Project Grant DESC0024317

This Project Grant award of $650,456 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences supports collaborative research on the relationship between the trade wind inversion layer and the seasonal development of the Southeast Pacific Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The research aims to understand the dynamic and thermodynamic mechanisms that produce the transition from unfavorable to favorable conditions for deep convection and the genesis of the...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $291,231 supports collaborative research on coastal cloud chemistry during the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment campaign. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will leverage recent instrumentation developments to augment the Department of Energy's campaign conducted in La Jolla, California from February 2023 to January 2024. Specifically, the University of California, Los Angeles will utilize...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences award provides $509,769 to Rutgers, The State University from August 2023 through July 2026 to conduct collaborative research on the processes governing transitions in subtropical marine boundary layer cloudiness. The research aims to improve the representation of these cloud transitions in weather forecast and climate models by investigating the shifting balance of physical processes that drive the evolution...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Project Grant award to Colorado State University (CSU) is for $254,826 over 3 years, starting on July 1, 2023. The award is funded under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system. The project focuses on examining the relationship between the trade wind inversion layer and the seasonal development of...

This three-year, $457,778 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences aims to advance understanding of new particle formation in the marine boundary layer and its impact on cloud condensation nuclei and cloud microphysics. Specifically, the awardee, Washington University in University City, Missouri, will analyze existing field measurements from various Atlantic and Pacific Ocean campaigns to identify conditions conducive to new particle...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $532,712, supports collaborative research to investigate the physical processes underlying transitions in marine stratocumulus cloud cover over the eastern North Atlantic region. The research aims to develop a causal framework to better understand the complex interactions that drive changes in cloud structure, from continuous stratocumulus layers to more broken...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $372,870 supports research into aerosol-cloud-turbulence interactions through numerical simulation and experimental chamber studies. Awarded on September 1, 2022 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the three-year award to the University of Notre Dame will use high-resolution numerical modeling and experiments at the PI Chamber facility to examine questions around aerosol hygroscopicity, supersaturation fluctuations, droplet settling...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will support research to enhance understanding of cloud impacts on the surface energy budget of the Antarctic Peninsula. With total funding of $248,364, the award period is from February 1, 2022 through July 31, 2024. The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as awardee, will use surface-based and satellite measurements to characterize clouds and humidity in the region. Researchers will...

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 National Science Foundation project grant award of $522,605 provides funding from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 to support collaborative research on coastal cloud chemistry during the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE). Led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, with the State of California serving as the parent organization, this research aims to enhance understanding of cloud formation processes to...