This $627,319 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports a collaborative research effort at the University of Utah focused on coupled land-atmosphere-ocean data assimilation and modeling to improve subseasonal-to-seasonal predictability of extreme weather events. The research, conducted from September 2024 through February 2026, will leverage the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) and the Data...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) awarded a $798,411.00 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma on September 1, 2024. The grant will support a research project titled "Linking Convective Environments to Microphysical Processes in Updrafts and Downdrafts Using DOE ARM Data and High-Resolution Modeling" over the performance period ending on February 28, 2026. The project aims to advance understanding of the relationships between...
The University of Wyoming was awarded a $633,751 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research titled "Linking Aerosol Forcing and Cloud Feedback to Atmospheric Moisture Processing." The project will run from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The research aims to advance scientific understanding of the interactions between aerosols, cloud formation, and atmospheric moisture processing, which are...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has 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." This federal grant, awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will fund a research project aimed at advancing scientific understanding of the interactions between clouds, aerosols, and meteorology and their...
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science has awarded a $605,865 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for the "SOS-CARBON: Southern Ocean Storminess and the Carbon Cycle" project. The grant, effective September 1, 2024, will support fundamental scientific research to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through the study of southern ocean storminess...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $944,973 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant, titled "Pristine Southern Ocean Aerosol and Cloud Processes: Coupling Single-Particle Measurements and Modeling During CAPE-K," aims to advance scientific understanding of aerosol composition, size distributions, marine organics, cloud condensation nuclei, and ice nucleating...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $945,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Rutgers, The State University to conduct research titled "CONNECTING AEROSOL-RELATED CLOUD BRIGHTNESS TO TURBULENCE USING EPCAPE MEASUREMENTS". The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries related to climate science and atmospheric phenomena. The...
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $530,501 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) to conduct research on evaluating the relationships between mean state, high cloud feedbacks, and climate sensitivity in climate models, including the DOE's E3SM model. The project will run from September 1, 2024, to February 28, 2026. As a prominent research university, UVA will...
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...
The University of Utah received a $387,974 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 1, 2022 to support research titled "Splitting Photons: Singlet Fission in Nanocrystal-Molecule Hybrid Structures." The award is funded through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049) to conduct scientific research and deliver major scientific tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security....