OpportunityTitle: Round 3 of Research to Operations Initiative: NGGPS and HFIP
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education, profit organizations (profit and non-profit), and federally funded educational institutions such as the Naval Postgraduate School.  This restriction is needed because the results of the collaboration are to be incorporated in processes which ensure academic multidisciplinary peer review as well as federal review of scientific validity for use in operations.  Federal applicants from federally funded educational institutions must demonstrate that they have legal authority to receive funds from another federal agency in excess of their appropriation.  All other federal government employees (including federal contractors) are not eligible to be funded through this announcement.
Description: This program announcement is for projects to be conducted for a two-year period with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2018 unless otherwise directed. Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education and federally funded educational institutions such as the Naval Postgraduate School.The purpose of the NOAA Research to Operations (R2O) Initiative is to expand and accelerate critical weather forecasting research to operations to address growing service demands and increase the accuracy of weather forecasts. This will be achieved through: (1) accelerated development and implementation of improved global weather prediction models and inclusion of the coupling among atmosphere, ocean, land surface and ice system components; (2) improved data assimilation techniques; (3) nested regional prediction capabilities; (4) improved hurricane and tropical cyclone modeling techniques; (5) improved ensemble techniques; (6) post-processing forecast tools and techniques; and (7) improved software architecture and system engineering.The R2O Initiative is soliciting proposals for projects involving applied science, modeling and/or data assimilation that support development of the Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) at global and regional scales. The NOAA R2O Initiative is also soliciting proposals for the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) initiative to engage and coordinate hurricane research required to improve operational hurricane forecasts and meet societal requirements to effectively mitigate economic disruption. This notice provides guidelines for submission of proposals. This notice also describes opportunities and application procedures to demonstrate capabilities that have the potential to be incorporated into operational NWS numerical weather prediction (NWP) analyses and forecasts. The R2O Initiative addresses NOAA&apos;s Weather Ready Nation (WRN) strategic goal and supporting objectives.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Work
GrantorContactText: Christopher   Hedge 301-427-9242 1325 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3283