This $815,349 federal 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 of this 4-year project 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 research will use a variety of modern...
This $965,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028. The project aims 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. Key...
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. The objective 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. Over a 4-year period from September 2024 to August...
This $219,584 federal 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) research project. ICECHIP aims 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 4-year project, running from September 2024...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains" (ICECHIP) field campaign. The $548,981 award will fund a collaborative research effort 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. Over a 4-year...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $1,392,273 to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER) to conduct the In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains (ICECHIP) field campaign. The project aims 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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $3,655,904 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to Northern Illinois University (NIU) for the "In-Situ Collaborative Experiment for Collection of Hail in the Plains (ICECHIP)" research project. This 4-year collaborative field campaign 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...
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...
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...
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 $248,770 federal 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 project aims 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 4-year effort will deploy a fully mobile observation network across the Front Range and Central Plains to gather comprehensive data on hailstones, their formation, and associated storm characteristics using advanced instrumentation like mobile radars, drones, and high-resolution cameras. This first-of-its-kind dataset will be used to validate hail trajectory models, quantify environmental impacts on hail processes, and better link radar observations to hailstone properties and damage potential. The award supports the training of 32 undergraduate and 20 graduate students across 10 universities, including two minority-serving institutions.