The U.S. National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories. NSF was established in 1950 by Congress to promote the progress of science, advance the national health, prosperity and welfare, and secure the national defense.
The broad goals of the Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics (CLD) Program are to: advance knowledge about the processes that force and regulate the atmosphere's synoptic and planetary circulation, weather, and climate; and sustain the human resource pool required for excellence in synoptic and global atmospheric dynamics and climate research. It supports theoretical, observational, and modeling studies covering a wide range of topics such as the general circulation of the stratosphere and troposphere, synoptic scale weather phenomena, climate processes, climate variability and change, climate prediction methods, development and testing of physical process parameterizations, numerical methods for weather and climate models, and the analysis of weather and climate data. The CLD Program also encourages multidisciplinary research and collaboration with other NSF programs and divisions, adhering to their respective submission deadlines and target dates when applicable.