Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics
Funds research on atmospheric and climate processes, modeling, and data analysis, encouraging diverse researchers and interdisciplinary collaboration with other NSF programs.
This grant is no longer accepting proposals
U.S. National Science Foundation has archived this opportunity.
Funder: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Due Dates: Archived (no current deadlines)
Funding Amounts: Not specified; typical NSF grants vary by project scope and duration.
Summary: Supports research advancing understanding of atmospheric synoptic and planetary circulation, weather, and climate processes, including modeling and data analysis.
Key Information: This program is archived; proposals spanning multiple NSF divisions must follow respective deadlines; encourages diverse applicants including early-career and underrepresented groups.
Description
The Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics (CLD) program, formerly supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), aimed to advance knowledge of the atmospheric processes that govern synoptic and planetary circulation, weather, and climate. It also sought to sustain a strong pool of researchers in synoptic and global atmospheric dynamics and climate science.
Research supported by this program included theoretical, observational, and modeling studies of:
- General circulation of the stratosphere and troposphere
- Synoptic scale weather phenomena
- Climate governing processes and causes of climate variability and change
- Methods for predicting climate variations and extended weather/climate predictability
- Development and testing of parameterizations of physical processes
- Numerical methods for large-scale weather and climate models
- Assembly and analysis of instrumental and modeled weather and climate data
- Data assimilation studies
- Development and use of climate models to diagnose and simulate climate variations and change
The program often co-reviewed multidisciplinary proposals with other NSF divisions such as ocean sciences, ecological sciences, hydrological sciences, geography and regional sciences, applied math, and statistics. Proposals spanning multiple disciplines needed to be submitted according to the deadlines of the relevant programs.
CLD strongly encouraged proposals from principal investigators (PIs) at all career stages, including postdoctoral fellows, and from a wide range of institution types such as Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), non-R1 institutions, and those in EPSCoR jurisdictions. It also emphasized inclusion of PIs from traditionally underrepresented groups in atmospheric sciences.
Note: This funding opportunity is archived and no longer accepting proposals. Awards made after October 1, 2024, are subject to updated NSF award conditions consistent with revised federal guidance.
