(FOA)-ROSES
2019: A.26 Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics (NNH19ZDA001N-ATDM); August 5,
2019
Agency
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Description
This
component of the Weather Focus Area is primarily designed to apply NASA
Scientific remote sensing expertise to the problem of obtaining accurate and
globally distributed measurements of the atmosphere to enhance our
understanding of atmospheric dynamical processes and assimilate these
measurements into NASA’s research, cloud and climate models, and
quasi-operational weather models in order to improve and extend U.S. and global
weather prediction. NASA-sponsored research continues to gain new insight into
weather and extreme weather events by the utilization of data obtained from a
variety of satellite platforms.
This
solicitation is aimed at enabling improved predictive capability for certain
weather and extreme weather events in three specific sub-element areas. The
first relates to difficult-to-retrieve weather conditions such as in complex
environments, or with orographic influences, light precipitation cases,
rain/snow transitions, etc. The second focuses on the use of past NASA field
campaign data from a long series of field experiments, and in conjunction with
satellite data and numerical models, to better understand relationships between
remotely sensed data and the physical properties of the underlying atmospheric
and surface conditions for improving process knowledge, algorithm assumptions,
and advancing models. The third offers an opportunity to participate in a field
experiment in 2020. In all three sub-element areas, strong preference will be
given to proposals that identify at least one testable hypothesis and describe
the process and NASA data to be used to test the hypothesis. Other non-NASA
data sources can also be included in these proposed
analyses.
Announcement
Number
NNH19ZDA001N-ATDM
Closing
Date
Step-1
proposals: August 5, 2019
Step-2
proposals: September 16, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
Contact
Information
Gail
Skofronick-Jackson
202-358-2045