FY2015 Funded Projects

The following is a list of projects (showing the project title and the lead PI and institution) funded under the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) in FY2015. Discussions on the contractual details of each award were initiated at the appropriate funding agency.

For abstracts of each project and the partners involved, click on the project title.

Topic 1. Integrating the Hydrological Cycle for Improved Coastal and Global Forecasting

Funding for these awards is provided by the Office of Naval Research.

• An Integrated Hydrological Modeling System for High-Resolution Coastal Applications
  Lead PI: Dr. Teddy Holt, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey

Topic 2. Earth System Prediction Coupled Air-Sea Process Studies and Coupled Data Assimilation

Funding for these awards is provided by the Office of Naval Research.

• Towards the Development of a Coupled COAMPS-ROMS Ensemble Kalman Filter and Adjoint with a Focus on the Indian Ocean and the Intraseasonal Oscillation
  Lead PI: Dr. Andrew Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz

Topic 3. Seamless Forecasting from the Deep Ocean to the Coast

Funding for these awards is provided by the Office of Naval Research.

• Improving Global Surface and Internal Tides through Two-Way Coupling with High Resolution Coastal Models
  Lead PI: Maarten Buijsman, University of Southern Mississippi

• Modeling Intrinsic Variability and Connectivity in Shelf and Littoral Circulation
  Lead PI: Jim McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles

• Linking Surf Zone to the Inner-Shelf: Parameterizing Breaking-Wave Eddy Forcing and Effects of Transient Rip Currents
  Lead PI: Falk Feddersen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• Arctic Shelf and Large Rivers: Seamless Nesting in Global HYCOM
  Lead PI: Eric Chassignet, Florida State University

• Oceanic Energy Cascade from Global to Regional Predictive Models
  Lead PI: Bruce Cornuelle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• Russian Dolls: Nesting a Turbulent Large Eddy Simulation within a Nonhydrostatic Adaptive Grid Model within a 1/25 HYCOM Model
  Lead PI: Alberto Scotti, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Seamless Multiscale Forecasting: Hybridizable Unstructured-mesh Modeling and Conservative Two-way Nesting
  Lead PI: Pierre Lermusiaux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• A Multiscale Nested Modeling Framework to Simulate the Interaction of Surface Gravity Waves with Nonlinear Internal Gravity Waves
  Lead PI: Oliver Fringer, Stanford University