Researchers in the NOAA program were furloughed because funds to pay them were not available.

A program that supports the nation’s most promising climate scientists faces delayed funding, furloughs and a canceled year of grants, according to participants in the program and emails reviewed by The Times. It’s the latest hit climate science has taken from the Trump administration, which has been limiting funds for climate research across a number of federal agencies.

Every year since 1991, the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration has offered competitive grants to a small number of scientists. The awards, under the Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, have supported more than 230 researchers, many of whom have gone on to be leaders in global climate and atmospheric research.

“It would be a real shame for this program to go,” said Lilian Dove, an oceanographer at Brown University and one of the fellowship recipients who received the