If this was directed to me as OP: I assume that either the FAA or NASA would grant funding to a university with the right atmospheric weather skills (perhaps involving NOAA?).
Both NASA and NOAA fund research into aviation weather. I presume that the FAA does too but I've never seen any of their staff, or anyone funded by them, at conferences or in research papers (not that I've been paying particular attention to looking for them, mind you).