FY20 HFIP Competition: Awardees

Research proposals to advance NGGPS with the FV3 dynamical core will focus on accelerating coupled model development to improve forecast accuracy. This includes coupling among the weather prediction model components (atmosphere, ocean, land surface and ice system), advancing data assimilation and ensemble techniques, and developing post-processing forecast tools and improving deterministic forecast skill by improving computational efficiency (see details in NOAA-NWS-NWSPO-2020-2006290).

For the HFIP competition, 3 proposals were awarded with individual award amounts ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 per year for up to two years. Project start date is September 1, 2020. Details of the projects are summarized in the table below.

Project Title     
PI/co-PIs
Affiliation
Extending The Tropical Cyclone Genesis Index To Global Ensemble Forecasts

Alan Brammer

Andrea Schumacher

CIRA/CSU
Dustin Grogan University at Albany, SUNY
Developing Regional Ocean Modeling Capabilities with MOM6 for use in the UFS Enrique Curchister Rutgers
Application of Innovation Statistics to Diagnose Biases in the HAFS System Ryan Torn University at Albany, SUN