Funding-NSF - Decadel
and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models; December 23, 2013
Agency
Name
National
Science Foundation
Synopsis
The consequences of
climate variability and change are becoming more immediate and profound than
previously anticipated. Over recent decades, the world has witnessed the onset
of prolonged droughts on several continents, increased frequency of floods,
loss of agricultural and forest productivity, degraded ocean and permafrost
ecosystems, global sea level rise and the rapid retreat of ice sheets and
glaciers, loss of arctic sea ice, and changes in ocean currents. These
important impacts highlight that climate variability and change can have
significant effects on decadal and shorter time scales, with significant
consequences for plant, animal, human, and physical systems.
The EaSM funding opportunity enables interagency cooperation on
one of the most pressing problems of the millennium: climate change and how it
is likely to affect our world. It allows the partner agencies -- National
Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) -- to
combine resources to identify and fund the most meritorious and highest-impact
projects that support their respective missions, while avoiding duplication of
effort and fostering collaboration between agencies and the investigators they
support.
This
interdisciplinary scientific challenge calls for the development and
application of next-generation Earth System Models that include coupled and
interactive representations of such components as ocean and atmospheric
currents, agricultural working lands and forests, biogeochemistry, atmospheric
chemistry, the water cycle and land ice. This solicitation seeks to attract
scientists from the disciplines of geosciences, agricultural sciences,
mathematics and statistics. Successful proposals will develop intellectual
excitement in the participating disciplinary communities and engage diverse
interdisciplinary teams with sufficient breadth to achieve the scientific
objectives. We encourage proposals that have strong broader impacts, including
public access to data and other research products of general interest, as well
as educational, diversity, or societal impacts.
The long-term goals
of this solicitation are to improve on and extend current Earth System modeling
capabilities to:
1.
Achieve
comprehensive, reliable global and regional predictions of decadal climate
variability and change through advanced understanding of the coupled
interactive physical, chemical, biological, and human processes that drive the
climate system, including as they pertain to agriculture ,
forestry or land cover/use.
2.
Quantify
the impacts of climate variability and change on natural and human systems, and
identify and quantify feedback loops.
3.
Maximize
the utility of available observational and model data for impact,
vulnerability/resilience, and risk assessments through up/downscaling
activities and uncertainty characterization.
4.
Effectively
translate climate predictions and associated uncertainties into the scientific
basis for policy and management decisions related to human interventions and
adaptation to the projected impacts of climate change.
The EaSM-3
solicitation focuses primarily on Goal 1 (above) with the following
specific areas of interest related to decadal scales: (i) Research that has the
potential to dramatically improve predictive capabilities; (ii) Prediction and
attribution studies; (iii) Development and applications of metrics, methods, and
tools for testing and evaluating climate and climate impact predictions and
characterizing their uncertainty.
These
subareas of particular interest are described in greater detail below under
Program Description: Areas of interest.
Announcement
Number:
NSF 13-607
Due
Date: December
23, 2013
Link
to Full Announcement
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13607/nsf13607.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
·
Eric C. Itsweire, Directorate for Geosciences
(GEO), telephone: (703) 292-8582, email: easm3@nsf.gov
·
William J. Wiseman, Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), telephone: (703)
292-4750, email: easm3@nsf.gov
·
Anjuli S. Bamzai,
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), telephone: (703) 292-8527, email: easm3@nsf.gov
·
Peter Milne, Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), telephone: (703)
292-4714, email: easm3@nsf.gov
·
Michael Steuerwalt, Directorate for
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), telephone: (703) 292-4860, email: easm3@nsf.gov
·
Thomas F. Russell, Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
(MPS), telephone: (703) 292-4863, email: easm3@nsf.gov
·
Nancy Cavallaro, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, telephone: (202) 401-5176, email: easm3@nsf.gov
· Mary Ann Rozum, U.S. Department of Agriculture, telephone: (202)
401-4533, email: easm3@nsf.gov