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In this Phase I effort, CFD Research proposes the creation of a lightning services API using data from the GOES-16/17 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) and the development of valued-added lightning initiation and cessation products. Leveraging CFD Research’s experience in software and API development and atmospheric sciences for lightning research applications, this API will provide a simplif ...

As aquaculture increases productivity to meet worldwide demand, it faces an increasing threat from the spread of disease, aquatic organisms, and pathogens. However, biosensor technologies have not kept pace with the need to monitor these ever-increasing threats. In particular, biomonitoring has been limited by the need for continuous human presence, whether at the point of collection or in the lab ...

The vision of Weather Ready Nation is achieved through the synthesis of the large number of NOAA products and services into meaningful and actionable information for community stakeholders and individual populations. The challenge is an increasing desire from these stakeholders and populations for forecast confidence and quantification of uncertainty in weather forecast products. Many community st ...

"We will demonstrate the feasibility of a novel cloud type identification system that uses a voice application to collect surface observations. This capability meets NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts and to share that knowledge and information with others . Many weather observing stations have replaced human observations with weather satelli ...

Minimizes integration, testing and training; saves time and money; high speed identification of runs; automated classification of nominal and off nominal behavior; high quality visualization to help with analysis; quick display of estimated and predicted metrics; rapid prediction of performance; enables reuse of components with no software changes; low size weight and power compute nodes. Approved ...

CFD Research will develop and demonstrate a plant-derived porous carbon material with equivalent or better specific capacity to current, commercial supercapacitor materials. The porous carbon will be incorporated into supercapacitor coin cells for cycling stability and rate performance evaluation. The supercapacitors will use a non-toxic electrolyte based on lithium ion battery electrolyte solvent ...

This proposal seeks to provide the onboard Data Acquisition and Control System with critical data regarding the real-time effects of window heat loading so that coolant flow and boresight error (BSE) can be optimized and corrected in real time. Approved for Public Release | 19-MDA-10270 (18 Nov 19)

IERUS proposes to develop a novel plasma microparticle injection method to reduce the cut-off frequency by modifying the plasma dielectric structure via a reduction in the plasma electron density. In the hypersonic environment, the electron thermal speed is larger than the ion thermal speed by several orders of magnitude and thus the flux of electrons to the microparticle surfaces far exceeds that ...

CFD Research team proposes to develop and demonstrate a rapid integrated software and hardware design loop which will define a control actuation system and high-temperature tolerant, deployable control surfaces through multidisciplinary design optimization. The hypersonic environment analysis tool (HEAT) will be used for aerothermal analysis and due to its fast execution times, will enable effecti ...

Updated X-band antenna designs will support proposed modifications to the current missile defense interceptor architectures. Approved for Public Release | 19-MDA-10270 (18 Nov 19)