The competitions focus on 1) Research to Improve Precipitation Analysis Datasets and 2) Research to identify and understand key land-atmosphere processes that influence coupled-model precipitation biases in the continental United States. These competitions are being managed by Earth System Science and Modeling Division programs – Climate Observations and Monitoring Program (contact Virginia.Selz@noaa.gov) and Climate Variability and Predictability program (contact Sandy.Lucas@noaa.gov). Learn more by visiting the full funding announcement.