The National Science Foundation supports various research at CIRA, including:

• Collaborative Proposal to NSF: Ensemble Data Assimilation Based On Control Theory
• Collaborative Research: Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Tranverse: climate variability and glaciology
• IPY: Collaborative Research: A prototype network for measuring arctic winter precipitation and snow cover (snow-net)
• The White Arctic: A Snow-Impacts Synthesis for the Terrestrial Arctic
• Using a regional-scale model to analyze the scale dependence of convection, cloud microphysics, and fractional cloudiness
• Winter Precipitation, Sublimation, and Snow-Depth in the Pan-Arctic: Critical Processes and a Half Century of Change