This federal Project Grant award for $937,036.70, awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on September 1, 2024, aims to improve the understanding of aerosol mixing state and its connection to climate models. The primary awardee, the Regents of the University of Michigan, will lead research efforts to develop experimental tools to characterize the chemical composition, size, and morphology of individual aerosol particles. This work...
The federal Project Grant award in the amount of $630,914.00 was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, supports a research project titled "UNDERSTANDING THE POLAR CLOUD LONGWAVE FEEDBACK AND ITS CONFOUNDING FACTORS THROUGH A SPECTRAL LENS" that aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative...
The University of Miami was awarded a $472,597 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on "Interactions Between the Boundary Layer New Particle Formation and Cloud Systems: Observations from ARM's Southeast U.S. Field Campaign". The award began on September 1, 2023 and is scheduled for completion by February 28, 2025. The research aims to enhance scientific understanding of the complex interactions...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $792,891 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma for the project "IMPACTS OF CLOUD-AEROSOL-METEOROLOGY RELATIONS IN MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS ON RADIATIVE FLUXES OVER HIGH LATITUDES". The federal grant, authorized under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will fund research to advance understanding of the complex interactions between clouds, aerosols, and meteorology and their impacts on radiative...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $517,678.00 and awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports a research project titled "FROM PRECURSORS TO PARTICLES: EVALUATING CHEMICAL FORMATION AND SOURCES OF AEROSOLS IN THE EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC". The project will be carried out by the University of South Carolina from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The research aims to advance understanding of the chemical...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $879,135 Project Grant titled "TSURFACE, AEROSOL, AND METEOROLOGICAL CONTROLS ON SUBTROPICAL COASTAL METROPOLITAN CONVECTIVE CLOUDS: OBSERVATIONS AND SIMULATIONS FROM TRACER" to the University of Oklahoma (OU) on September 1, 2023. This grant, funded under the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports research efforts to quantify cloud properties and surrounding environmental factors, such as...
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), operating as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), received a two-year, $343,969 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The grant falls under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA #47.078), which supports basic research in the polar regions. Through this funding, NCAR will conduct research on the biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and its control on short-lived...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $605,865 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado (doing business as the University of Colorado) under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award, titled "SOS-CARBON: SOUTHERN OCEAN STORMINESS AND THE CARBON CYCLE", will fund a research project to investigate the impact of southern ocean storms on the global carbon cycle. The project will run from September 1, 2024 to February...
This Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports a research project titled "Discovering Macro- and Micro-Physical Relations in Precipitation Efficiency and Aerosol Wet Scavenging in Warm Clouds Using ARM Observation-Model Data Cubes and Machine Learning." The total award amount is $939,186.00, with a performance period from September 1, 2024, to February 28, 2026. The primary awardee is Colorado...
This Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $868,533 to The Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado) to identify and reduce structural errors in parameterized warm rain processes using data from the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) field campaigns. The funded research aims to analyze observations from the ARM Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment...