Targeting severe storm prediction
To help better predict where spring thunderstorms will rip across Colorado’s Front Range and the adjacent Great Plains, researchers have launched a major field project with the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V aircraft and fine-grained computer simulations. The month-long Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) includes participants from NCAR, NOAA, and several universities. more>

Five things to know about carbon dioxide
CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have crossed a major threshold: 400 parts per million. Here are five key points on how carbon dioxide is affecting Earth’s atmosphere and the role we're playing in it. more>

Workplace Harassment Awareness Seminar
June 4, 2013
10:00 am – 12:00 pm; FL2-1001
Facilitator: Chuck Passaglia
Overview of the rights of employees to be free from all forms of unlawful harassment in the workplace. Particular emphasis on legal implications and UCAR policies in the areas of sexual harassment, intimidation, bullying, workplace respect, conduct in the workplace, preventing and reporting any form of workplace harassment.

Web Development Using Cascading Style Sheets CS5
June 5, 2013
8:30 am – 4:30 pm; CG2-CTTC
Facilitator:  New Horizon Trainer
Learn to use CSS to design and develop effective websites. Topics: CONTROLLING COLOR & TYPOGRAPHY: Create Embedded Style Sheets, Apply Color, CSS Comments, Modify Text & Font Styles, Create Linked Style Sheets; DESIGNING: Create Class/Contextual/ID Styles, Target Styles to Elements with Specific Attributes, Create Style Sheets that Cascade, Import Style Sheets, Create Inline Styles; DESIGNING CONTENT SECTIONS: Control Margins and Padding, Create Borders & Floating Elements, Control Content Overflow; CONTROLLINGLAYOUT WITH POSITIONING: Create Fixed Multi-Column Layouts, Create Fluid Multi-Column Layouts, Control Layout with Relative Positioning Topics, Control Display of Layered Elements, Apply Fixed Positioning; ENHANCING EXISTING DESIGNS: Customize Cursors/Link Styles/Forms/Lists, Background Images, Create Generated Content; CREATING ALTERNATE STYLE SHEETS: Create Accessible Style Sheets, Apply User-Defined System Fonts & Colors, Create Print Style Sheets.

Hot Operations
June 11, 2013
11:30 am – 12:30 RAF/Jeffco Conference Room
Facilitator: Milenda Powers
Learn to keep from burning down the shop and avoid having "arsonist" on your permanent record. Hot operations refer to work that involves open flames, torches and welding. The Safety policy and permit requirements for this work will be reviewed during this brief class.

Hazard Communication
June 11, 2013
9:00 am – 10:30 am; RAF/Jeffco Conference Room
Facilitator: Milenda Powers
Employees have the right to know about hazardous materials and how to protect themselves. Learn about the hazards of chemicals and how to use labels and Material Safety Data Sheets to protect against those hazards. Attending this class fulfills training requirements specified by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA).

Lockout/Tagout
June 11, 2013
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm; RAF/Jeffco Conference Room
Facilitator:  Milenda Powers
Avoid electrocution of yourself and others by learning how to deactivate energy systems. Recognize dangers and hazards of stored energies. Control hazards by disconnecting and blocking the energy path and perform a lock out/ tag out operation. An audit of lock-out/tag-out skills is conducted yearly.

Confined Space
June 11, 2013
10:30 am – 11:30 am ; RAF/Jeffco Conference Room
Facilitator: Milenda Powers
The number one goal of working in a confined space is to get out safely! If you ever need to enter confined spaces, like a tank, pit or manhole, this course is for you. Discussions cover hazards that claim lives of workers around the country each year, as well as how following the UCAR confined space policy will prevent that from happening to us.

Are Your Investments On Track (L/L seminar)
June 12, 2013
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm; FL2-1001
Facilitator:
The best investing strategy is a carefully planned and prepared approach to managing and accumulating money. A well-planned strategy can help you meet your short-term, mid-term, and long-term financial goals. Investment planning requires discipline and patience. But it doesn’t have to be difficult. Topics include: Investment fundamentals, including the effects of inflation and compounding; How to identify financial goals and time horizons; How to measure your risk tolerance, and the relationship between risk and return; The difference between cash equivalents, bonds, stocks and mutual funds, and the importance of asset allocation. A drawing for a door prize provided by ECU will be held after the session, must be present to win.

Javascript: Enhancing Web Pages
June 19, 2013
8:30 am – 4:30 pm; CG2-CTTC
Facilitator: New Horizon Trainer
Learn to add various JavaScript enhancements to Web sites. Topics Include: JavaScript: The What, Where, and How, Investigating JavaScript, Effects, Entering JavaScript into a Web Page, Handling Errors. JavaScript Basics: JavaScript’s Built-in Objects, Event Handling, Functions and Variables. Object References, Control Structures, Code Formatting, and Web Page Navigation with the Select Object. Interactive Images: Swapping Images in Response to onClick Event, Image Rollovers, Automating Dynamic Image Swapping. Dynamic Styles and Positioning: Dealing with Browser Differences, Changing Styles. Dynamic Styles & Positioning: Dynamic Positioning¾Another Way. Windows and Frames: Creating Frames, Changing Contents of a Frame, Loading pages into New Windows.Form Data Verification: Processing Form Elements: An Overview Validating Data with Functions, Calculating Numeric Values, Scripting onSubmit and onReset Events.

The Advanced Study Program 2013 Seminar Series continues with a seminar presented by Ryan Torn of SUNY-Albany

When: 11:00 a.m. Thursday, May 23rd.
Where: FL2 - 1022 (Large Auditorium)
refreshments will be provided prior to the seminar.

Abstract:
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters on Earth.  It is important to provide accurate predictions of these systems because missing a system can lead to loss of life and property, while over-warning can lead to significant economic disruption and apathy toward future warnings. Numerical model forecasts, which are extensively used in the prediction of TC track and intensity, are characterized by errors resulting from both initial conditions and model formulation, thus it is important to understand where these errors are coming from and how they evolve with time.  This talk will discuss how one can use multiple realizations of the same forecast, or an ensemble of forecasts, to diagnose the source and growth of errors in TCs.  The first half of the seminar will focus on the factors that lead to the high variability in Hurricane Sandy's track forecast 5 days prior to landfall, while the second half will look at the growth of intensity errors related to uncertainty in the atmosphere and ocean.

The Information Technology Council (ITC) is hosting two town hall meetings to discuss Google Apps feedback and next steps. Please join us.

May 28, 10:00 am CG1 Auditorium

May 30, 9:30 am ML Main Seminar Room

A town hall will be recorded for later viewing for those unable to attend.

Visit UCAR Google to learn more about the project or to submit questions you would like addressed at the town hall.

A number of questions have been received since the announcement of the plan for UCAR to adopt Google Apps for Government.  We will regularly be answering questions on the FAQ tab of the implementation web site, https://www2.fin.ucar.edu/google.  The first set of questions and answers has already been added, and more will be added as appropriate on a weekly basis.  We welcome your feedback!

These new acquisitions will be displayed at each NCAR Library location for one week, first at FL Library and then at ML Library. If you have questions regarding the new books or want to suggest additions to the library collection, please contact the NCAR Library at ncarref@ucar.edu or ext. 8505.

Essentials of Intellectual Property: Law, Economics, and Strategy, 2nd Edition
Alexander I. Poltorak, Paul J. Lerner
Wiley
KF2980 .P65 2011
FL Library

Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists
Howard B. Rockman
Wiley
KF2980 .R63 2004
FL Library

Fluid Dynamics and Dynamos in Astrophysics and Geophysics: Reviews Emerging From the Durham Symposium on Astrophysical Fluid Mechanics, July 29 to August 8, 2002
A. M. Soward
CRC Press
QB466.F58 F58 2005
ML Library

Preliminary Report of the Hakuho Maru Cruise KH-11-8 12 August - 4 October 2011, Tokyo - San Francisco - Tokyo : Cruise for Overturning Circulation, Turbulence, and Subduction in the Northeastern North Pacific
University of Tokyo. Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute
ML Reports
102085

Lessons in Clear and Effective Writing

1) Mastering Compounds, Hyphens, and Dashes

2) Creating Coherent and Powerful Paragraphs

Alice Levine
Alice Levine Editorial Services
www.alicelevine-editorial.com

9:00 am-12:00 noon
Monday, 20 May 2013
FL2, Room 1003

Is it bandwidth or band width? Should we hyphenate beamwidth and low frequency? Our first goal in this session will be to identify closed, open, and hyphenated compounds and learn how to handle compound nouns, compound adjectives, compound adverbs, prefixes, and suffixes. We’ll explore the use of hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes to clarify meaning.

 Our second goal is to examine how we construct paragraphs. Many of us begin a new paragraph simply by pressing the indent key, but that the approach is unlikely to result in an effective and coherent unit of thought. Paragraphs are like paper chains; each link holds one idea to the next one. Without a sturdy chain, a paragraph falls apart. We will analyze weak paragraphs and learn how to transform them into successful transmitters of our message.

 If you would like to submit questions and text samples on these two topics, please send them to Alice Levine (alevineed@aol.com) by May 14, so she can address them in the session.

 To be sure that there are enough handouts for all participants, please email Jielun Sun (jsun@ucar.edu) if you plan to participate in this workshop.

In January 2012, NCAR became a member of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), joining other UCP ESIP members including Unidata, GLOBE, and DLESE. ESIP is an open networked community of over 120 organizations that bring together science, data and information technology researchers and practitioners. ESIP provides an open opportunity for any interested UCAR/NCAR individuals to get involved with working groups and clusters on a variety of data and information topics such as data formats and standards, data discovery, curation and preservation, geospatial data and information, visualization and developing the science data information profession.

ESIP holds two annual meetings that bring together individuals from member organizations to present new work, discuss current collaborations, and start new projects. Many of NSF's larger data initiatives such as EarthCube, have received extensive attention at these meetings. NCAR staff have participated in previous ESIP meetings in Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin, and we are encouraging interested individuals to participate at the next ESIP meeting, July 9-12, 2013 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Early registration takes place through May 31st and the site for the summer meeting can be found at http://esipfed.org/meetings?utm_source=ESIP+Update&utm_campaign=369ffd908f-ESIP_Update1_21_2013&utm_medium=email

For more information about ESIP, see http://www.esipfed.org/ for a general overview or http://commons.esipfed.org/ to access the ESIP Commons.

The WRF Users' Workshop will take place at NCAR on June 24–28.  Papers focusing on development and testing in all areas of model applications are especially encouraged. Authors may request either a poster or oral presentation, although posters are encouraged due to time constraints for oral sessions. The workshop will open on June 24 with a half-day session on atmospheric radiation and effects of clouds, ozone and aerosols and will close on June 28 with six tutorials:

---WRF-Hydro
---NCAR Command Language (NCL)
---Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR)
---SKEBS
---Topics in Advanced Verification Methods
---Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)


---Early registration deadline for workshop: June 10
---Deadline for submitting short abstracts: May 3
---Deadline for submitting extended abstracts: June 17

The WRF Users' Workshop will take place at NCAR on June 24–28.  Papers focusing on development and testing in all areas of model applications are especially encouraged. Authors may request either a poster or oral presentation, although posters are encouraged due to time constraints for oral sessions. The workshop will open on June 24 with a half-day session on atmospheric radiation and effects of clouds, ozone and aerosols and will close on June 28 with six tutorials:

---WRF-Hydro
---NCAR Command Language (NCL)
---Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers (VAPOR)
---SKEBS
---Topics in Advanced Verification Methods
---Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)

Contact: Kris Marwitz, NCAR/NESL/MMM
303-497-8198, workshop@ucar.edu

WRF Users’ Workshop:
http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/2013_wrfusers/index.php
---Early registration deadline for workshop: June 10
---Deadline for submitting short abstracts: May 3
---Deadline for submitting extended abstracts: June 17

NCAR Community Art Program is presenting two artists.

Photographer Heidi Wagner intentionally leaves room within her photographs to encourage the viewer to discover their own meaning. Wagner’s artwork will be on exhibit in gallery l.

Painter Margaret Donharl paints on reclaimed materials—infusing her work with multiple layers of imagery. Donharl’s artwork will be on exhibit in gallery ll.