Project Database
| Topic Area | Location | Description | Relevant Tools | Project Status | Point of Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Forecasting | Western US | Advancing UFS forecast model improvement for S2S hydrometeorological prediction in the western states through model hierarchies Sponsor: NOAA | Advancing UFS forecast model skill for subseasonal hydrometeorol | current | Andrew Newman |
| Agriculture and Food | US Corn Belt States | Use high-res satellite data to improve input agriculture and irrigation maps to enhance weather prediction over croplands and agriculture water resource Sponsor: NASA | Noah-MP update, WRF update | current | Cenlin He |
| Water Resources | Texas | Propose an AI-enabled, end-to-end water resilience framework that captures and repurposes excess floodwaters to buffer against drought. Sponsor: University of Texas Austin, NASA | new platform/dashboard | current | Cenlin He |
| Weather and Climate | global | Understanding Processes Controlling the Temporal and Spatial Variations of PBL Structures Over the ARM SGP site Sponsor: University of Colorado, Dept of Energy | CCPP-SCM | completed 2023 | Lulin Xue |
| Flood and Hazard Modeling | NC, TN, and TX | Build a decision support system (DSS) that enables a shift from reactive to proactive post-hurricane well safety strategies Sponsor: George Washington University, NASA | new prediction tool, platform/dashboard | proposal pending | Cenlin He |
| Weather and Climate | global | Bridging the weather to climate continuum for climate resilience by characterizing climate and weather information for energy system decision-making through the Climate REsilience and ADaptation initiative (READi), Sponsor: Electric Power Research Inst., DoD | current | Andrew Newman | |
| Weather and Climate | Alaska | The climate impacts on Alaskan and Yukon rivers, fish and communities as told through co-produced scenarios. Sponsor: NSF | completed 2025 | Andrew Newman | |
| Weather and Climate | CONUS | Future Climate Simulation Technical Support and Scientific Collaboration - building on the CONUS404 Sponsor: National Weather Service | CONUS404 | current | Lulin Xue |
| Weather and Climate | China | Training course on cloud seeding flight campaign Sponsor: Advanced Radar Company | completed 2018 | Lulin Xue | |
| Weather and Climate | US | Surface, Aerosol, and Meteorological Controls on Subtropical Coastal Metropolitan Convective Clouds: Observations and Simulations from TRACER Sponsor: University of OK, Dept of Energy | WRF piggybacking framework | current | Lulin Xue |
| Land Atmosphere Interactions | global | Build a prototype, network and model agnostic framework for evaluating UFS land surface models (LSMs), land-atmosphere coupling, and planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes. Sponsor: NOAA | Advanced Coupling Evaluation Metrics in METplus for UFS Land Surface Models | current | Andrew Newman |
| Agriculture and Food | US Corn Belt States | Using physics model, statellite, and AI/ML to create digital twin system to improve agricluture water use Sponsor: George Washington University, NSF | high-res irrgation data, Noah-MP update, | current | Cenlin He |
| Weather and Climate, Hydrological Modeling | Columbia River Basin | Development of Meteorological and Hydrological Ensemble-based Datasets for Regional System Vulnerability Assessments, with an emphasis on extreme precipitation and flooding Sponsor: USACE | Meteorology and hydrology datasets over the Columbia River basin | Completed 2025 | Ethan Gutmann |
| Water Resources | Southern Plains | Enhance decision-making for groundwater-extraction management and irrigation-water allocation by delivering spatially explicit, observation-driven information on groundwater-storage change, irrigation water use monitoring, and groundwater extraction at ~1 km² resolution and monthly timescale. Sponsor: Oklahoma State University, NASA | new groundwater and irrigation water data | proposal pending | Cenlin He |
| Weather and Climate | global CONUS focus | Development of Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research (ICAR) Model version 2 Sponsor: USACE |
ICAR v2 | completed 2020 | Ethan Gutmann |
| Water Resources, Weather and Climate | Colorado River Basin | Understand the relative effects of different downscaling methods on potential Colorado River Basin water supply outcomes for both climate and hydrology. Through this understanding, provide an assessment of the climate impacts on the CRB for both climate and hydrology. Sponsor: Southern Nevada Water Authority, Bureau of Reclamation | Updated assessment of the climate impacts on the Colorado River Basin | completed 2024 | Ethan Gutmann |
| Weather and Climate | CONUS | Using a fully holistic view of downscaling methods for temperature and precipitation to provide the basis for the development of a demonstration decision support tool that the DoD can use for future infrastructure design planning. Sponsor: DoD | Development of downscaling methods for precipitation and temperture to inform infrastructure planning | current | Andrew Newman |
| Wildfire | Colorado | Establish proactive wildfire-resilient communities through multi-objective, inclusive, and equitable policies. Development of a robust transdisciplinary framework by integrating wildfire models at multiple scales (global, regional, local, and community) including coupling the spatiotemporal variations in vegetation dynamics, hydroclimate conditions, and community characteristics. Sponsor: Vanderbilt University | methodological framework and corresponding code to integrate models across scales | current | Cenlin He, Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig |
| Water Resources | Pacific Northwest, US | Develop metrics and tests that will directly evaluate performance and assign likelihoods to earth system models change signals for a selection of the key processes for water resource planning and operations Sponsor: DoD | current | Andrew Newman | |
| Flood and Hazard Modeling | Arizona, Gila River Basin | Improving moisture maximization methods for probable maximum precipitation estimation including physical rigor, ensemble methods, and non-stationary changes to the environment using a co-production framework with USACE to help inform dam safety and other infrastructure. Sponsor: USACE | probabilistic precipitation maximization methods | current | Andrew Newman |
| Human Health | CONUS | Extreme heat events and fertility: a national study Sponsor: Emory University, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | completed 2025 | Andrew Newman | |
| Human Health | CONUS | Heat and Acute Kidney Injury: A detailed assessment using electronic medical records and high-resolution exposure modeling Sponsor: Emory University, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | current | Andrew Newman | |
| Wildfire | western US | Using SnowEx data and remote sensing to calibrate, improve, and validate fire-informed hydrologic modeling Sponsor: Portland State University, NASA | Noah-MP update, WRF update | current | Cenlin He |
| Snow Modeling | western US | Improve understanding and modeling for fire-drought-snowpack water interactions Sponsor: NOAA | Noah-MP update | completed summer of 2025 | Cenlin He |
| Flood and Hazard Modeling | Dili, Timor-Leste | This project provided compound flooding information for The U.S. Embassy campus in Dili, Timor-Leste. It included setting up a WRF-Hydro model domain over the study area, and performing retrospective model simulations. River flows were inputted in the coastal model (SCHISM) in a one-way coupling fashion. Sponsor: NOAA | WRF Hydro Model for Dili, Timor-Leste | completed 2022 | Arezoo RafieeiNasab |
| Weather and Climate | Global | Global Energy and Water Exchanges Core Project (GEWEX) International Project Office (IGPO) Sponsor: George Mason University, NASA | Created a diverse Community of Practice and a Project Science Plan | completed 2023 | Timothy Schneider |
| Snow Modeling | Norway | Investigating the future evolution of Norwegian glaciers and hydrological impacts: an integrator modeling approach (EvoGlac) Sponsor: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Research Council of Norway | completed 2019 | Trude Eidhammer | |
| Snow Modeling | Norway | The Arctic University of Norway collaboration on the nICE project Sponsor: Arctic University of Norway | current | Trude Eidhammer | |
| Snow Modeling | Alaska | Glacier status and trends in Alaska National Parks Sponsor: National Park Service | completed 2022 | Trude Eidhammer, Aubrey Dugger | |
| Flood and Hazard Modeling | Intermountain West | Characterizing historical and potential future projections of temperature and precipitation trends and variability for spring to early summer as input to hydrology models to demonstrate potential impacts of those events. Sponsor: Bureau of Reclamation | Historical and future trends of precipitation and temperature and flooding across the intermountain west | current | Andrew Newman |
| Flood and Hazard Modeling | CONUS | Including new process-level drought diagnostic metric for model assessment for drought prediction Sponsor: NOAA | MTDF package update | current | Cenlin He, Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig |
| Wildfire | western US | Improve quantification of fire impacts on terrestrial hydrology by enhancing land model processes with NASA satellite observations Sponsor: NASA | Noah-MP | current | Cenlin He |
| Flood and Hazard Modeling, Weather and Climate | Western US | Creation of high-resolution forcing data for the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM) for use in the Next-Generation Intensity Duration Frequency (NG-IDF) streamflow products This modeling system is then used to estimate long-return period flood events in current and future climate, while incorporating changes in physical processes such as rain-on-snow events. Sponsor: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, DoD | Developed high-resolution forcing data for the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model | completed 2025 | Ethan Gutmann |
| Snow Modeling | San Joaquin River basin and Western US | Improve water supply forecasting operations in the San Joaquin river basin using in situ snow observations combined with available Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) data. In addition the project will develop tools to determine optimal location for new measurement stations and automate the process of obtaining and analyzing data for improved forecasts Sponsor: Bureau of Reclamation | Improved data of snow depth and spatial patterns. Tools to determine optinal location for new measurement stations and automate the process of obtaining and analyzing data for improved forecasts | current | Ethan Gutmann |
| Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Forecasting | CONUS | Improve snowpack and plant hydraulics physics and vegetation data assimilation capabilities in UFS/NoahMP system to enhance S2S predictions of precipitation and drought Sponsor: NOAA | Noah-MP update, UFS update | current | Cenlin He |
| Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Forecasting | CONUS | Improving NOAA UFS subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction via implementing data assimilation of vegetation characteristics in JEDI and enhanced plant hydraulics physics Sponsor: NOAA | UFS updates | current | Cenlin He |
| Weather and Climate | CONUS | Deliver an operationally ready version of the Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS, next-generation version of HRRR) model that is two-way coupled to the NWM configuration of WRF-Hydro for the purposes of improving the land surface EMR flux representation and resulting warm season mesoscale precipitation and hydrologic forecasts. Sponsor: NOAA OAR WPO | Improving land-surface flux partitioning in operational short range forecasts through integration of NOAA weather and water models | completed 2024 | Ryan Cabell |
| Water Resources, Weather and Climate | CONUS | Improving the physical process representation in ICAR to support water resource planning. Sponsor: USACE | Improving physical process represention in ICAR | completed 2017 | Ethan Gutmann |
| Weather and Climate, Hydrological Modeling | Asia | Generate high resolution (10km) gridded projections of future climate and hydrology of High Mountain Asia (HMA) that are grounded in best-available historical observations and understanding of atmospheric processes to address major challenges in producing decision-relevant projections. Sponsor: John Hopkins University | Dataset of high resolution gridded future climate and hydrology over the Himalaya Hindu-kush Karakoram mountain ranges and the surrounding river basins. | completed 2024 | Ethan Gutmann |
| Land Atmosphere Interactions | global | LIS-Noah-MP coupling and integration Sponsor: NASA | LIS-Noah-MP coupling and integration | completed 2025 | Cenlin He |
| Weather and Climate | global | Critically evaluate the site specific methodological decisions, focusing on their ability to recreate historical statistics and trends. Also compare and contrast these methods to future climates produced from ESM-dowscaling modeling chains. Sponsor: DoD | current | Andrew Newman | |
| Land Surface Modeling | global | Assessing the impact of dynamic vegetation on drought forecasts. Sponsor: NOAA | Improving vegetation in Noah-MP | current | Andrew Newman |
| Weather Observations and Improvement | Global | Opportunities for space-based observations to advance priorities for water cycle science and applications in the next decade Sponsor: Aspen Global Change Institute, NASA | current | Timothy Schneider | |
| Wildfire | Colorado | Post-fire hydrology parameterization for Noah-MP has been integrated with ASO's operational water forecasting system to represent the East Troublesome fire in the mainstem Upper Colorado headwaters. This supports water management decision making through provision of survey data and model forecast results to a number of local stakeholders managing water in that area. Sponsor: Airborne Snow Observatory, Inc | Model updates, described in the publication, have been integrated with the operational WRF-Hydro modeling system employed by ASO | completed 2025 | Cenlin He, Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig |
| Hydrological Modeling | CONUS | Support for WRF-Hydro based Runoff Risk Decision Support Tools including training Sponsor: NOAA | WRF-Hydro | completed 2021 | Amir Mazrooei |
| Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Forecasting | California, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming | Improving seasonal water supply for the mountain headwater regions by enhancing the WRF-Hydro forecasting system through the use of NCAR’s proprietary web-mapping service interface ‘HydroInspector’ analysis and display tool and improving its performance and functionality on cloud computing service. Sponsor: Airborne Snow Observatory, Inc. | Current | Yongxin Zhang | |
| Snow Modeling | Alaska | Understand the spatio-temporal variability of forest - snow albedo interactions across scales in remote sensing and the consequence to snow hydrology in boreal forests. In addition, evaluate the accuracy required and associated uncertainty for snow albedo measurements relative to forest fire disturbance gradients across scales in remote sensing. Sponsor: Portland State University, NASA | improving snow radiative transfer and albedo modeling | current | Cenlin He |
| Snow Modeling | CONUS | Improving Snow and Streamflow Simulation in the National Water Model by Leveraging Advanced Mesonet Observations from the Northeastern United States Sponsor: NOAA, SUNY Albany | Improving Snow and Streamflow Simulation in the National Water Model | completed | Arezoo RafieeiNasab |
| Snow Modeling | Global | A process based examination of bin and bulk microphysics in frozen precipitation using NASA GV and satellite data. Sponsor: Colorado State University, NASA | completed 2020 | Andrew Newman | |
| Snow Modeling | Alaska | Urban Snow Modeling to Advance Resilience for Today and Tomorrow (USMARTT) Sponsor: University of Alaska, NSF | current | Andrew Newman | |
| Testing and Evaluation | global | Developing OpenEarthscape: an integrated suite of community-developed cyber resources for simulation and model-data integration, focusing on nine related high-priority science frontiers: geohazards, water, basins, geologic records, topographic change, seafloor evolution, changing Arctic environments, Earth’s Critical Zone, and coastal and estuarine ecosystems. Sponsor: NSF - CISE | developing an integrated suite of community-developed cyber resources for simulation and model-data integration | current | Ryan Cabell |
| Ecosystem Health | Intermountain West | Understanding the dynamics of integrated climate, river, trout, and tourism systems in the moutain west Sponsor: University of Wyoming, NSF | framework for understanding dymanics from climate to human interactions | current | Andrew Newman |
| Weather and Climate | CONUS and global | Improve understanding and modeling of urban extreme precipitation Sponsor: NASA | WRF-Urban update | completed summer of 2025 | Cenlin He |
| Water Resources | Idaho | Creating a cloud seeding assessment modeling service using the WRF-Hydro hydrologic model, which quantifies spatiotemporal outputs of snowpack accumulation, sublimation, evapotranspiration snowmelt, runoff, and water supply as influenced by co-designed cloud seeding scenarios for the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR). Sponsor: Idaho Department of Water Resources | Creating a cloud seeding assessment modeling service using the WRF-Hydro hydrologic model, | Current | Ryan Cabell |
| Hydrological Modeling | Wyoming | Numerical simulations of the impact of cloud seeding in the Wind River Range on precipitation, snowpack, and streamflow Sponsor: University of Wyoming, Wyoming Water Development Commission | WRF-WxMod | completed 2021 | Lulin Xue |
| Water Resources | Wyoming | Training of a graduate student from University of Wyoming on running the seeding ensemble simulations for the Wind River Range Sponsor: University of Wyoming, USGS | WRF-WxMod | completed 2018 | Lulin Xue |
| Weather and Climate | Alaska | Wind validation for Alaska regional climate simulations Sponsor: NREL, DOE | completed 2018 | Lulin Xue | |
| Weather and Climate | US | WRF LES modeling of two ASCII seeding cases Sponsor: University of Wyoming | WRF-WxMod | completed 2024 | Lulin Xue |
| Weather and Climate | Beijing | WRF LES simulations of orographic clouds and precipitation in Beijing area Sponsor: Beijing Weather Modification Office | WRF LES modeling | completed 2019 | Lulin Xue |
| Hydrological Modeling | Pakistan | Tailored WRF Regional Climate Modeling for Hydrologic Impact Applications - training Sponsor: DoD | completed 2020 | Andrew Newman | |
| Hydrological Modeling | Caribbean | Support and training for the WRF-HYDRO Modeling System Sponsor: USAID, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology | WRF Hydro training for the Caribbean | completed 2022 | Molly McAllistar, Aubrey Dugger |
| Human Health | CONUS | Improving characterization of the spatial and temporal variability of near surface meteorology by including explicit representation of urban areas in a multi-decadal, daily, high-resolution (1 km grid spacing) data product for health impact assessments and other urban studies Sponsor: Emory University, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | HUMID | completed 2025 | Andrew Newman |