FOA-FY2021
Weather Program Office Research Programs (NOAA-OAR-WPO-2021-2006592); September
22, 2020
Agency
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Department of Commerce
(DOC)
Description
NOAA’s
Weather Program Office (WPO; formerly OWAQ, the Office of Weather and Air
Quality) is soliciting proposals for weather, air quality, and earth-system
modeling and observations research reflecting multiple science objectives
spanning time scales from hours to seasons, and from weather and water
observations and earth system modeling to social, and behavioral, and economic
science. The WPO Social Science Program (SSP) is dedicated to finding,
funding, and fostering collaborative SBES weather research and helps translate
findings into potential weather applications. The
funded projects should improve the weather community’s understanding and
ultimately its services of weather and water forecasting through engagement with
the external scientific community on key science gaps of mutual interest.
Through
this funding opportunity, NOAA will support new weather, water, climate, earth
system, and air quality observing and forecasting applications, including
improved analysis techniques, better statistical or dynamic forecast models and
techniques, and communication of that information to better inform the public.
There will be three grant competitions
from this notification as follows:
1)
Joint Technology Transfer Initiative (JTTI)
(i) In collaboration with the Unified Forecast System (UFS)
community, further develop, test and enhance data assimilation techniques,
develop and evaluate physics, improve model component coupling techniques and
capabilities, and utilizing Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) for
improving forecasts, (ii) Further development and enhancement of physics suite
tuning and evaluations, post-processing techniques and tools, and (iii) Improve
forecasts and messaging of extreme weather and high impact weather events (e.g.,
severe convection, winter storms, extreme rainfall).
2)
Observations
The
aim of this competition is to develop and demonstrate innovative sensor and
observing technologies that have high potential for advancing an observation
systems portfolio that is mission-effective, integrated, adaptable, and
affordable. The scope includes weather and water related observations from the
surface through the planetary boundary layer including in-situ surface,
profiling, balloon-borne, radar, and airborne and/or unmanned systems (UxS) based technologies.
3)
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
(SBES)
The
WPO Social Science Program (SSP) is dedicated to finding, funding, and fostering
collaborative SBES weather research and helps translate findings into potential
weather applications. Through this funding announcement, WPO SSP solicits SBES
research proposals that benefit the overall weather community. The WPO SSP seeks
to involve SBES researchers and social science led, interdisciplinary teams to
integrate SBES into meteorological research, forecasting, information displays,
and communication of uncertainty. These disciplines include (but are not
limited to) anthropology, communication, economics, geography, political
science, psychology, and sociology. This program also helps support the
underlying SBES components of the Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental
Threats (FACETs) framework by prioritizing the communication of uncertainty and
probabilistic information. Specifically, this funding call supports
interdisciplinary work, applied research, and more broadly, social science
research that will advance theoretical findings into applications for the
operational forecast community.
Announcement
Number:
NOAA-OAR-WPO-2021-2006592
Closing
Date:
Letters
of Intent: September 22, 2020
Full
applications: November 18, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=328644
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