Infrastructure Cluster (AGS-IC)

Infrastructure Cluster (AGS-IC) is sponsored by NSF Directorate for Geosciences (GEO). Oversees facilities enabling research in atmospheric and geospace sciences, including research aircraft, supercomputers, and community-governed models of atmospheric processes.

Infrastructure Cluster (AGS-IC) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation Infrastructure Cluster (AGS-IC) Important information for proposers and award recipients All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in the funding opportunity and in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) and its supplements .

All NSF grants and cooperative agreements are subject to the applicable set of NSF award terms and conditions . NSF has updated its research security policies for NSF funded projects. Supports state-of-the-art facilities and instrumentation to enable research by the scientific community in atmospheric and geospace sciences, including research aircraft, supercomputers and community governed models of atmospheric processes.

Supports state-of-the-art facilities and instrumentation to enable research by the scientific community in atmospheric and geospace sciences, including research aircraft, supercomputers and community governed models of atmospheric processes.

AGS Infrastructure Cluster The Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) Infrastructure Cluster (IC) is responsible for the oversight of facilities that enable research in the atmospheric and geospace sciences. The IC primarily oversee s the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) , but i t also supports community-based instrumentation and facilities , and data storage and provisioning.

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) NCAR is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center in Boulder, Colorado. The Center is a focal point for atmospheric science research and runs eight laboratories that cover a breadth of rese arch topics in E arth system science .

AGS supports NCAR to provide the university community with world-class facilities and services that a re beyond the reach of any individual university , such as sophisticated computer models, supercom puting, extensive data sets, and research aircraft . NCAR also support s and train s the next generation o f Earth system scien tists .

NCAR is managed under a cooperative agreement between NSF and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium of North American universities with programs in atmospheric sciences.

Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE) AGS facilitate s fundamental research in the atmospheric sciences by support ing state-of-the-art instruments and facilities through a collection of programs within FARE . These programs include the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities (LAOF) and the Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) .

LAOF include major facilities, instrumentation, and field support services that enable scientific fieldwork associated with investigations o n a wide range of geophysical phenomena. Current facilities are managed by NCAR and the University of Wyoming. Proposals to LAOF are accepted by invitation from the FARE Program Director only.

CIF provides the NSF-sponsored atmospheric sciences research community with access to specialized instrumentation for field and laboratory-based studies . The program requests proposals from instrument and facility providers who will make their equipment available for community use through an NSF-defined request process. CIF proposals are solicited on a rolling two to three -year proposal submission cycle.

Current lists of available facilities and instrumentation through LAOF and CIF are available here . Proposals to use the available LAOF and CIF for science and/or education and outreach should be submitted through the Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP) . GF supports several large geospace observatories anchored by incoherent scatter radar facilities as well as distributed arrays of small instruments.

The facilities promote basic research on the structure and dynamics of the Earth's geospace environment ; the research is strongly linked to science supported by the Geospace Cluster. Proposals for large geospace observatories are accepted by invitation only. The community will be notified when a new solicitation for the Distributed Array of Small Instruments (DASI) program is released .

The IC supports data infrastructure to enable open access to data products, facilitate cross-boundary studies, develop open-source software and modeling capabilities, and form community data distribution services or centers. The IC oversees the NSF Unidata Program Center, which makes near-real-time and archived geoscience data and model output available to the university community.

The IC also oversees the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer Center and other community-accessible computing and data archiving activities at NCAR . Updates and announcements A new way to submit proposals for atmosphere and geospace sciences NCAR: John Hannan (jhannan@nsf. gov) FARE: Nicholas Anderson (nanderso@nsf.

gov) Geospace Facilities: Mangala Sharma (msharma@nsf.

gov) Awards made through this program Browse projects funded by this program Map of recent awards made through this program Distributed Array of Small Instruments (DASI) Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences Community Instruments and Facilities (AGS-CIF) Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP) Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (GEO/AGS)