Infrastructure Cluster
Oversight of AGS research facilities, including NCAR, supports atmospheric and geospace sciences research.
This grant is no longer accepting proposals
U.S. National Science Foundation has archived this opportunity.
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation
Due Dates: Archived — proposals are not accepted (PD-24-7791)
Funding Amounts: No cost sharing or matching required
Summary: Supports shared facilities, instrumentation, data infrastructure, and computing that enable atmospheric and geospace sciences research.
Key Information: LAOF and large geospace observatory proposals are accepted by invitation only.
Description
The Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) Infrastructure Cluster is administered by the U.S. National Science Foundation. It oversees facilities that enable research in atmospheric and geospace sciences, primarily the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Its support also covers community-based instrumentation and facilities, data storage and provisioning, research aircraft, supercomputers, and community-governed models of atmospheric processes.
The cluster supports infrastructure that provides the scientific community with capabilities beyond the reach of individual universities. Its activities include atmospheric fieldwork and laboratory instrumentation, geospace observatories and distributed instrument arrays, open access to data products, cross-boundary studies, open-source software, modeling capabilities, and community data distribution services. NCAR also supports training for the next generation of Earth system scientists.
