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A prolonged solar minimum gives researchers plenty to mull

If the last few years have seen a so-called quiet Sun, its silence has spoken…

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Air pollution over Mexico City

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Matthew Woitaszek

Profiles in Science

Expanding computer science to serve Earth and space research

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Visiting Scientist Programs

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VSP develops and manages postdoctoral fellowships, visiting scientist programs, and educational workshops that foster collaboration…

painting roofs white
Computer model demonstrates that white roofs may successfully cool cities
January 28, 2010
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming.
Innovative technique can spot errors in key technological systems
January 27, 2010
An innovative computational technique that draws on statistics, imaging, and other disciplines has the capability to detect errors in sensitive technological systems ranging from satellites to weather instruments.
Fog
Fog has declined in past century along California's redwood coast
California's coastal fog has decreased significantly over the past 100 years, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.
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Spillway structure releasing water from the Bonneville Dam.
Managing Pacific Northwest dams for a changing climate
Civil engineers at the University of Washington have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin could be managed for a different climate.
University of Washington
The Sun's surface.
Satellite imagery helps scientists study Sun’s plasma jets
February 22, 2010 | Solar scientists have long debated why the Sun's corona, or atmosphere, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Images retrieved by the Hinode satellite, launched in 2006, are shining some light on this paradox.
A crane on the broken windshield of a helicoptor.
Using radar to keep planes from striking birds
February 16, 2010 | NCAR researchers are collaborating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Federal Aviation Administration, Purdue University, and Indiana State University on a program to study how bird-detecting radar at airports could help prevent dangerous airplane bird strikes, such as the incident with the U.S. Airways plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in...

50th Anniversary Events

UCAR & NCAR 50th Anniversary LogoAt the Boulder Public Library

  Exhibit on the library bridge

  Public talks in the Canyon Theater

Seminars + Meetings

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