The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $349,980 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program grant to Upstream PBC, a for-profit small business, to expand their HydroForecast seasonal prototype. The project aims to improve the methodology and data used for generating weather forecast inputs, integrate a new weather forecasting source to enhance accuracy at longer lead times, and benchmark performance in critical basins to benefit customers and society. This...
Prescient Weather LTD received a $398,208 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to enhance subseasonal and seasonal forecasts. The two-year award running from February 2021 to January 2023 will support Prescient Weather's efforts to develop improved forecasting tools and models to better serve business and industry needs. The Small Business Innovation Research Program seeks to stimulate technological...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Hydrosat Inc. a $1,943,820 Phase II grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop high spatiotemporal resolution global satellite thermal infrared data products. Through this project, Hydrosat aims to mature the commercial onramp of its cutting-edge thermal infrared data, which has demonstrated significant potential to improve uncertainty reduction and anomaly detection for...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,950,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to Ensemble Government Services, LLC. The grant funding will support the development of an analytics service to make NOAA's Whole Atmosphere Model-Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (WAM-IPE) model more accessible and useful for satellite operators and space situational awareness providers. The project aims to enhance...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,950,000 Project Grant under its NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to Applied Ocean Sciences, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Fairfax Station, Virginia. The purpose of this 24-month award, with a start date of September 1, 2024, is to continue the development of an advanced visibility risk assessment tool for maritime operations. The tool will utilize ensemble...
This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant award, with a total funding of $649,991, was made to Transcend Engineering And Technology, LLC (doing business as Transcend Engineering) to greatly reduce the cost of monitoring soil water content in highly resolved vertical profiles. The goal is to promote increased adoption of more efficient water management tools in permanent agriculture. The new multi-level soil...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Airmettle Inc. a $300,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to explore integrating in-situ analysis capabilities for multi-dimensional data stored in Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) into its real-time smart data lake solution. The SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation and commercialization of federally funded research by small businesses. Under this...
This $428,965 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) aims to develop and test a method for improving subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) precipitation outlooks for the contiguous United States. The project, led by Utah State University, will apply a new weather regime-Gaussian mixture model (WR-GMM) framework to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's dynamical forecast outputs to produce...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,298,986 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program supports the development of a high-impact innovation called XTREMECAST. XTREMECAST integrates global ensemble weather forecasts with an AI-driven post-processing model to provide skillful probabilistic forecasts of compound extreme weather events at extended lead times. The proposed solution aims to improve electric utility companies'...
Azavea Inc. received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Small Business Innovation Research Program to advance flood extent delineation modeling using synthetic aperture radar data. With funding through June 2023, Azavea will utilize NOAA SBIR funding to develop modeling capabilities analyzing synthetic aperture radar data to map flood extent. The SBIR program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in support of federal research needs...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $3,249,675 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to Salient Predictions Inc. The purpose of this 2-year grant is to develop technology for accurate subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) water availability forecasts. Salient Predictions plans to improve S2S weather forecasts and integrate them with the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrological model to provide more accurate predictions of soil moisture and river flow. This will help communities better manage water resources and prepare for hazardous events like floods and droughts. The project aims to create a scalable, efficient, and accurate hydrological forecasting system that can be deployed across the continental United States. The anticipated results include enhanced water availability insights that can benefit various commercial sectors, such as agriculture, energy, supply chain, and disaster risk management.