Call For Planning Letters
Arctic and Global Prediction Program
Office of Naval Research
Planning letter deadline: Friday, 13 April 2012
For further information, please go to:
http://tinyurl.com/ONR-GlobalPredictionProgram
For questions, please contact:
Martin Jeffries
Email: martin.jeffries [at] navy.mil
Phone: 703-696-7825
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Arctic and Global Prediction Program
invites planning letters for research to be supported by 'core' program
funds beginning in FY13 (starts 1 October 2012).
The Arctic and Global Prediction Program is motivated by the rapid
decline in summer ice extent that has occurred in recent years. This has
prompted renewed U.S. Navy interest in understanding and predicting the
arctic physical environment at a variety of time and space scales. The
ability to predict the location of the ice edge, the space-time
evolution of the ice cover, and the ice thickness will be particularly
critical to safe Navy operations in the Arctic. To achieve this, models
integrating the ocean, waves, ice, and atmosphere must be able to
represent the physical processes, interactions, and feedbacks involved
in the seasonal evolution of ice extent, area, thickness, and volume.
Consequently, the program has three focus areas:
- Developing integrated ocean-ice-wave-atmosphere earth system
models for improved prediction at a variety of time scales;
- Improving understanding of the physical environment and processes
in the Arctic Ocean; and
- Investigating new technologies (e.g., sensors, platforms and
communications) for sustained operation and observation in the
challenging arctic environment.
The Arctic and Global Prediction Program is always interested in
receiving planning letters for research that addresses these focus
areas. However, for funding beginning in FY13 the program is
particularly interested in the following topics:
- The development of sea ice and ocean products derived from
remotely-sensed data;
- Assimilation of in situ and remotely-sensed physical data and
derived products into integrated predictive models of the arctic
system;
- Improving sea ice model components of integrated arctic models to
advance predictive capabilities at high resolution; and
- Observations of ocean circulation and structure in the Beaufort
and Chukchi seas as a contribution to the Arctic Observing Network
(AON).
Planning letter deadline: Friday, 13 April 2012.
For program information and guidance for planning letter preparation,
prospective investigators should go to the ONR Arctic and Global
Prediction Program Web site, at:
http://tinyurl.com/ONR-GlobalPredictionProgram.
For questions, please contact:
Martin Jeffries
Email: martin.jeffries [at] navy.mil
Phone: 703-696-7825
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