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http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/c&gc/ao/2001/fy2001.htm
PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Climate and Global Change Program
FY 2001

Program Descriptions and Timetable

The following information was published in the Federal Register on 25 August 2000.

SUMMARY: The Climate and Global Change Program represents a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) contribution to evolving national and international programs designed to improve our ability to observe, understand, predict, and respond to changes in the global environment. This program builds on NOAA's mission requirements and longstanding capabilities in global change research and prediction. The NOAA Program is a key contributing element of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which is coordinated by the interagency Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources. NOAA’s program is designed to complement other agency contributions to that national effort.

Schedule and Proposal Submission: All submissions should be directed to the Office of Global Programs (OGP) at:

Office of Global Programs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1210
Silver Spring, MD 20910-5603

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irma duPree at the above address, or at (301)427-2089 ext. 107, fax: (301)427-2222, Internet: irma.duPree@noaa.gov .

For submission to programs that do not involve joint announcements, strict deadlines for submission to the FY 2001 process are:

Letters of intent must be received at OGP no later than September 24, 2000.

Full proposals must be received at OGP no later than November 30, 2000.

For submission to programs that involve joint announcements, deadlines are listed in the program descriptions below or on joint announcements.

Applicants who have not received a response to their letter of intent within four weeks should contact the Program Manager. The time from receipt of proposals to grant award varies by program area. We anticipate that review of full proposals will occur during November 2000 through March 2001, and funding should begin during the spring of 2001 for most approved projects. Applicants should be notified of their status within six months. May 1, 2001, should be used as the proposed start date on proposals, unless otherwise directed by the appropriate Program Manager. All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the guidelines below. Failure to heed these guidelines may result in proposals being returned without review.

Funding Availability: NOAA believes that the Climate and Global Change Program will benefit significantly from a strong partnership with outside investigators. Current Program plans assume that over 50% of the total resources provided through this announcement will support extramural efforts, particularly those involving the broad academic community. However, please be advised that actual funding levels will depend upon the final FY 2001 budget appropriations. This Program Announcement is for projects to be conducted by investigators both inside and outside of NOAA, primarily over a one, two or three year period. The NOAA Climate and Global Change Program has been approved for multi-year funding up to a three year duration. The funding instrument for extramural awards will be a grant unless it is anticipated that NOAA will be substantially involved in the implementation of the project, in which case the funding instrument should be a cooperative agreement. Examples of substantial involvement may include but are not limited to proposals for collaboration between NOAA or NOAA scientists and a recipient scientist or technician and/or contemplation by NOAA of detailing Federal personnel to work on proposed projects. NOAA will make decisions regarding the use of a cooperative agreement on a case-by-case basis. Funding for contractual arrangements for services and products for delivery to NOAA is not available under this announcement. Matching share is not required by this program.

Program Authority: 49 U.S.C. 44720 (b); 33 U.S.C. 883d; 15 U.S.C. 2904; 15 U.S.C. 2931 et seq.; (CFDA No. 11.431) - CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

Program Objectives: The long term objective of the Climate and Global Change Program is to provide reliable predictions of climate variability and change with associated regional implications on time scales ranging from seasons to a century or more. NOAA believes that climate variability across these time scales can be modeled with an acceptable probability of success and are the most relevant for fundamental social concerns. Predicting the behavior of the coupled ocean-atmosphere-land surface system will be NOAA’s primary contribution to a successful national effort to deal with observed or anticipated changes in the global environment. NOAA has a range of unique facilities and capabilities that can be applied to Climate and Global Change investigations. Proposals that seek to exploit these resources in collaborative efforts between NOAA and extramural investigators are encouraged.

Program Priorities: In FY 2001, NOAA will give priority attention to individual proposals in the Main Program Elements listed below. The names, affiliations and phone numbers of relevant Climate and Global Change Program Managers are provided. Funding for some programs may be limited to ongoing projects or may be used to fund projects proposed in FY 2000 that were unable to be funded due to budgetary circumstances. Prospective applicants should communicate with Program Managers for information on priorities within program elements and prospects for funding.

Aerosols - This program element focuses on field measurements and modeling of aerosol properties and distributions, with an emphasis on improving the predictive understanding of the role of aerosols in climate forcing. Due to budgetary limitations, funding may not be available for new grants in FY 2001; prospective investigators are urged to check the Climate & Global Change Program web page for current funding status and priorities prior to submitting letters or proposals. For further information please contact Joel M. Levy, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext.111, Internet: joel.levy@noaa.gov .


Atmospheric Chemistry - The Atmospheric Chemistry Project focuses on global monitoring, process-oriented laboratory and field studies, and theoretical modeling to improve the predictive understanding of the atmospheric trace species that influence the earth's chemical and radiative balance and the variation of the concentration of these trace species regionally and seasonally. For an information sheet containing further details and current priorities, please contact: Joel M. Levy, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext.111, Internet: joel.levy@noaa.gov ; or Fred C. Fehsenfeld, NOAA/Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, CO, 303-497-5819, Internet: fcf@al.noaa.gov .


Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI): Research on Vulnerability, Opportunities, and Response Options. Variability, change, and surprise results from a wide variety of climatological, social, economic and ecological circumstances and interactions. The purpose of this program is to increase understanding of the impacts of climate variability and change as conditioned by ongoing processes of decision-making and socio-economic transformation. The suite of efforts is intended to further research-based integration between studies of the whole of the climate system, including human components, such as health, and evolving informational and educational needs of decision-makers in climate sensitive sectors around the world. The goal is to provide the basis for more effective application of climate information, including climate forecasts, for purposes of adaptation. The intent of this program is to encourage overlapping research approaches to integrate knowledge for problem solving. The CSI is a chapeau for a suite of activities; prospective applicants must apply to one of the following program elements:
Human Dimensions of Global Change Research (HDGCR): The Human Dimensions of Global Change Research program is aimed at understanding how social and economic systems are currently influenced by fluctuations in climate, and how human behavior can be (or why it may not be) affected based on information about variability in the climate system. Because of expected budget constraints, this program will not accept new applications for projects; only renewal and continuation applications will be considered. For more information and an information sheet on general program objectives, contact: Caitlin Simpson, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext. 152, Internet: simpson@ogp.noaa.gov .

A joint interagency announcement on Climate and Health. (For more information contact Juli Trtanj, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext. 134, Internet: trtanj@ogp.noaa.gov .)

Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments: This Program Element was formerly titled Regional Assessments. NOAA’s present program of Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments possesses three distinct qualities: (1) Interdisciplinarity, integration and synthesis; (2) Bridging the gap between climatic, environmental and societal interactions on different temporal and spatial scales; and (3) Decision support and services. It requires innovative partnerships among a spectrum of interests (Federal, State, local and private) to enable regional organizational capacity to develop accurate (i.e., identifying risks, uncertainties, and/or indeterminacies), balanced syntheses and services on an ongoing basis. As such, the program relies heavily on consolidating the results and data from ongoing NOAA-OGP disciplinary program elements, already funded in a region, into an integrated framework. This program will not accept applications to initiate new activities, but will accept renewal applications for ongoing efforts or as part of ongoing negotiations. For more information and a detailed information sheet, contact: Roger Pulwarty, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext. 103, Internet: pulwarty@ogp.noaa.gov .

Climate Change Data and Detection: The scientific goals of this element include efforts to: (1) provide data and information management support activities needed to assure the availability of critical data sets from a variety of national and international programs of primary interest to NOAA's Climate and Global Change Program, e.g., the CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) Program, GEWEX (Global Energy & Water Cycle Experiment), GCOS (Global Climate Observing System), National and International Assessments, etc.; (2) provide data and information management support related to cross cutting science efforts necessary to assess seasonal, interannual, decadal, and longer climate variations and changes; (3) document the quantitative character of observed climate variations and changes; and (4) attribute changes in the observed climate record to specific climate forcings.
NOAA/NASA Jointly Sponsored Project: A number of new starts are anticipated within the NOAA/National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) co-sponsored project that supports research in the areas of data fusion and enhancement of climate data sets through the use of space and/or ground based observations. Preference will be given to those proposals that use more than one observing system to develop a blended data set.

"NOAA/DOE Jointly Sponsored Project: The NOAA/Department of Energy (DOE) co-sponsored project addresses all aspects of Climate Change Detection and Attribution. One- and two-year proposals are specifically encouraged."

Additional details on the jointly sponsored projects are provided on the supplementary fact sheet included in the Program Announcement mailing (additional copies of the supplementary fact sheet can be obtained from Irma duPree at the Office of Global Programs). For further information contact: Bill Murray, NOAA/Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext. 133, Internet: murray@ogp.noaa.gov ; Chris Miller, NOAA/Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext. 143, Internet: miller@ogp.noaa.gov ; Martha Maiden, NASA/Headquarters, 202/358-1078, Internet: maiden@hq.nasa.gov ; or Rick Petty, DOE/Environmental Sciences Division, Germantown, MD; 301-903-5548, Internet:

Climate Dynamics and Experimental Prediction: Climate Dynamics and Experimental Prediction - This program will not accept applications to initiate centers at new institutions, but will accept renewal applications for ongoing efforts or as part of ongoing negotiations. Qualified applications for this program may be submitted throughout the year. For further information, contact Phil Arkin, NOAA/Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD; telephone: 301-427-2089 ext. 116, Internet: arkin@ogp.noaa.gov .


Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR): CLIVAR focuses on the role of the coupled ocean and atmosphere within the overall climate system, with emphasis on variability, especially within the oceans, on seasonal to centennial time scales. CLIVAR intends to explore predictability and how to improve predictions of climate variability and climate change using existing, reanalyzed, and new global observations, enhanced coupled ocean-atmosphere-land-ice models and paleoclimate records. A separate program announcement for CLIVAR will be issued later this year inviting proposals for CLIVAR Atlantic, CLIVAR Pacific (formerly GOALS), and CLIVAR PACS. Investigators interested in these program areas are encouraged to respond to this later announcement. For further information on the Atlantic, please contact James Todd, NOAA/Global Programs, 301/427-2089 ext. 139, Internet: james.todd@noaa.gov  For the Pacific and PACS efforts, please contact, Michael Patterson, NOAA/Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext. 102, Internet: michael.patterson@noaa.gov .


Economics and Human Dimensions of Climate Fluctuations: Please see Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI) above.


GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP) is transitioning into GAPP (GEWEX America Prediction Project) during this fiscal year. Details about GAPP are available in a GAPP prospectus and draft Science Plan and Implementation Strategy that are available from the GAPP program manager. Initiatives are solicited that will facilitate the implementation of this new program. In addition to continuing its focus on the Mississippi River Basin, GAPP is also interested in initiatives in the semi-arid southwestern US and on the Pacific coast. In particular, new initiatives are solicited in the following areas:
1) land memory processes: GAPP is interested in determining the contributions of the following processes to predictability at seasonal time scales: soil moisture, orography (including its interaction with the Great Plains low level jet), vegetation and snow cover. It is anticipated that these issues will be addressed through a combination of modeling and diagnostic studies.

2) model transferability studies and enriched data collection activities that support the US contribution to the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP). The target basins for transferability studies include other Continental Scale Experiment areas as well as the Saskatchewan and Rio del Plata River Basins. CEOP-related studies that facilitate the enhanced use of remote sensing data for land surface modeling and precipitation are also welcome.

3) scientific investigations aimed at overcoming limitations to the use of climate forecasts in the management of water resources (e.g., issues such as downscaling, probabilistic forecasts, etc.)

Projects approved in this call will be funded by both NOAA and NASA. It is anticipated that either in FY2001 or FY2002 another joint PACS/GAPP call dealing with the monsoonal aspects of GAPP will be issued. For more details regarding GAPP, please see the draft Science Plan at http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/mpe/gcip/index.htm . Questions regarding this call should be directed to Rick Lawford at lawford@ogp.noaa.gov  or (301)-427-2089 Ext. 146.

Global Carbon Cycle (GCC): GCC focuses on global observations, process-oriented field studies and modeling to improve our ability to predict the fate of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), and future atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Due to budgetary limitations, funding is not expected to be available for new applications in FY 2001; however, prospective investigators should check the Global Carbon Cycle web page (see below) for current funding priorities. For an information sheet containing further details and the current priorities, please contact Lisa Dilling, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, 301-427-2089 ext. 106, Internet: dilling@ogp.noaa.gov  or see the web at: http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/mpe/gcc/index.html 


Global Ocean - Atmosphere - Land System (GOALS): Please see Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) above.


Pan-American Climate Studies (PACS): Please see Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) above.


Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Study (OACES): Please see Global Carbon Cycle (GCC) above.


Paleoclimatology: The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program will entertain proposals that support the joint WCRP CLIVAR/IGBP PAGES Research Initiative. This initiative is jointly supported by NOAA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Earth System History (ESH) Program at NSF. All proposals must be submitted to the NSF/ESH Program by February 14 each year. For more information, please contact Mark Eakin, NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO; 303-497-6172, Internet: mark.eakin@noaa.gov ; Ken Mooney, NOAA/Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD; 301-427-2089 ext. 104, Internet: mooney@ogp.noaa.gov ; Richard Poore, NSF Ocean Sciences Division (OCE) Program, Arlington, VA; 703-306-1586, Internet: rpoore@nsf.gov , or Steve Colman, NSF Atmospheric Sciences Division (ATM) Program, Arlington, VA; 703-306-1527, Internet: scolman@nsf.gov . Please visit http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/extramural.html  for more information on the program or http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf0011/nsf0011.html for the ESH announcement.
Eligibility: Extramural eligibility is not limited and is encouraged with the objective of developing a strong partnership with the academic community. Universities, non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations, State and local governments, and Indian Tribes, are included among entities eligible for funding under this announcement.

Since non-NOAA Federal agencies will be funded through an interagency transfer, a non-NOAA Federal applicant should state in the application what legal basis exists for them to receive funds in excess of its appropriation from another Federal agency.

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