Investigate other science-based resources:

Research reports & news

• The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on Climate Science
  • Authored by 26 climate scientists, released in November 2009
  • Written to update the physical science basis for our understanding of climate change, in a manner accessible to policy makers:
    • "to synthesize the most policy-relevant climate science published since the close-off of material for the last IPCC report [AR4]."
    • to serve "as a handbook of science updates that supplements the IPCC AR4 in time for Copenhagen in December 2009, and any national or international climate change policy negotiations that follow."
  • Webcast of press conference with four of the authors, University of New South Wales, December 15, 2009
• UCAR Magazine
  • Ongoing coverage of climate research at NCAR and in the broader atmospheric science community

Research programs at NCAR

• Community modeling and scenario development efforts
  • Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
  • Nested Regional Climate Model (NRCM)
  • North American Regional Climate Change Program (NARCCAP)
    
• Groups focused on climate variability and change 
  • Climate & Global Dynamics Division (NESL/CGD)
  • Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (CISL/IMAGe)

Explore some additional science-based FAQs:

• Climate FAQs from scientists in NCAR's Climate and Global Dynamics Division
• Climate Change, the Physical Science Basis: Frequently Asked Questions from the 2007 IPCC report
• European Environment Agency Climate Change FAQ