Project Grant CLSS00000063792

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 $499,802 federal Project Grant award, funded by 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. The project will leverage Doppler radar wind retrievals and near-surface wind measurements to better understand the low-level wind profiles of landfalling hurricanes. Researchers will use advanced simulation techniques and artificial intelligence to predict...

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...

This $122,636 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to analyze hurricane vortices using a recently developed mathematical framework called LIUTEX. The research team at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) will apply LIUTEX to observational data and numerical modeling of three-dimensional hurricane winds to quantify the relationship between 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 $583,513 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research at the University of Washington to develop interpretable deep learning models that better predict the development of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes. The research aims to leverage the Madden-Julian Oscillation, a key atmospheric phenomenon, to improve forecasts of tropical cyclone genesis at 1-2 week lead times and explore extending predictions...

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 $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 $133,453 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research at Chapman University to advance the understanding of structural mitigation approaches that can reduce damage to coastal households from hurricane wind, wave, and surge hazards. The project will develop and evaluate a multi-level interdisciplinary model to simulate household-level home retrofit decisions in response to hurricane risks. It will also...