Cooperative Agreement AID520F1500002

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory will provide aircraft-derived atmospheric observations to improve weather forecasting models under a $520,500 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through the award's two-year period, MIT Lincoln Laboratory will extract meteorological data from commercial aircraft equipped with Mode S transponders using airport surveillance radars. This effort aims to increase the number, spatial resolution,...

This cooperative agreement award from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides $672,374 to incorporate a freezing rain accumulation model into the Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor system and expand validation data for freezing rain accumulation analysis. Under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459), the University of Oklahoma will deliver a national ice accumulation analysis updated every two minutes, along with new knowledge about...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) provides $500,000.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory to continue development and demonstration of a low-cost, standalone Mode S enhanced surveillance aircraft-derived atmospheric observation system. The project aims to advance the capabilities of this observation technology and meet operational...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $417,085 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to study radiative cooling and homogeneous droplet freezing in laboratory clouds. The three-year award beginning March 1, 2022 will support laboratory experiments and analytical modeling to increase understanding of water phase changes like evaporation, condensation, and freezing, which drive severe weather. The grantee will conduct experiments exposing cloud...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 SBIR Phase I project grant to Agile RF Systems LLC to develop and demonstrate a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar processing module for significantly enhanced detection of severe weather events such as tornadoes, hail, and wind shear. During the 9-month project, the company will develop and simulate MIMO radar algorithms, implement them in an existing four-channel software defined radar, and compare the MIMO performance to single input...

This $537,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Air Force under the National Guard Military Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Projects program (CFDA 12.401) provides funding to the Minnesota Department of Military Affairs, doing business as the Minnesota National Guard, to support operations and maintenance activities for Army National Guard (ARNG) and Air National Guard (ANG) facilities across the state. The award covers a one-year period from October 1, 2024 to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), provides $100,054 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to operate and maintain the Mid-Latitude All-Sky-Imaging Network for Geophysical Observation (MANGO) over a 5-year period from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2029. The MANGO network consists of 15 all-sky imagers and 4 Fabry-Perot interferometers that observe the Earth's upper atmosphere across the continental United...

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Maryland Eastern Shore a three-year $499,999 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to conduct research on river plume dynamics in Lake Michigan. The university will use coupled hydrodynamic and ice numerical models to investigate the effects of wave-current-ice interactions on coastal plume formation and plume behavior under climate change scenarios in the southern basin. A subaward of $75,741 was issued...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $794,633 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Washington to develop next-generation atmospheric physics, dynamical core, and/or component models and systems for the Unified Forecast System (UFS). The purpose is to address warm rain biases in the UFS by modifying the Thomson-Eidhammer parameterization to simulate warm rain more accurately. The work aims to improve the skill and efficiency of the coupled...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $587,816 Project Grant to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to understand the formation and characteristics of the Monsoon Onset Vortex (MOV) over the Arabian Sea. The 3-year project involves analyzing satellite and reanalysis data, along with running simulations using idealized models and the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, to study the...