Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics
Funding Agency:
- NASA
The Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics Focus Area (WADFA, 33TUhttps://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/programs/research-analysis/earth-...) supports research to obtain accurate measurements of the atmosphere that help improve the understanding and prediction of weather at local, regional, and global scales. Weather includes meteorological phenomena ranging from localized microphysical processes that occur in minutes, to global-scale phenomena that can last an entire season. WADFA supports research to measure winds, temperature, humidity, and pressure from space with the aim of improving the knowledge of the fundamental processes that drive meteorological phenomena. As a result, this focus area is core to the Agency’s goal of understanding of the Earth system, as the dynamic and thermodynamic processes of Earth’s weather link to other focus areas in the Earth Science Division. This program element of ROSES-2022 solicits research using NASA data to advance our understanding of processes relevant to WADFA. There are no limitations on the spatial and geographic scope of solicited efforts, but studies must link to meteorological and tropospheric phenomena. Proposed research should target processes that are relevant to the spatiotemporal cadence of the observations; however, the incorporation of methods that enable use of study observations to understand multi-scale phenomena is not precluded. Proposals must explicitly focus on remote sensing, and may utilize observations, reanalyses, assimilation, and model capabilities to perform the proposed science.
Expected program budget for first year of new awards: $1,250,000
November 2, 2022
Will McCarty Email: 33Twill.mccarty@nasa.gov33T and Aaron Piña Email: 33Taaron.pina@nasa.gov33T