Project Grant NNX08AJ89G

This $250,771 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on the interaction between Antarctic low clouds and natural aerosols. The research aims to improve global climate model simulations over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean by better representing low-level cloud physics, which have significant impacts on ice surface melt and solar energy transmission. The 4-year project will...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $658,934 project grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to support research titled "Improved Representation of Cloud-Aerosol Interactions in the Community Earth System Model: A New Sectional Cloud Model that Interacts with Modal and Sectional Aerosol Models." The grant will fund the development of a new sectional cloud model to be incorporated into the Community Earth System Model. The...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) and the Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) program, has awarded a $701,417 Cooperative Agreement to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RFSUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. This award, effective May 15, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2028, is for the inclusion of the Multi-function Airborne Raman LIDAR (MARLI) and Airborne...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will support research to enhance understanding of cloud impacts on the surface energy budget of the Antarctic Peninsula. With total funding of $248,364, the award period is from February 1, 2022 through July 31, 2024. The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as awardee, will use surface-based and satellite measurements to characterize clouds and humidity in the region. Researchers will...

This $385,959 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to improve understanding of the Sun's corona, the hot outer layer of the solar atmosphere, through the analysis of data from five total solar eclipses occurring between 2015 and 2024. Researchers at the Wentworth Institute of Technology will analyze visible and near-infrared imaging data of the corona to study its electron temperature, density, and magnetic field structure. This will...

This $564,958 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports measurement, simulation, and mitigation of the impact of low-Earth orbit satellite constellations on wide-field optical surveys conducted by ground-based observatories. The University of California, Davis will pursue multiple mitigation strategies including developing novel algorithms for processing charge-coupled device images, strategies for avoiding the brightest...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $532,712, supports collaborative research to investigate the physical processes underlying transitions in marine stratocumulus cloud cover over the eastern North Atlantic region. The research aims to develop a causal framework to better understand the complex interactions that drive changes in cloud structure, from continuous stratocumulus layers to more broken...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $291,231 supports collaborative research on coastal cloud chemistry during the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment campaign. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award will leverage recent instrumentation developments to augment the Department of Energy's campaign conducted in La Jolla, California from February 2023 to January 2024. Specifically, the University of California, Los Angeles will utilize...

This federal Project Grant award of $182,730, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), aims to improve the understanding of the Sun's corona through the analysis of data from five total solar eclipses between 2015 and 2024. The project, led by Predictive Science Incorporated, a for-profit research organization in San Diego, will analyze visible and near-infrared imaging data of coronal emission lines to infer the electron temperature, electron density, and...

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...