Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
902 Texas Tech University (142790)
Principal Investigator: Hequet, Eric F.
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 300,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 9/1/22 - 8/31/25
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Fiber and Biopolymer Research Inst
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Fiber and Biopolymer Research Inst
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Development of novel fiber quality characterization methods
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
USDA Agricultural Research Service
CFDA Link: USDA
10.001
Program Title:
n/a
CFDA Linked: Agricultural Research_Basic and Applied Research
Note:
1.1.1: The objectives of this research project are to describe and understand: 1) the charge structure and lightning initiation as lake-effect moist convection over the lake transitions to stratiform precipitation processes farther inland; 2) how charge regions and lightning are affected by the Maple Ridge Wind Farm 50 km east of Lake Ontario, a farm of almost 200 turbines that are over 100 m tall; 3) lightning flash sizes and energies associated with lake-effect storms; and 4) how electrical observations compare to microphysical observations (in-situ and remote). Project LEE findings will also be compared with similar observations in warm and other cool season thunderstorms such as during extra-tropical cyclones and electrical numerical model simulations to improve upon charging and lightning initiation hypotheses.
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