Project Grant 60NANB23D269
- Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) received a $210,000 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for August 31, 2026. ARA will develop updated tornado hazard maps for incorporation into U.S. building standards and codes by analyzing eight years of recent tornado data and...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.609) provides $249,952 to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) to develop maps of future condition design wind speeds for buildings and infrastructure. The project aims to assess future wind conditions under a changing climate for hurricane and non-hurricane extreme winds, and incorporate the findings into...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $913,557.00 to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) for the "Boundary-Layer Evolution and Structure of Tornadoes (BEST)" project. The goal of this multi-year research effort is to better understand the structure, intensity, and evolution of tornado winds through advanced field observations. The project will deploy mobile radars, tornado pods, and swarmsonde balloons to...
- This $1.1 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at Pennsylvania State University from April 2022 through March 2025 to improve understanding of supercell thunderstorms and tornado formation. The research team will analyze well-observed tornadic storms using innovative observation and simulation techniques to address fundamental questions about tornado rotation, the role of surface friction and baroclinically-generated...
- This Cooperative Agreement award of $274,921 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program is intended to develop a novel framework to quantify the impact of climate change on the risk of buildings and bridges prone to earthquakes and strong windstorms. The key activities include creating a framework with eight modules to assess climate change scenarios, hazard analysis, structural...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $299,311 EAGER (Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant to the University of Missouri System (Missouri University of Science & Technology) on April 1, 2025, to investigate the role of inverse energy cascade in the tornadogenesis process. The project aims to understand why some supercell thunderstorms produce tornadoes while others with similar characteristics do not. Using coupled computer models...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $394,577 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Notre Dame DU Lac's Notre Dame Research Division on January 15, 2024 under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program. The purpose of this grant is to establish a web-enabled framework for a design procedure that accurately represents the modification in wind loading due to thunderstorm downbursts and their transient features. Key activities...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $291,476 Cooperative Agreement to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program. The purpose of this grant is to develop reliability analysis methodologies that account for the nonstationary nature of future climatic loads, while remaining consistent with current uniform reliability principles used in modern...
- This $5,500,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617), aims to increase knowledge about local weather systems in the lower atmosphere. The key activities include: Developing a method to standardize and trace commercial UAS and advanced air mobility (AAM) atmospheric measurements, as well as protocols and standards for the Unmanned Aircraft Meteorological Data Report. Evaluating...
- This $540,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at the University of Oklahoma to investigate the atmospheric processes that lead to tornado formation using explainable deep learning models. The project aims to advance the understanding of tornadogenesis (tornado formation) in order to improve weather forecasting and increase the nation's ability to protect...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Program (CFDA 11.609) provides $247,277 to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) to support R&D leading to an increased understanding of tornadic wind-structure interaction and development of updates to the current tornado load methodology. The project involves developing building models, performing tornado load simulations, analyzing results, and making recommendations to improve the existing tornado load procedures in the ASCE 7-22 standard. The expected outcomes include a proposal to the ASCE 7 Standards Committee and a technical paper for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The intended beneficiaries include research organizations, government agencies, standards development organizations, building designers, and the public.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $247.3k | 8/24/23 |