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Sponsors recent Ph.D. scientists and students in Ph.D. programs, bringing them to NCAR to expand their own studies and enrich the center's research. ASP also offers seminars, workshops, and colloquia on areas of particular importance to the atmospheric sciences.
Focuses on global- and regional-scale air quality and problems related to the complex interactions among the oceans, ecosystems, and atmosphere. Researchers study the cycles of chemicals in the atmosphere, ways in which the composition of the air evolves, and the impact of human activities on atmospheric chemistry.
Provides observing facilities and instrumentation to the atmospheric and related sciences, including advanced radars, research aircraft, flux measurement systems, and integrated sounding systems. These facilities allow investigators around the globe to gather raw data required for their research programs.
Contributes to better prediction of weather and climate through the development of models that promote understanding of the physical causes of past, present, and future climates and large-scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics.
Improves understanding of the interactions between the atmosphere, environmental processes, and society, and communicates information related to atmospheric science to a broad community of researchers and decision makers through research and workshops. ESIG staff assess how societies might better understand and cope with severe weather and climate shifts.
Carries out research into the solar interior, the influence of magnetic fields on the structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, and the links between the variable solar output and the earth's magnetosphere and outer atmosphere. Because some solar changes influence the earth's space environment and its climate, understanding solar variability is fundamental to understanding and potentially predicting the variability of the earth's atmosphere.
Investigates the basic physical processes that govern the weather: how the atmosphere and the earth receive incoming radiation, scatter and absorb it, and retransmit it; how weather and climate are affected by terrain and the characteristics of soil and vegetation; how severe storm systems develop and die; and how precipitation processes occur.
Contributes to improved aviation safety through research on thunderstorms, icing conditions, snowstorms, wind shear, and turbulence. RAP develops early-warning systems that help save lives and aircraft at U.S. airports and that increase the efficiency and capacity of the nation's air space.
Provides supercomputing resources, scientific visualization tools and facilities, high-speed networks, and associated data processing capabilities on a variety of computing machines. In close collaboration with other NCAR divisions, SCD assists in advancing atmospheric research across a broad front. SCD's data archives included over 135 terabytes as of mid-1998. Its Climate Simulation Laboratory (cosponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program) provides some 14 gigaflops of supercomputing power for NCAR's climate systems model and over 7 gigaflops for university researchers.
Operates a collaborative science project between the United States and Taiwan to launch a constellation of eight microsatellites. Upon its deployment, COSMIC will collect atmospheric remote-sensing data for weather prediction, climate, and ionospheric and gravity research.
Improves the weather services of the nation by involving research scientists and academic scholars in the continuing education of weather forecasters and the development of new forecast techniques. The COMET® Program offers courses, symposia, and workshops and produces interactive computer-based learning systems.
Investigates ground-based and satellite-based Global Positioning System (GST) data as a tool for observing the atmosphere. Part of GST, the University NAVSTAR Consortium (UNAVCO), provides technical support and equipment to investigators using measurements to better understand such phenomena as earthquakes and volcanoes.
Increases coherence, as viewed by users, of data services and related efforts across all of UCAR and does so with methods that can be applied outside the organization, especially at universities engaged in producing and managing data. The IITA is a joint UCAR/NCAR/UOP effort.
Provides scientific, technical, and administrative support services to the research community for planning, organizing, and implementing research programs and associated field projects worldwide. Most JOSS services and products fall in three broad categories:
(1) community support, including planning advice, meeting management, program office administration, publications, and visitor programs;
(2) field program support, including program planning and design, site surveys, and field operation logistics and management; and
(3) data management, including system design and the collection, quality control, formatting, and customized delivery of scientific project data.
This program, still under development, is designed to offer educators the tools they need to create interactive, real-world-based curricula. The mission of PAGE is to enhance undergraduate geoscience education through the application of contemporary pedagogies and new educational technologies.
Helps over 135 universities acquire and use atmospheric and other geophysical data for research and teaching, develops computer programs for data manipulation and display, and provides current weather data to universities via the Internet.
Operates programs designed to support and broaden education and research in the atmospheric, oceanic, and related sciences through fellowships to researchers at graduate, postgraduate, and more advanced levels.
Monitors the activities of the U.S. Congress and keeps the UCAR community informed on budgetary, legislative, and policy developments involving UCAR, NCAR, UOP, NSF, and other agencies of importance to the atmospheric and related sciences. Promotes the growth and well-being of UCAR's programs and activities by supporting a broad range of grant-seeking activities in the public and private sectors, assisting with educational project development, and supporting UCAR-affiliated programs that pursue environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The latter include the Boulder County Healthy Communities Initiative (BCHCI) and Switching Waste to Profits (SWaP), projects of the Walter Orr Roberts Institute.
Acts as UCAR's exclusive agent for commerical endeavors. The nonprofit UCAR Foundation includes officers and a board of directors drawn from UCAR, universities, and the private sector. Revenue flows to the foundation through equity positions, license fees, and royalties on the sales of resulting commercial products. A substantial portion of the revenue generated is returned to UCAR for the advancement of its scientific programs.
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University of Alabama in Huntsville University of Alaska University of Arizona California Institute of Technology University of California, Davis University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of Chicago Colorado State University University of Colorado Cornell University University of Denver Drexel University Florida State University Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University University of Hawaii University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Iowa State University University of Iowa Johns Hopkins University University of Maryland Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University University of Miami University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Missouri Naval Postgraduate School University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Nevada University of New Hampshire |
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology New York University State University of New York at Albany North Carolina State University Ohio State University University of Oklahoma Old Dominion University Oregon State University Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Purdue University University of Rhode Island Rice University Saint Louis University Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego Stanford University Texas A&M University University of Texas at Austin Texas Technological University University of Toronto Utah State University University of Utah University of Virginia Washington State University University of Washington University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution University of Wyoming Yale University York University
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Air Force Institute of Technology University of Charleston City College of New York Clark Atlanta University Jackson State University University of Kansas Lyndon State College Universidad Metropolitana Millersville University of Pennsylvania State University of New York at Brockport |
University of North Dakota Northeast Louisiana University Plymouth State College Rhodes College Rutgers University St. Cloud State University San Francisco State University San Jose State University South Dakota School of Mines and Technology U. S. Naval Academy
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Australian National University, Canberra Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia Monash University, Clayton, Australia Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil Atmospheric Environment Service, Downsview, Ontario, Canada City University of Hong Kong, China Hong Kong Royal Observatory, China Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Lanzhou Institute for Atmospheric Physics, China Peking University, Beijing, China Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark University of Manchester, England Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft-und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany |
Universität Hamburg, Germany Universität Köln, Germany Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany Tel Aviv University, Israel UniversitÀ degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan University of Tokyo, Japan University of Nairobi, Kenya Seoul National University, Korea Malaysian Meteorological Service, Kuala Lumpur Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Mexico Centro del Agua del Trópico Húmedo para América Latina y El Caribe, Panama City, Panama Instituto Geofísico del Peru, Lima Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Madrid, Spain International Meteorological Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan National Central University, Chung Li, Taiwan National Taiwan University, Taipei |
