Deadline: 17-Nov-21
The Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce have announce the 2022 Weather Program Office Research Programs.
NOAA’s Weather Program Office (WPO; formerly OWAQ, the Office of Weather and Air Quality) is soliciting proposals for weather, atmospheric composition, 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 fire weather and social, behavioral, and economic science.
Program Priorities
- Fire Weather & Atmospheric Composition:
- Fire Weather: OAR WPO invites research and development proposals to improve fire weather forecast information and delivery. This program will support new research into the coupled Unified Forecast System (UFS) for both the short-term fire-atmosphere and subseasonal to climate scale modeling systems.
- Atmospheric Composition: Air quality has improved significantly in recent decades following passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970. Yet, there are still many areas of the country exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants harming human health and damaging sensitive ecosystems.
- VORTEX-USA: VORTEX-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) is a Congressionally authorized research program that has been ongoing since 2015. When examining measures of the threat posed by tornadoes to life and property, the southeastern U.S. has six of the eight most vulnerable states. Some of the vulnerability is due to issues such as a relatively large proportion of the population residing in mobile homes, which are known to be unsafe even in moderate strength tornadoes.
- Weather Testbeds: Project proposals submitted to this competition will focus on applied research and development, and, in particular, the demonstration and testing of that research in NOAA’s quasi-operational forecasting environment through engagement with one of NOAA’s testbeds.
- Joint Technology Transfer Initiative (JTTI): The purpose of this competition is to fund further development, testing and evaluation of mature weather research that has potential for improving NOAA’s NWS operational capabilities.
- Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S): The subseasonal to seasonal temporal range covers a wide range of phenomena with significant global and regional impacts on economies and human safety.
- Climate Testbed (CTB): In partnership with the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) and the Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), WPO is soliciting proposals involving the external community to advance NOAA’s operational subseasonal to seasonal prediction capabilities via the Climate Test Bed (CTB).
Funding Information
- Fire Weather & Atmospheric Composition
- Approximate total award funding per year: $5.0M
- Expected number of funded projects: 12-15
- Maximum funding limit per project per year: $350K
- Maximum Award Length: 3 years
- Start Date: August 1, 2022
- VORTEX-USA
- Approximate total award funding per year: $2.5M
- Expected number of funded projects: 4–7
- Maximum funding limit per project per year: $500K
- Maximum Award Length: 3 years
- Start Date: August 1, 2022
- Weather Testbeds
- Approximate total award funding per year: $2.5M
- Expected number of funded projects: 9–12
- Maximum funding limit per project per year: $250K
- Maximum Award Length: 3 years
- Start Date: August 1, 2022
- JTTI
- Approximate total award funding per year: $2.0M
- Expected number of funded projects: 6-7
- Maximum funding limit per project per year: $300K
- Maximum Award Length: 3 years
- Start Date: September 1, 2022
- S2S
- Approximate total award funding per year: $1.75M
- Expected number of funded projects: 5
- Maximum funding limit per project per year: $350K
- Maximum Award Length: 3 years
- Start Date: August 1, 2022
- CTB
- Approximate total award funding per year: $1.25M
- Expected number of funded projects: 4–5
- Maximum funding limit per project per year: $300K
- Maximum Award Length: 2 years
- Start Date: August 1, 2022
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they are eligible for the competition for which they are applying. If any applicants requesting funding are ineligible, the application(s) will be rejected without review.
- Eligible applicants are U.S. institutions of higher education; Cooperative Institutes; U.S.- based commercial organizations; state, local and Indian tribal governments in the U.S.; and U.S. non-profit organizations. No foreign (based outside of the U.S.) applicants may request funding. Federal employees and contractors proposing to perform work directly for NOAA may serve as co-Principal Investigators (co-PIs) or co-Investigators (co-Is) but are ineligible for their salary costs and are required to partner with one or more eligible non-federal institution(s) who would submit the application for the competition through Grants.gov.
- Any NOAA federal employee listed as a co-PI, co-I, or collaborator on the title page of a proposal (if eligible) must have provided explicit pre-approval to the PI to be identified as a contributor to the proposed project. Each collaborating NOAA federal institution (including NOAA centers, laboratories, and testbeds) should complete a NOAA Collaborator Acknowledgement Form and attach it to the proposal upon submission.
- All funded investigators must assure and verify if requested that they will not be allocated for greater than 100% of their annual employment time should their proposal be selected for funding. NOAA will verify this requirement if the proposal is recommended for funding.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335428