The Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) program supports continuing, focused activities that leverage NOAA’s large volume of in-situ and remotely-sensed observations to develop data products of essential climate variables and processes needed to understand the climate system on time scales ranging from days to a century, and longer. Primary objectives are to support work that 1) provides usable and findable datasets to enable further monitoring and modeling efforts by research and operational communities and 2) builds authoritative, long-term datasets and analyses for assessment activities.
The ERB program in CPO is the competitive research arm of NOAA’s ERB Initiative to investigate natural and human activities that might alter the reflectivity of the stratosphere and the marine boundary layer, and the potential impact of those activities on the Earth system. ERB seeks to improve the understanding of aerosol impacts on Earth’s energy balance through: establishing a capability to observe and monitor stratospheric conditions; detecting and accurately simulating the impacts of natural and human-caused aerosol injections in the stratosphere and troposphere; and deriving co-benefits for Earth system prediction through a better understanding of aerosols and clouds.
AC4 is a competitive research program in CPO that incorporates research on atmospheric chemistry and the carbon cycle. In collaboration with the NOAA Laboratories and the academic community, the AC4 program supports research to determine the processes governing atmospheric concentrations of trace gases and aerosols in the context of the Earth System. Theprogram aims to contribute a process-level understanding of the Earth System through observation, modeling, analysis and field studies to support the development and improvement of models and to inform carbon and air pollution management efforts.
In FY 2025, the COM, ERB, and AC4 programs are jointly soliciting proposals that leverage observational data from uncrewed aircraft, terrestrial, and marine systems, collectively known as uncrewed systems (UxS), for climate applications.
Application Deadline: Letters of intent (LOIs) due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on September 18, 2024; full applications due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on December 9, 2024.
