Meteotsunami Warning Project

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	Federal Grant Title:	Meteotsunami Warning Project
	CFDA Number:	11.467
	CFDA Description:	Meteorologic and Hydrologic Modernization Development
	Federal Agency Name:	Department of Commerce
	Category of Funding Activity:	Disaster Prevention and Relief Environment Natural Resources Science and Technology
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	NOAA-NWS-NWSPO-2011-2002833
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Jan 06, 2011
	Creation Date:	Jan 06, 2011
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Feb 07, 2011
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Feb 07, 2011
	Archive Date:	Mar 09, 2011
	Expected Number of Awards:	1
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$350,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$350,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education, other nonprofits, commercial organizations, and international organizations, state, local and Indian tribal governments.
Grant Description: NOAA's Tsunami Program's mission is to provide reliable tsunami forecasts and warnings and to promote community resilience. The Tsunami Warning System is designed to warn coastal residents of tsunamis generated by impulsive displacement of the sea floor through earthquakes and/or sub-sea landslides triggered by earthquakes. Approximately 85% of tsunamis are triggered by earthquakes. However, in some locations of the country meteorologically-generated waves with the same characteristics as tsunamis (or, "meteotsunamis") have historically posed a greater threat than the well-known earthquake-generated tsunami. Presently, no system is in place in the U.S. which monitors for the phenomena and alerts coastal residents to the threat. The NOAA Tsunami Program recognizes the need to research the possibility of developing a meteotsunami warning capability. This RFA requests research to address four primary objectives: 1) Identify the causative forces and pre-cursor environmental conditions which have generated meteotsunamis historically; 2) Define the observational systems, communications, and processing systems necessary to evaluate meteotsunami formation prior to impact along a coast; and 3) Develop a protocol for issuing meteotsunami warnings along the U.S. coas
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Similar Government Grants: • A Cooperative Agreement for Education and Training for Climate, Water, and Weather (ET-CWW); • Tsunami Social Science Program; • NWS Severe Weather Program