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When engine meets ice

Feature Story

Tackling a mysterious form of in-flight icing

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Sunset over Colorado wheat field

UCAR Digital Image Library

A collection of sunrise and sunset photos

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Solving geoscience problems with math

Profiles in Science

Doug Nychka, NCAR's Institute for Mathematics Applied to the Geosciences (IMAGe)

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Targeting thunderstorms

Site Spotlight

Scientists launch DC3 experiment

April 30, 2012
Scientists are targeting thunderstorms across the U.S. to discover what happens when clouds suck up air from Earth’s surface many miles into the atmosphere.
Scientist examines laser instrument for measuring snow
February 13, 2012
Scientists are working to solve a critical wintertime weather mystery: how to accurately measure the amount of snow on the ground.
 
Downtown Houston skyline at night
May 14, 2012 • The atmosphere has dealt Houston more than a few wild cards over the last few years. The twin strikes of Tropical Storm Allison (2001) and Hurricane Ike (2008) caused billions in damage and took dozens of lives in the greater Houston...
Tallgrass struggles against drought in this file photo from eastern Colorado.
Bob Henson | April 3, 2012  •  If snow is the lifeblood of Colorado’s economy and ecology, then my home state is ready for a transfusion. March is normally the snowiest month of the year for much of the state, but March 2012 will go down...
Iowa State University's Tornado/Microburst Simulator
Tornado/Microburst Simulator runs over a 3-D model of a two-mile by three-mile section of rough Alabama countryside.
The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station in Tasmania
Chemists have found a smoking gun proving that increased fertilizer use over the past 50 years is responsible for a dramatic rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide.
A map showing the coast of Japan.
April 16, 2012 | After an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, on March 11, 2011, an unknown quantity of radioactive material was released into the surrounding air and sea. NCAR scientists and their Japanese colleagues are working to get a better picture of radioactive fallout from the event.
A man with an umbrella walks through floodwaters in Ambala, India, July 2010
March 28, 2012 | Burning fossil fuels has led to a warmer, moister atmosphere and a shifting background for extreme weather and climate events, according to a new study by NCAR scientist Kevin Trenberth. Published in the journal Climatic Change, the analysis puts a wide range of noteworthy weather events from the last two years in the context of a warming and moistening global climate.

Seminars + Meetings

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 3:30pm
Aixue Hu, NCAR, CGD
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 1:30pm
Enrico Landi, University of Michigan
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 10:00am
David K. Adams,
Programa do Clima e Ambiente Universidade do Estado do Amazonas and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa da Amazônia
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 3:10pm
Sean Reifschneider, Other
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