The American Meteorological Society, Inc. received a $257,272 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2021 to support the EAGER: DEIBA STARS program through March 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research support in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the EAGER: DEIBA STARS program will provide $257k in...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $182,903 to further develop the Global Storm-resolving Model (GSAM) and make it available to the worldwide research community. Key deliverables include improving model behavior near the poles and radiative transfer calculations using machine learning, as well as validating simulations against satellite data. Additional resources developed are full documentation, tutorials,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $281,037 to develop online and classroom training materials for careers in the weather, water and climate industry. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Research Application Lab will collaborate with private industry subject matter experts and atmospheric science...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $105,435, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The award will fund a collaborative research project between Central Michigan University and the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) titled "GP-UP: Short-Term Immersive Experience for Atmospheric Science Undergraduates for Retention and Community-Building." The primary goal of the project is to address the critical...
This $320,091 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research effort between Central Michigan University and the University of Northern Colorado. The project aims to develop and evaluate a short-term, immersive field experience called the Student Training for Observational Research in Meteorology (STORM) program. This one-week experience is designed to engage undergraduate students at risk of attrition from...
This $352,990 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports further development of the Global Storm-resolving Model (GSAM) and making it available to the worldwide research community. Key deliverables include improving model behavior near poles and radiative transfer calculations using machine learning, enhancing input/output performance, and validating simulations against satellite data. Additional resources developed are full documentation,...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Project Grant award, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $158,059 to Colorado State University from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The funding will support collaborative research to understand the impact of declining Arctic sea ice on summertime climate change, including the effects on atmospheric circulation patterns, heat waves, and extreme weather. The research approach includes analysis...
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...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $424,952 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to study the connections between tropical heating, planetary-scale stationary waves, and extratropical storm track activity. The study, to be conducted by two Ph.D. students at Stony Brook University, aims to demonstrate how tropical deep convection and variations in zonal mean temperature gradients influence the behavior of extratropical...