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Steroids, baseball, and climate change

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What do home runs and weather extremes have in common?

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Zooming in: wild and mild weather

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Zooming in: wild & mild weather

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Patricia Romero Lankao, NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory

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January 30, 2012
Volcanic eruptions and resulting changes to sea ice and ocean currents may be the cause
Artist's rendering: prototype Vehicle Data Translator system
November 18, 2011
Improved forecasting, driving safety are among the goals of new research.
 
Golden maple leaf casts shadow on white snow
It wasn't all that cold, but it certainly was wet.
UCAR Magazine
Bob Henson | 20 September 2011  •  It finally rained in Pecos. On 14 September, the West Texas town received a modest but welcome 0.13 inches, plus another 0.27” in the following three days (about 16 millimeters total) . Normally that...
Path of Russian river water into the Canada Basin
A hemispherewide phenomenon – and not just regional forces – has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea.
A dead ironwood tree
Trees are dying in the Sahel, a region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, and human-caused climate change is to blame.
An image of the Sun with orange flares.
February 7, 2012 | When a geomagnetic storm blasted Earth on January 24, commercial airlines redirected a handful of flights were originally routed to fly over the North Pole. This was necessary to avoid potential communications lapses and protect crews and passengers from excessive radiation at high latitudes.
February 2, 2012 | A new computer modeling study from NCAR investigates how an increase in shrubs in the Arctic may affect permafrost.
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