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This Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Gulf Coast opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 10HQPA0029) is a U.S. Geological Survey cooperative agreement focused on producing high resolution regional climate information for Florida and the adjacent southeastern United States. The core purpose is to generate and analyze regional climate predictions for two separate 30 year windows: a recent historical period (1971 to 2000) and a mid to late century future period (2041 to 2070). The 1971 to 2000 window is intended to function as a control period, taking advantage of extensive observational records (such as rainfall and evapotranspiration) to evaluate model performance and establish a consistent baseline for comparing future changes. The 2041 to 2070 window is selected to align with the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP), which emphasizes that the climate change signal is expected to be more stable and detectable by that timeframe and, importantly, that it is still close enough to matter for real world planning by resource management agencies.

The technical work centers on dynamical downscaling, meaning the project is expected to run regional climate models at finer spatial detail than many continental scale projections. NARCCAP produces projections over North America at roughly 50 km horizontal resolution using an ensemble approach that combines six regional climate models with four IPCC AR4 atmosphere ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs). In this grant, USGS is seeking additional downscaling to approximately 10 km resolution for peninsular Florida and nearby parts of the Southeast, drawing from three of the four AOGCMs used within NARCCAP. This finer resolution is meant to better capture local and regional features that strongly influence Florida climate, such as coastlines, land surface characteristics, and mesoscale circulation patterns, and to deliver outputs that are more usable for applied decision making.

A major added emphasis is examining how land use and land cover (LULC) change interacts with greenhouse gas driven forcing. Rather than treating future climate change as only a function of atmospheric composition, the project explicitly considers that shifts in urbanization, agriculture, vegetation cover, and other land surface changes can alter evapotranspiration, surface energy balance, and regional circulation, thereby modifying temperature and precipitation patterns. A key deliverable is therefore not just future climate projections, but an assessment of how much projected change and uncertainty may be attributable to greenhouse gas concentration changes versus LULC changes, and how these drivers may combine.

The expected outputs are framed as assessments of multiple climate and impact relevant metrics for Florida and the adjacent Southeast. These include changes in precipitation and temperature patterns, changes in the seasonal cycle and its timing (phenology of climate seasons), and changes in the frequency of derived indices such as freeze or chill days, extreme heat days, frost days, and wildfire threat indicators. The work also calls for evaluating changes in broader regional behavior such as mean circulation, average precipitation, evapotranspiration, and surface temperature. Alongside these results, the project is expected to quantify and discuss uncertainties across these categories, especially uncertainties tied to greenhouse gas pathways and land cover assumptions, and to support USGS scientists in interpreting model outputs so they can be used appropriately in downstream science and management contexts.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement mechanism, meaning substantial involvement or collaboration with the federal agency is typically anticipated. The activity category is Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and the CFDA number listed is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). The opportunity anticipated a single award with an estimated total funding amount of $258,137, with no stated cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is restricted to organizations that are already participating partners in the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program, reflecting the CESU model as a partnership framework for research, technical assistance, and education. The posting date was January 20, 2010, with an original and current closing date of January 29, 2010, and an archive date of February 28, 2010. The listed point of contact is Faith Graves, Contract Specialist, at 703-648-7356.

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