Recent Grants
Martin A. Baxter
- Baxter, M.A.: The Relative Contributions of Intrinsic and Practical Predictability to Model Forecasts of Cyclone Development. President's Research Investment Fund, Central Michigan University. (September 1, 2007 - November 30, 2008). $14,912
- Baxter, M.A.: Enhancing the Use of IDV and GEMPAK in Undergraduate Research and Education at Central Michigan University. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research UNIDATA Program. (Awarded June 1, 2007). $6,975
- Baxter, M.A., P.N. Schumacher and J. Boustead: Variability of the Influence of Convection on Conveyor Belts: Development of Conceptual Models and Forecast Methodologies. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research COMET Program. (March 1, 2007 - February 28, 2008 - extended through August 28, 2008). $14,275 (including National Weather Service match of $4,675)
- Baxter, M.A.: A Proposal for a UCAR Visiting Scientist Position at COMET. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research COMET Program. (March 1, 2007 - September 1, 2007). $13,466
- Baxter, M.A.: A Case Example of the Role of Warm-Sector Convection on Mesoscale Banded Snowfall, Premiere Display Travel Grant for the Severe Local Storms Conference of the American Meteorological Society, November 2006. $1,000
Leigh Orf
- Orf, L. (2008). TeraGrid (supercomputing access) allocation: Three-dimensional, time-dependent simulations of mesoscale and microscale meteorological convective phenomena. 150,000 TeraGrid service units awarded
- Lin, En-Bing, W. Briggs and L. Orf (2007). The Sensitivity of Parameterizations in Supercell Thunderstorm Models. Faculty Insight Team grant. Funded by CMU for $4,500
- Orf, L.G., M. Gilmore, J. Straka, G. Bryan and B. Wilhelmson (2007). Improving Efficiency and Wallclock of Increasingly Sophisticated Cloud Models: NCSA SAP. Accepted into NCSA SAP program
- Horoi, M., M. Fornari, A. Jackson, L. Orf and S. Hirschi (2006). Acquisition of a Cluster of Advanced Symmetric Multiprocessing Computers for High Performance Scientific Calculations. Funded by the National Science Foundation for $78,000
- Orf, L.G. (2006). FRCE: Travel expenses for presentation at the 23rd Conference on Severe Local Storms. Funded by CMU for $1,000
- Orf, L.G. (2004). Simulation and Visualization of Tornadogenesis within a Supercell Thunderstorm. CMU PRIF grant. Funded by CMU for $15,000
- Albee, P., P. Kinnicutt, L. Orf and T. Pletcher (2005). Supercomputing at Central Michigan University. Faculty Insight Team grant. Funded by CMU for $5,000
- Orf, L.G. (2004). A Proposal to Upgrade the Hardware of the Central Michigan University Unidata Server. Submitted to UNIDATA-NSF. Accepted, $12,687
- Francek, Mark, Orf, L.G., et. al. (2003). Weather Trackers for Inquiry-Based Learning. Submitted to NSF. Accepted, $28,363
