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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Program Office (WPO) has released its fiscal year (FY) 2022 solicitation for approximately 56 new awards with a total of $16.5 million in available funds per year. This annual competition series has ever-changing areas of focus with some year-to-year overlap. This year’s topics span from weather and oceanic observations, earth system modeling, atmospheric science, and related social and economic impacts. The six competitions for FY 2022 are:
1. Fire Weather & Atmospheric Composition (FWAC) – Projects will develop decision support and forecasting tools to provide guidance for active, threatened, and after-effects of wildfires.
a. Anticipating 12-15 projects each receiving a maximum of $1.05 million over three years.
2. Climate Testbed (CTB) – Successful applicants will develop prediction and modeling methods to assist in long- and short-term decision making. The program is especially interested in precipitation prediction.
a. Anticipating 4-5 projects each receiving a maximum of $600 thousand over two years.
3. Weather Testbeds – Projects will work in partnership with one of NOAA’s existing weather- related testbeds to develop applied research and demonstration on high impact weather events including but not limited to flooding, coastal storms, snow and ice, and tornados.
a. Anticipating 9-12 projects each receiving a maximum of $750 thousand over three years.
4. Joint Technology Transfer Initiative (JTTI) – Awardees will seek to expand upon mature weather research to help reduce the loss of life and property during extreme weather events to improve the National Weather Service’s operations. Emphasis for this year’s competition will be on artificial intelligence for short term weather prediction, equity and impact disparities of weather events, and technical improvements to decision support services for on-the-ground practitioners.
a. Anticipating 6-7 projects each receiving a maximum of $900 thousand over three years.
5. Subseasonal-to seasonal (S2S) – This program seeks to improve resilience to both long- and short-term weather readiness through modeling and prediction. This competition will support all stages of research.
a. Anticipating 5 projects each receiving a maximum of $1.05 million over three years.
6. Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment in the United States (VORTEX- USA) – This competition expands upon the work of VORTEX- Southeast, which focuses on tornado research in the Southeastern region, to develop advanced tornado prediction models and supports for the entire country and continuing work in the Southeast.
a. Anticipating 4-7 projects each receiving a maximum of $1.5 million over three years.
Deadlines: Letters of Intent, which are strongly encouraged but not required, are due at 5:00 p.m. ET on September 14, 2021 and full applications are due by 5:00 p.m. ET on November 17, 2021.
Award Information: NOAA anticipates granting 56 new awards with a total of $16.5 million in available funds per year, a significant increase over the previous year’s competitions which totaled $7.75 million per year.
Eligibility: Any U.S. institution of higher education, non-profit, or state and local government is eligible to apply; see details of each competition for specifics. There is no cost-sharing requirement.
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