← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Center For Research On The Changing Earth System, Inc., The
$2,343,479
Total funding
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Funding over time
peak $1.5M · FY2008–20$2M$1.5M$1M$500K$0
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USDA$1,608,900 · 2
NASA$734,579 · 4
By mechanism
—$2,343,479 · 6
Investigators at Center For Research On The Changing Earth System, Inc., The
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
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Largest grants
PREDICTABILITY AND PREDICTION OF DECADAL CLIMATE AND SOCIETAL IMPACTS IN THE MISSOURI RIVER BASIN: A REGIONAL STUDY INTEGRATING EARTH$1,534,000
· FY2011 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture
VIKRAM MEHTA/THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON THE CHANGING EARTH SYSTEM (CRCES) A DIAGNOSTIC STUDY OF THE INTERANNUAL TO DECADAL VARIABILITY OF THE WEST PA$294,546
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A DIAGNOSTIC STUDY OF THE INTERANNUAL TO DECADAL VARIABILITY OF THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES USING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING BASED A$197,101
· FY2009 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WE PROPOSE TO STUDY THE WEST PACIFIC WARM POOL (WPWP) S ANNUAL TO DECADAL VARIABILITY AND A WARMING TREND IN THE WPWP SEASURFACE TEMPERATURES (SSTS) WITH A PHYSICALLY-CONSISTENT OBSERVATIONALLY-CONSTRAINED GLOBAL OCEAN STATE ESTIMATE PRODUCED BY NASA S ESTIMATING THE CIRCULATION AND CLIMATE OF THE OCEANS (ECCO) PROJECT. SECONDARY GOALS ARE TO USE INSIGHTS FROM THE WPWP STUDY TO UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICS OF THE EAST INDIAN WARM POOL (EIWP) AND ITS VARIABILITY AND CHANGE AND RESPONSES OF THE WPWP AND EIWP TO VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. THE WPWP AND THE EIWP CONTAIN SOME OF THE WARMEST SEA WATER IN THE WORLD AND EACH COVERS OVER 10 MILLION KM2 SURFACE AREA. EVEN SMALL CHANGES IN THEIR SSTS CAN CAUSE LARGE CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION WHICH IN TURN CAN DRAMATICALLY ALTER ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS LOCALLY AND SIGNIFICANTLY MODIFY GLOBAL-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC WAVE ACTIVITY AND ATMOSPHERIC HEATING. THE WPWP SSTS EXHIBIT LARGE VARIATIONS ON INTERANNUAL DECADAL AND LONGER TIME SCALES WHICH INFLUENCE WORLDWIDE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS PRECIPITATION TEMPERATURES RIVER FLOWS CROP PRODUCTIONS AND FISH AND CRUSTACEAN CATCHES. SPECIFIC GOALS OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ARE: (1) TO DIAGNOSE ROLES OF SURFACE HEAT FLUX COMPONENTS AND OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT COMPONENTS IN MAINTAINING THE ANNUAL CYCLE OF WPWP S SSTS; (2) TO UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICS OF THE WPWP SSTS INTERANNUAL TO DECADAL VARIABILITY; (3) TO IDENTIFY CAUSE(S) OF A WARMING TREND IN THE WPWP SSTS; (4) TO IDENTIFY AND QUANTIFY PROCESSES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WPWP S RESPONSE TO LOWLATITUDE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; AND (5) TO DIAGNOSE PHYSICS OF THE EIWP VARIABILITY AT ANNUAL TO DECADAL TIMESCALES A WARMING TREND AND RESPONSE TO LOW-LATITUDE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NASA-JPL-ECCO GROUP. WE WILL USE ECCO VERSION 4 RELEASE 3(V4R3) OCEAN STATE ESTIMATE AT MONTHLY 1 X 1 LATITUDE-LONGITUDE RESOLUTION AT 50 LEVELS IN THE VERTICAL FROM JANUARY 1992 TO DECEMBER 2015 IN THIS RESEARCH. BASIC PROCESSES OF THE WPWP S ANNUAL CYCLE INTERANNUAL TO DECADAL VARIABILITY AND WARMING TREND WILL BE IDENTIFIED WITH DIAGNOSES OF THE WPWP S HEAT BUDGET. FURTHER DECOMPOSITION OF THE PROCESSES WILL THEN BE CARRIED OUT TO IDENTIFY THE MOST IMPORTANT KINEMATIC AND SURFACE HEAT FLUX COMPONENTS. PRELIMINARY ANALYSES OF ECCO V4R3 SST ESTIMATE SHOW THAT ANNUAL CYCLE OF WPWP AND EIWP SST PATTERNS AND THE TWO SST INDICES INTERANNUAL TO DECADAL VARIABILITY AND WARMING TRENDS ARE CAPTURED BY THE ESTIMATE. ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN LOW-LATITUDE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND PRONOUNCED COOLING OF THE WPWP ARE ALSO APPARENT. THEREFORE THE ECCOV4R3 ESTIMATE CAN BE USED TO INFER CAUSAL MECHANISMS OF OBSERVED VARIABILITY AND WARMING TRENDS AND RESPONSES TO VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. THE EXPERIENCE OF THE WPWP ANALYSES WILL THEN BE USED TO CONDUCT ANALYSES OF THE EIWP. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ADDRESSES RESEARCH THEME-1 ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE OCEAN CIRCULATION USING SATELLITE AND IN SITU DATA DATA-DERIVED PRODUCTS AND NASA OCEAN STATE ESTIMATES (E.G. ECCO - ESTIMATING THE CIRCULATION AND CLIMATE OF THE OCEANS) OF THE NASA-PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY SOLICITATION. IT ALSO ADDRESSES FOUR OF US-CLIVAR S GOALS: UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF THE OCEANS IN OBSERVED CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON DIFFERENT TIMESCALES UNDERSTAND THE PROCESSES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE BETTER QUANTIFY UNCERTAINTY IN THE OBSERVATIONS SIMULATIONS PREDICTIONS AND PROJECTIONS OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE AND IMPROVE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF CLIMATE SIMULATIONS AND PREDICTIONS . IN ADDITION THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL ALSO ADDRESS THE US-CLIVAR RESEARCH CHALLENGE ON DECADAL VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY . RESULTS OF THIS STUDY MAY ALSO SHED IMPORTANT LIGHT ON WHY GLOBAL EARTH SYSTEM MODELS ARE NOT ABLE TO SIMULATE THE WPWP AND THE EIWP THEIR ANNUAL CYCLES AND THEIR INTERANNUAL TO DECADAL VARIABILITY ACCURATELY. ..........$152,691
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON THE CHANGING EARTH SYSTEM (CRCES) PROPOSES A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH NASA TO PROVIDE ANALYSIS AND POLICY PLANNING EXPER$90,241
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
PREDICTABILITY AND PREDICTION OF DECADAL CLIMATE AND SOCIETAL IMPACTS IN THE MISSOURI RIVER BASIN: A REGIONAL STUDY INTEGRATING EARTH$74,900
· FY2016 · National Institute of Food and Agriculture