identify times when sweeps intersected hail, and...
This $562,680 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign. Over a 4-year period from September 2024 to August 2028, the project will use a variety of modern instrumentation and modeling techniques to obtain comprehensive observations of hailstorms, hailstones, and their impacts. The research aims to improve radar-based hail detection, hail forecasting models, and associated warnings through collaboration between academic, government, private sector, and international partners. The project will also provide research opportunities for 32 undergraduate and 20 graduate students across 10 U.S. universities, including two minority-serving institutions. No sub-awards are planned for this grant.