Project Grant DESC0020324

This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $324,656.00, was issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.431). The project aims to assess how well Earth System Models (ESMs) simulate the day-to-day variability in offshore propagation of diurnal convection (OPDC) near coastal regions in the tropics, and to identify process-level sources of biases in simulated OPDC. The work will involve evaluating...

This Project Grant award of $711,800 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research by Colorado State University to investigate the impact of tropical Pacific Ocean rain layers on weather and climate patterns, such as the Madden-Julian Oscillation and El Niño events. The research explores how the formation of a cold lid, or stable layer, from fresh rainwater on the ocean surface can delay and then intensify convective cloud development, with...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $488,466 to fund research examining how atmospheric synoptic Kelvin waves influence the propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). The Research Foundation for the State University of New York at the University at Albany will receive the funding and conduct the research from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The research aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) provides $239,986 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to advance the understanding of climate prediction models and improve seasonal to decadal climate forecasting. The project aims to explore how increased horizontal model resolution can enhance predictive skill for sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific and related impacts on...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the CFDA 11.431 Climate and Atmospheric Research program, provides $240,084 to Texas A&M University for a 3-year collaborative research project focused on improving climate prediction capabilities. The key objectives are to advance the understanding of how increased model resolution in climate prediction systems can improve forecasting of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) will support research to improve coastal sea level predictions along the U.S. coastline. The $175,613 project, running from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, will leverage machine learning techniques to identify key ocean processes driving sea level variability on subseasonal to decadal timescales. This will inform model development to...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) will support research to assess how accurately climate models simulate tropical cyclone structure and asymmetries, and how model factors like resolution and parameterizations influence these biases. The $209,502 project, running from September 2024 to August 2027, will leverage airborne observations to develop diagnostics for evaluating...

This three-year, $358,347 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to determine the role of ocean dynamics in Atlantic sea surface temperature variations using coupled climate models. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will lead a collaborative effort to develop a hierarchy of coupled climate models within the Community Earth System Model version 2 platform. Comparisons between model pairs that disable specific oceanic...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) totals $2,171,913 and will be performed by Colorado State University (CSU) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The project aims to explore the predictability of regional coastal sea levels due to large-scale climate variability at subseasonal-to-seasonal timescales. Key activities include: 1) quantifying relationships between...

This $304,752 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs award will fund research to improve climate model simulations of sea ice physics and feedbacks through analysis of observations from the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate field campaign. The University of Washington will integrate spatially and temporally coordinated field observations with single column and global climate modeling to develop parameterizations that more accurately...