Project Grant CLSS00000063777

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a study on the role of land surface conditions in the maintenance of Hurricane Helene after it made landfall in Florida in September 2024. The $154,118 award, granted on November 15, 2024, will be used by the University of Texas at Austin to investigate precipitation, land-atmosphere feedbacks, and the "brown ocean effect" during the hurricane. The research team will...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $459,780 to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science to advance understanding of tropical cyclone intensification dynamics in sheared environments. Specifically, the award supports research using the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model and HWRF Ensemble Data Assimilation System (HEDAS) to analyze tropical cyclone energetics, vortex...

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences program awarded a $777,109 project grant to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) to study the structure, dynamics, and moisture budgets of tropical cyclones from the lower to upper troposphere. The project will leverage airborne Doppler radar observations, dropsonde measurements, satellite imagery, and high-resolution computer simulations to better understand the three-dimensional structure of the...

This Project Grant award of $122,636 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to analyze hurricane vortices using a recently developed mathematical framework called LIUTEX. The primary goal is to better understand how small-scale vortices within hurricane eyewalls relate to the overall storm structure and intensity, with the potential to improve hurricane forecasting. The research team at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel...

This Project Grant award of $215,146 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to investigate how the expansion rate of tropical cyclones (hurricanes) changes with global warming. The research aims to bridge the gap between theory and real-world observations to improve forecasting of tropical cyclone hazards, including wind, storm surge, inland flooding, and tornadoes. The project will systematically analyze historical data, climate model...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a $425,403 study by George Mason University to characterize the effects of hurricanes on the upper atmosphere. The research team will use satellite observations and climate models to analyze how hurricanes impact winds, temperatures, and atmospheric waves in the thermosphere and ionosphere, tens of kilometers above the Earth's surface. This work aims to provide new insights into the...

This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a rapid research project at Montclair State University to evaluate the resilience of small community water systems (CWS) to Hurricanes Helene and Milton in southwest Florida. The project aims to advance understanding of hurricane resilience behaviors of these small CWS, which typically lack the capacity to adapt to natural hazards due to limited resources. The research...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to improve coastal community resilience to hurricane wind-related hazards and potential compounding hazards, such as power grid failures and extreme heat, in the Gulf Coast region of Texas and Louisiana. The $499,802 project, awarded on August 1, 2025, will leverage Doppler radar wind retrievals, near-surface wind measurements, high-resolution computer simulations, and artificial intelligence...

This $109,924 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research assessing the resilience of centralized and decentralized water supply infrastructure in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Fiona. The University of Puerto Rico Research and Development Center will collect timely data through surveys, stakeholder workshops, and water quality monitoring at select systems. Researchers will analyze the data to evaluate behaviors and effectiveness of...

This $197,846 project grant was awarded on July 17, 2024 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate's (SMD) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 43.001). The grant supports a 3-year research project titled "CYGNSS-BASED ANALYSIS OF AIR-SEA FLUX IMPACTS ON MIDLATITUDE STORM DEVELOPMENT" to be conducted by the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS). The project aims to utilize data from NASA's...