Funding-DOE -
Collaborative Research in Support of GOAmazon Campaign Science; June 28, 2013
Agency
Office
of Science
Description
The
Climate and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD), Office of Biological and
Environmental Research (BER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE), in collaboration with the Amazonas Research Foundation and the
Sao Paulo Research Foundation of Brazil, hereby announces its interest in
collaborative grant research applications in support of the upcoming
GreenOceanAmazon2014 experiment (GOAmazon2014).
Tropical
deep convection in its natural state and the underlying processes that drive it
are poorly understood and modeled, often with insufficient observational data
sets to advance either a scientific understanding or modeling capabilities.
Given the current state of the science, the Office of Biological and
Environmental Research's Climate and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD)
will provide support to the community to conduct a major field experiment to
advance the scientific understanding of coupled atmosphere-cloud-terrestrial
tropical systems.
The
field experiment, i.e., GreenOceanAmazon2014 (http://www.arm.gov/campaigns/amf2014amazon),
will extend through the wet and dry seasons for a one-year period, January 1 -
December 31, 2014, with planned extensions through 2015.The Department of
Energy’s ARM Climate Research Facility, Environmental Molecular Sciences
Laboratory, and Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program will provide support for
observational resources to be deployed in the Amazon Basin. In 2014 and 2015,
both the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) and ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) airborne
platform will be on location near Manaus, Brazil for the GOAmazon
campaign. Under this FOA, the Atmospheric System Research, Regional and Global
Climate Modeling, and Terrestrial Ecosystem Science programs will support
research using data collected as part of GOAmazon to
evaluate and improve the representation of these coupled processes in the
climate models.
Announcement
Number:
DE-FOA-0000919
Closing
Date:
Jun 28, 2013
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/Default.htm
Contact
Information
Kimberlie J. Laing, Grants Analyst, 301-903-3026
kim.laing@science.doe.gov
Ashley D. Williamson, Program Manager, 301-903-3120
ashley.williamson@science.doe.gov
kim.laing@science.doe.gov