Project Grant N629091712036

This National Science Foundation project grant of $111,643 will fund research to evaluate numerical model skill in simulating near-surface winds in the Northern Hemisphere under the Geosciences program. The University of Hawaii at Manoa will synthesize paleowind data and conduct data-model comparisons to assess general atmospheric circulation and potential model biases. Researchers will analyze near-surface wind directions from Last Glacial Maximum simulations against proxy records....

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $318,549 to support research evaluating numerical model skill in simulating near-surface winds in the Northern Hemisphere under past climate conditions. Specifically, the University of Illinois will synthesize paleowind data and conduct data-model comparisons to enhance understanding of factors driving changes in northern...

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 Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $152,260, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) from March 1, 2025, to February 29, 2028. The primary objective of this project is to investigate the sources of day-to-day variability in the near-Earth space environment during geomagnetically quiet periods. The research aims to advance the scientific understanding of the connections...

This three-year $400,242 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into the interactions between easterly waves and wind jets in the current and future climate of the east Pacific. The principal investigator and one graduate student at Colorado State University will conduct eddy kinetic energy and vorticity budget calculations to elucidate the effects of Central American gap jets on developing easterly waves. They will also use...

The Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) received a $646,891 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Economic, Social and Political Development of the Territories (CFDA 15.875) program. The grant will fund the installation of a 466-unit, 400-watt solar energy system capable of producing an estimated 312,300 kWh of renewable electricity annually. This system is expected to offset approximately 93% of the central government's...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) supports research aimed at improving the simulation of tropical cyclone (TC) structure, including asymmetries, in climate models. The $209,502 project, which runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will develop process-oriented diagnostics to evaluate how accurately climate models capture TC kinematic and thermodynamic...

Northwest Research Associates, Inc. was awarded a $399,852 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct modeling studies of tropical cyclone intensification from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. Under this award, the company will use reduced and full-physics computer modeling to study the transitions of underdeveloped tropical cyclones into powerful hurricanes. The modeling studies aim to improve understanding of intensification processes under...

This $500,419 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of new computational simulations to analyze the interactions between offshore wind turbines and air-water flows in complex bathymetry. The project, titled "COUPLED AIR-SEA DYNAMICS IN OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE FLOWS WITH COMPLEX BATHYMETRY", will validate a coupled wind-sea numerical framework, characterize the dependence of turbine power and...