NCAR has successfully developed an advanced solar energy forecasting system for New York that offers the potential to help the state achieve its renewable energy goals while saving millions of dollars for ratepayers.

Jon Petch, the deputy director in the UK Met Office responsible for weather science, has been named director of the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory (CGD) at NCAR.

A new computer modeling technique developed by NCAR scientists offers the potential to generate months-ahead summertime drought forecasts across the Western United States with the capability of differentiating between dry conditions at locations just a couple of miles apart.

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientist Richard Rotunno has been named a new member of the National Academy of Sciences, a distinguished honor given to those who have achieved excellence in research.

The catastrophic Australian bushfires in 2019-2020 contributed to ocean cooling thousands of miles away, ultimately nudging the Tropical Pacific into a rare multi-year La Niña event that dissipated only recently.