The JCSDA supports scientific development work in priority areas including:
Radiative transfer
Clouds and precipitation
Advanced instruments
Land data assimilation
Ocean data assimilation
Air Composition
This research is done with proposal-based funds (internal research) as
well as with external grants and contracts awarded via a competitive
process open to the broader scientific community (external research).
There are also core projects that are not subject to the competitive
process but are regulated by an on-going agreement between
the funding agency and the project principal investigators (directed
research).
In addition, the JCSDA partners conduct their own internal projects and
some of them are directly related to the JCSDA activities. These
projects are labeled in-kind research projects.