2513009
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Collaborative research: Frameworks: Turbo: Towards ultra-high resolution Community Earth System Model (CESM) with MOM6 and ocean biogeochemistry.
Weather events, such as heat waves, winter storms, droughts, floods, and hurricanes, severely impact human well-being.
Such events also cause severe disruptions to agriculture, infrastructure, energy delivery and use, industrial activity, and fisheries.
To better protect life, property, and food sources, it is in the national interest to provide policymakers and local and regional stakeholders with the reliable information they need to make informed decisions.
The provision of such information requires Earth System Model simulations that can run fast at increasingly finer scales on emerging computational platforms.
In addition, advancing the scientific understanding of the processes occurring at these scales and how they feed back to the larger scales is needed.
The project aims to address this Earth System modeling challenge by advancing the capabilities of one of the most widely used Earth System Models through the creation of optimized configurations of its ocean component that can run efficiently on advanced supercomputers.
The project will make a crucial contribution to the Earth System Model, providing critical information at local and regional scales and enhancing the planet's resilience to natural hazards.
The project will support the training and education of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the broader research, policymaking, and stakeholder communities, through specific classes, tutorials, and workshops.
The project creates an innovative cyberinfrastructure for the latest version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM3), particularly for its ocean component, Modular Ocean Model Version 6 (MOM6).
It enables new high-resolution (HR; ~10-25 km) and ultra-HR (~3-5 km) frontier applications and science, thus broadening CESM3's use cases down to the kilometer scale.
Specifically, the project aims to create graphics processor unit (GPU)-enabled and optimized configurations of MOM6, anticipating the availability of more GPU-based systems in the future.
One of the cyberinfrastructure innovations is the introduction of the AMREX software framework within MOM6.
The project has the potential to transform the scientific understanding of physical processes, including upper-ocean and air-sea interactions, teleconnection patterns, and their interplay with ocean biogeochemistry at unprecedentedly small spatial scales.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Subawards are not planned for this award.
Weather events, such as heat waves, winter storms, droughts, floods, and hurricanes, severely impact human well-being.
Such events also cause severe disruptions to agriculture, infrastructure, energy delivery and use, industrial activity, and fisheries.
To better protect life, property, and food sources, it is in the national interest to provide policymakers and local and regional stakeholders with the reliable information they need to make informed decisions.
The provision of such information requires Earth System Model simulations that can run fast at increasingly finer scales on emerging computational platforms.
In addition, advancing the scientific understanding of the processes occurring at these scales and how they feed back to the larger scales is needed.
The project aims to address this Earth System modeling challenge by advancing the capabilities of one of the most widely used Earth System Models through the creation of optimized configurations of its ocean component that can run efficiently on advanced supercomputers.
The project will make a crucial contribution to the Earth System Model, providing critical information at local and regional scales and enhancing the planet's resilience to natural hazards.
The project will support the training and education of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the broader research, policymaking, and stakeholder communities, through specific classes, tutorials, and workshops.
The project creates an innovative cyberinfrastructure for the latest version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM3), particularly for its ocean component, Modular Ocean Model Version 6 (MOM6).
It enables new high-resolution (HR; ~10-25 km) and ultra-HR (~3-5 km) frontier applications and science, thus broadening CESM3's use cases down to the kilometer scale.
Specifically, the project aims to create graphics processor unit (GPU)-enabled and optimized configurations of MOM6, anticipating the availability of more GPU-based systems in the future.
One of the cyberinfrastructure innovations is the introduction of the AMREX software framework within MOM6.
The project has the potential to transform the scientific understanding of physical processes, including upper-ocean and air-sea interactions, teleconnection patterns, and their interplay with ocean biogeochemistry at unprecedentedly small spatial scales.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Subawards are not planned for this award.
Funding Goals
THE GOAL OF THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY, "CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUSTAINED SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION", IS IDENTIFIED IN THE LINK: HTTPS://WWW.NSF.GOV/PUBLICATIONS/PUB_SUMM.JSP?ODS_KEY=NSF22632
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Boulder,
Colorado
80301-2252
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Related Opportunity
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 100% from $2,249,516 to $4,499,035.
University Corporation For Atmospheric Research was awarded
Ultra-High Resolution Earth System Model for Enhanced Resilience
Project Grant 2513009
worth $4,499,035
from the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in July 2025 with work to be completed primarily in Boulder Colorado United States.
The grant
has a duration of 5 years and
was awarded through assistance program 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 7/10/25
Period of Performance
7/1/25
Start Date
6/30/30
End Date
Funding Split
$4.5M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$4.5M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to 2513009
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
2513009
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Other
Awarding Office
490509 OFC OF ADV CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Funding Office
490509 OFC OF ADV CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Awardee UEI
YEZEE8W5JKA3
Awardee CAGE
0SEF6
Performance District
CO-02
Senators
Michael Bennet
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
Modified: 7/10/25