UCAR/NCAR Research Data Management Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, March 19, 10:00am-noon, Foothills Laboratory, FL2 1022 Scientific progress is dependent on digital tools and digital data. Many of the most critical scientific questions in the geosciences can...
View Article2013 – 2014 AMS/UCAR Congressional Science Fellowship
Consider sharing your scientific expertise and knowledge with our government to enhance the interests of our society. Applications are now being accepted for the 2013-2014 AMS/UCAR Congressional...
View ArticleReview Featured AGU Research Papers
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View ArticleChinese vs United States Scholarly Research
From 2000 to 2010, China’s research production has increased more than 600% – now only second in producing scholarly papers behind the United States. There are varying viewpoints on the quality of the...
View ArticleConferences and Face-To-Face Interactions Still Impacts Science
In our virtual world of teleconferencing, limits on travel and sequestration/budget issues, face- to-face interactions are still vital to the process of science. AMS President, J. Marshall Shepherd...
View ArticleScience Experiments – Four hundred years and counting
What do sun spots, volcanoes and soil nutrients’ impact on crop production have in common? They are the subjects of experiments initiated decades and, in some cases even centuries, ago. Read the...
View Article62 Years of Warming Trends in 13 Seconds
NASA presents this 13 second animation that illustrates global temperatures increasing since 1950. The data come from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York (GISS), which monitors...
View ArticleGeoScience Data Journal Publishes Data Paper
GeoScience Data Journal has recently published their first open access data paper online. The article, The GBS dataset: measurements of satellite site diversity at 20.7 GHz in the UK explains the focus...
View ArticleDr. Louis Uccellini, Director of the National Weather Service Remembers...
Dr. Louis Dr. Louis Uccellini, the recently appointed Director of the National Weather Service (NWS) recalls his mentors and colleagues during his time as a student at UW-Madison’s Department of...
View ArticleCourse on Visualization of Climate Data at NCAR
Registration is open for the free IMAGe STATMOS Workshop on Visualization of Climate Data to learn approaches to explore and visualize climate data sets, using R. It will consist of a mix of...
View ArticleCurrent Views on Changing Weather in Northern Europe
Review presentation of research and various studies/models, discussing the status of the current Arctic Ice and its impact on the cold weather in Germany this past winter. Maps and simulations from...
View ArticleArt and Science Intersect
Artist Berndnaut Smilde’s recent project of installing real Nimbus clouds in empty gallery spaces in Amsterdam reflects his interest in “the ephemeral aspect of the work”. By deliberately regulating...
View ArticleSupercomputers Impact Science Discovery and Progress
Recently NSF has provided over $200 million funding for NCAR’s “Yellowstone“, NCSA’s “Blue Waters” and TACC’s “Stampede” supercomputers. Each computer adds value to the other and will provide the...
View ArticleTips and Techniques on Talking with Funders and Reporters
Looking for ways to showcase your science with potential funders as well as the media? The NCAR Early Career Scientist Assembly and NCAR & UCAR Communications are sponsoring two presentations this...
View ArticleNCAR’s Climate Data Guide
Like an insider’s guidebook to an unexplored country, the Climate Data Guide provides the key insights needed to select the data that best align with your goals, including critiques of data sets by...
View ArticleNCAR Remembers Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher’s visit to NCAR in 1990 was the first time a foreign head of government had visited NCAR and the Boulder area. It reflected the prime minister’s increasing interest in the greenhouse...
View ArticleStudy Detects Human Impact on China’s Climate
A study recently published in AGU’s Geophysical Research Letters “directly links greenhouse gas emissions with warmer temperature extremes in a single country, rather than on a global scale.” The paper...
View ArticleNominations are open for AMS Awards
The Council of the American Meteorological Society invites members and friends of the AMS to submit nominations for consideration for the Society Awards, Lecturers, Named Symposia, Fellows, Honorary...
View ArticleSupport COMET’s MetEd Online Weather Training
COMET’s MetEd free, online training courses help more than 275,000 meteorologists, pilots, firefighters, emergency managers, other professionals, and students better predict potential threats to...
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