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W81EWF-24-SOI-0012: Development and Testing Advancements in Spectral Wave Measurements, and Nearshore Process Methods for Risk-Based Guidance

Closed Closed March 22, 2024 Opportunity W81EWF-24-SOI-0012 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: ERDC Broad Agency Announcement (W912HZ26S0001). Status: Closes January 1, 2027 (55 days left). It is in our archive of Engineer Research and Development Center notices from 2024.

• Award ceiling$6.5 million
• Total funding$40.0 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This opportunity is restricted to non-federal partners of the Californian Region Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU).

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering awards averaged $1.1 million; this notice allows up to $6.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (69% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

In the field of surface gravity wave estimation and research, there is a need for data to update and improve state-of-the-art wave modeling technologies. The collection of high-resolution directional wave measurements at strategic locations along all US coastal waters is essential to a continued collaborative development and evaluation of state-of-the-art wave modeling technologies that support public, private, and commercial users. High-resolution directional wave measurements are used to assess predictive spectral wave model performance and are paramount to understanding the mechanisms affecting the temporal and spatial variability in the wave climate. New and innovative techniques are needed to quantify model to measurement errors. Field experiments with multiple buoy systems are needed to perform necessary analysis on wave generation source terms (atmospheric input, nonlinear wave-wave interaction, dissipation, shallow water wave-bottom effects, etc.) and will lead to better wave models and more accurate long-term wave estimates. With an increased amount of long-term data records available, tracking monthly, annual, and multi-decadal changes in climate variability will be related to large-scale markers such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the El Nino Southern Oscillation (PDO, NAO, and ENSO). Long-term measurements seldom are continuous, and occasionally miss storm extremes. New and innovative techniques (RH-Tests for Homogeneity, Neural Network, temporal correlation functions, and geo-statistical interpolation) to fill those gaps are needed in the USACE’s wave climate studies. New, innovative wave measurement systems such as small drifters could be deployed in areas where moored buoys are unable to perform. Water bodies containing ice (annual development and decay), and persistent currents as in the case of the Florida and Gulf Stream, are areas where drifters could be applicable. It is equally important to ascertain the energy derived from distant storm events originating in the far northwestern Pacific Ocean where moored buoys could not be deployed, and altimeters, despite their resounding success, may not be able to measure extreme significant wave heights in the events. An array of drifters could monitor areas, transmitting real-time directional wave data until its power supply fails. Waves are the primary energy input into the coastal zone.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

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