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The U.S. CLIVAR Project Office is coordinating a new activity to provide support for research into the physical and dynamical mechanisms leading to drought and the mechanisms through which drought may change as climate changes. This new program, Drought in Coupled Models Project (DRICOMP), focuses on evaluation of a variety of existing model products to address issues such as the roles of the oceans and the seasonal cycle in drought, the impacts of drought on water availability, and distinctions between drought and drying. Several CLIVAR and Climate Change Science Program agencies, NSF, NOAA, NASA, and DOE, plan, subject to the availability of funds, to support 15-20 one-year awards at $30,000 as supplements or small grants to PIs for this research. The full announcement can be viewed at www.usclivar.org
The objective of DRICOMP is to increase community-wide diagnostic research into the physical mechanisms of drought and to evaluate its simulation in current models. DRICOMP will lead to more robust evaluations of model projections of drought risk and severity, and thus to a better quantification of the uncertainty in such projections.
Coupled global model simulations are available from roughly fourteen modeling groups worldwide, including, for the U.S., NCAR, GFDL and GISS. These U.S. Centers and the funding agencies invite climate scientists to propose diagnostic studies to use existing observational datasets to diagnose and evaluate the simulations for the occurrence and mechanisms of drought. Model output and selected observational data sets for the research are available from PCMDI and elsewhere (see Table 1).The research to be funded is expected to commence in September 2007. Successful PIs will be expected to participate in and discuss their results at a workshop to be convened in spring 2008.
DRICOMP follows the highly successful CMEP (Coupled Model Evaluation Project - http://www.usclivar.org/science.html) that supported more than 20 projects, the results of which were presented at an international workshop in March 2005 and subsequently in more than 25 journal articles.
Eligibility
Any investigator from a U.S. institution, government, or non-government, is eligible, except those from any of the four participating centers: NCAR, GFDL, GISS, and PCMDI. Collaboration with principal scientists in these centers is encouraged. However, funding for PIs in these centers (if required) is outside this competition and is not guaranteed. PIs from the centers should contact program mangers from their respective agencies for guidance.
Proposals
Proposals must be responsive to the objective and goals outlined above.
The proposals must include
A project summary 1 page or less
Project description 5 pages, including a work plan and time line, figures and references,
Budget
CV(s)
The five-page project description should focus on what will be done and how, rather than general background science.
Budgets must be no more than $30,000 (except under extraordinary circumstances that must be justified). Travel funds for the spring 2008 workshop should not be included in the proposal budget; they will be provided separately. At least one U.S. modeling center’s simulations must be analyzed. More than one is strongly encouraged.
Proposals should be sent INFORMALLY by email (PDF format) to Cathy Stephens, at the U.S. CLIVAR Office, dricomp@usclivar.org, by no later than 5 pm EDT, March 15, 2007. DO NOT SUBMIT THE PROPOSAL TO A FUNDING AGENCY AT THIS TIME. Successful PIs will be contacted by the funding agencies on May15, 2007.
The opportunity provides funds for organizations to assess and integrate Earth science data into
national/regional decision support systems that the organizations (and
the users they support) employ in their decision making processes.
The proposals are due May 25th. The solicitation asks for Notices of
Intent (NOI) by March 15th -- NOIs are preferred but optional,
especially given the timing. We expect to fund about 20 projects for 3
years, and each project is approx. $240K-320K per year for three years.
Preapplication due March 22, 2007. APPLICATION DUE DATE: May 7, 2007.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/FAPN07-24.html
This Notice requests applications for grants, both new and renewal that address the ARM goal of improving the accuracy of climate model simulations by enhancing the representation of cloud and radiation processes in climate models. The research areas of interest include the development of algorithms for retrieving the required measurements from ARM instruments, studies utilizing ARM data to improve the understanding of cloud and radiation physical processes, the translation of process study results into process models and parameterizations, and the incorporation of the submodels into climate models. Research to develop tools and methodologies for making ARM data more useful for the development and testing of climate models is especially encouraged. Modeling areas of interest include convection triggering conditions, closure assumptions, mechanisms and magnitudes of convective and mesoscale updrafts and downdrafts, convection-PBL interactions, and interactions of 3-D cloud and radiative processes.
pecific areas of interest to the ARM program follow:
o Developing and testing methodologies to use ARM observations in atmospheric models, both at the cloud resolving model scale and the global climate model scale.
o Incorporating new findings from the ARM data analysis into the cloud resolving or in the 1-D and 3-D versions of GCMs. Applicants are encouraged to review the research status of the ARM data analysis and products available at URL http://www.arm.gov/data/ and http://stm.arm.gov/pastmeetings.stm
o Improving existing or developing new radiation and cloud parameterizations for global models using ARM observations.
o Developing new techniques to retrieve and analyze the properties of different types of clouds, with a special focus on the properties of deep convective clouds and ice and mixed-phase clouds.
o Analyzing data obtained from MPACE, TWP-ICE, CLASIC, and COPS field campaigns, and evaluating model simulations against observed clouds and their properties.
o Conducting analyses to improve our understanding of cloud and radiation processes including the 3-D cloud-radiation process at scales from the local atmospheric column to the GCM grid square and the relationship between atmospheric radiation and the life- cycle of tropical and high latitude clouds.
o Quantifying the effects of aerosols on cloud properties and the resulting radiation field, using a combination of ARM observations and physical models.
Applications are limited to those that utilize ARM generated data in the proposed research. Applications for instrument development will not be considered. Applications that require a special field campaign, which has not already been planned and approved by the ARM Climate Research Facility Program Manager, will not be accepted for consideration. For approved campaigns see ( http://www.db.arm.gov/cgi-bin/IOP/iops.pl.)
All applications submitted in response to this Notice must explicitly state how the proposed research will support accomplishment of the BER CCRD's Long Term Measure of Scientific Advancement: "Deliver improved scientific data and models about the potential response of the Earth's climate and terrestrial biosphere to increased greenhouse gas levels for policy makers to determine safe levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."