We Fund Research to Improve Your Weather Forecast

The NOAA Weather Program Office funds research to improve weather forecasts, save lives, and reduce property damage. We work throughout the Weather Enterprise to foster research that can be transitioned into operational weather forecasts so the public can be better prepared for weather phenomena.

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Reviewing Proposals for the FY25 NOFOs

We fund research to advance weather forecasting

The NOAA Weather Program Office is currently reviewing proposals for FY25 Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFO). These NOFOs will fund six competitions, totaling up to $12.8 million per year:

  • Observations
  • Air Quality Research and Forecasting (AQRF)
  • Testbeds
  • VORTEX USA
  • Subseasonal to Seasonal
  • Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBES)

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Registration opens for 2025 S2S Predictability workshop

Registration for the Advancing Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Processes on S2S Predictability workshop is open through 5 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. The hybrid workshop will be held at NSF NCAR in Boulder, Colorado and remotely from June 16–18, 2025, and is cohosted with WPO’s Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Program.…

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Funded Projects

New WPO Research funded in Fiscal Year 2024