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NCAR selects IBM for key components of new supercomputing center
November 7, 2011
The powerful new system, named Yellowstone, will be installed early next year at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
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Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper recognizes NCAR for dropsonde research
November 9, 2011
The governor will present the annual awards for “High Impact Research” on November 15 to teams from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and three other Colorado-based research centers for scientific breakthroughs.
Thomas Bogdan named president of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
October 18, 2011
Bogdan, who will take over the reins at UCAR on January 9, 2012, joins UCAR from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, where he is director.
UCAR Magazine
The Lenschow Lens: Geometry and solar radiation in action
Margaret LeMone | 8 November 2011  •  As Don Lenschow walked on the sidewalk near the recently refurbished Anthes Building on 13 October, he noticed a patch of very warm air. Don, a colleague of mine in NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division (MMM), was on his way to work around 9:25 a.m. MDT when the warm air caught his attention. Puzzled, he stopped to assess the situation. Warm air from the nearby sewer grate? None.
UCAR Magazine
Texas–Oklahoma drought: What next for the Southern Plains?
Bob Henson | 20 September 2011  •  It finally rained in Pecos. On 14 September, the West Texas town received a modest but welcome 0.13 inches, plus another 0.27” in the following three days (about 16 millimeters total) . Normally that wouldn’t be big news—except the last time Pecos had gotten any substantial rain was on 23 September 2010. During the intervening year, the town scraped by with a mere 0.03” (1 mm). 
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Modeling study captures deadly tornado outbreak
October 26, 2011 | NCAR scientists have performed one of the most detailed simulations ever of a massive tornado outbreak. In late April 2011, an extremely violent spate of tornadoes, dubbed the Super Outbreak, tore a path of destruction through the southern and eastern parts of the United States, making April 27 the deadliest U.S. tornado day since 1925. Especially hard hit was Alabama, where a...
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El Niño and climate change in the coming century
October 17, 2011 | Climate change is not expected to affect the extent or frequency of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over the 21st century, but it could worsen its impacts. That’s the conclusion of a modeling study published in Journal of Climate in September.
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Future Holds More Extreme Weather
11/01/2011
• ABC News - Online
• Seth Borenstein
U.S. launches prototype satellite
10/28/2011
• UPI.com
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Prepare for another snowy winter, says climatologist
10/24/2011
• St. Cloud Times
• Kevin Allenspach
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Thomas Bogdan named president of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Bogdan, who will take over the reins at UCAR on January 9, 2012, joins UCAR from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, where he is director.

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