Project Grant N000142612086

This three-year, $830,233 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research examining the impact of greenhouse gas-induced global warming on tropical cyclones in the Pacific region. The Columbia University research team, in collaboration with sub-awardee The Trustees of Columbia University, will utilize flux adjustment techniques and high-resolution atmospheric modeling to simulate the response of key ocean temperature patterns to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $701,663 to Florida State University to conduct collaborative research on the intensity and size relationship of tropical cyclones. The research aims to better understand this relationship through exploring how the inward radial loss rate of absolute angular momentum and effective absolute angular momentum values depend on environmental...

This three-year, $533,747 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will fund research into how the intensity and impacts of tropical cyclones may change in response to climate warming after landfall. Specifically, the grantee will conduct idealized and real-data case studies in pseudo-global warming scenarios to assess potential shifts in tropical cyclone activity and landfall location, changes in precipitation patterns and the extent of...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc. in the amount of $374,070 aims to better understand how different types of precipitation in tropical cyclones impact their maximum sustained wind speeds. The 4-year project will use airborne Doppler radar data and numerical weather prediction models to examine how precipitation modes, such as convection and stratiform rain, perturb the kinematic...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $577,875 Project Grant to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to study the factors and processes controlling the duration of concentric eyewall structure and associated intensity changes in tropical cyclones. The key objectives of this 3-year research project are to: Examine how initial tropical cyclone structure and environmental conditions affect the timescale of the eyewall replacement cycle (ERC) and associated...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences) for $129,932 supports research to better understand the role of surface wave direction and wave breaking in modulating air-sea interaction and ocean transport processes. The project will use theoretical, numerical, laboratory, and observational techniques to advance the understanding of the geometry, kinematics, dynamics, and statistics of ocean surface waves and wave breaking. High-resolution field...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $424,952 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to study the connections between tropical heating, planetary-scale stationary waves, and extratropical storm track activity. The study, to be conducted by two Ph.D. students at Stony Brook University, aims to demonstrate how tropical deep convection and variations in zonal mean temperature gradients influence the behavior of extratropical...

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences program has awarded a $332,982 Project Grant to the University of Illinois. The grant, awarded on November 15, 2023, will fund collaborative research to understand the links between tropical cyclones and tropical circulation under climate change. The research will leverage two idealized configurations of the Community Earth System Model to isolate the mechanisms by which changes in atmospheric overturning cells, such as the Hadley and Walker Cells,...