OpportunityTitle: Hydrologic Research
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are Federal agencies; institutions   of higher education; other nonprofits; commercial organizations;   foreign governments; organizations under the jurisdiction of foreign   governments; international organizations; state, local and Indian   tribal governments. Applications from non Federal and Federal   applicants will be competed against each other.    Proposals selected for funding from non Federal applicants will be   funded through a project grant or cooperative agreement under the terms   of this notice. Proposals selected for funding from NOAA scientists   shall be effected by an intra agency fund transfer. Proposals selected   for funding from a non NOAA Federal agency will be funded through an   inter-agency transfer.        Please Note: Before non-NOAA Federal applicants may be funded,   they must demonstrate that they have legal authority to receive   funds from another Federal agency in excess of their appropriation.   Because this announcement is not proposing to procure goods or   services from applicants, the Economy Act (31 U.S.C. 1535) is not an   appropriate legal basis.
Description: This program represents a NOAA/NWS effort to create a cost-effective continuum of basic and applied research through collaborative research between the Hydrology Laboratory of the NWS Office of Hydrologic Development and academic communities or other private or public agencies which have expertise in the hydrometeorologic, hydrologic, and hydraulic routing sciences, as well as those aspects of social sciences that apply to hydrologic and water resources forecasting and how information on those forecasts is distributed and assimilated by managers and the public. These activities will engage researchers and students in basic and applied research to improve the scientific understanding of river forecasting. Ultimately these efforts will improve the accuracy of forecasts and warnings of rivers and flash floods by applying scientific knowledge and information to NWS research methods and techniques, resulting in a benefit to the public. NOAA&apos;s program is designed to complement other agency contributions to that national effort. This Program addresses two NOAA goals: (1) Understand Climate Variability and Change To Enhance Society&apos;s Ability To Plan and Respond and (2) Serve Society&apos;s Needs for Weather and Water Information. NOAA will give sole attention to individual proposals addressing the following science priority: Use of weather observations and weather and climate forecasts for the improvement of hydrologic and water resources forecasts. The Office of Hydrologic Development is interested in receiving proposals that demonstrate the use of in situ and remote sensing techniques for weather, hydrologic and water resources observations; numerical weather and climate forecasts; and coupled surface and groundwater systems, to demonstrate how the combination of those techniques could enhance hydrologic and water resources forecasts. OHD is specifically interested in the use of cost- effective observation techniques that are applicable at high spatial resolution to large areas and that, in combination with land surface models, allow the estimation of soil moisture profiles in areas subject to artificial irrigation.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: For application download issues
GrantorContactText: Steve  Drescher &lt;br/&gt;Policy Advisor &lt;br/&gt;Phone 301-713-0926
CloseDateExplanation: Applications must be received and validated   by Grants.gov on or before 3 p.m. EST March 3, 2009.        Please Note: It may take Grants.gov up to two (2) business days   to validate or reject the application. Please keep this in mind in   developing your submission timeline. Both hard copy and electronic   proposals received after that time will not be considered for   funding and will be returned to the applicant. The submission date   on proposals submitted through Grants.gov will be the time and date   indicator in the Grants.gov submission. For proposals submitted by   hard copy, the submission date will be the time stamp on the   received documents.