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A COSMIC Introduction - FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
Take a multimedia tour of the science behind the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate, six microsatellites in low-Earth orbit that interact with GPS satellites to gather atmospheric data across the whole planet. |
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Advanced Study Program (ASP)
ASP's postdoctoral and faculty fellowships and graduate student visitor program encourage the development of young scientists and support interactions with universities. |
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Antarctica: Challenging Forecasts for a Challenging Environment
View a 12-minute overview for general audiences on Antarctica's harsh but beautiful environment and its role in shaping the global climate. The main presentation (73 minutes) features experts discussing forecasting challenges as well as present and future research topics, while elaborating on the uniqueness of Antarctica's location, topography, and weather. |
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Assessing Fire Danger
Wildfires burn acres of U.S. land each year. This course helps meteorologists and others interested in gauging fire potential learn to recognize the conditions that precede these destructive blazes. |
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Basic Weather Processes (S-290, Unit 4)
Introductory meteorology for wildland firefighters is the topic of this online course, but it provides a great introduction to meteorology for anyone with interest and about 45 minutes to spare. |
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Biocomplexity Project
An interdisciplinary team is collaborating to unravel the processes that add or remove carbon dioxide—a key greenhouse gas—from the atmosphere |
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CISL Data Support Section
Get your data here! This NCAR group provides historical scientific data to the atmospheric and oceanographic research community. |
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CISLSupercomputer Gallery
This gallery of the hardware behind much of our research covers the history of supercomputing at NCAR from our founding in 1963 to the present. |
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Climate & Global Dynamics Division
CGD research provides an understanding of the Earth's climate system and uses models to develop the capability of predicting the evolution of the climate system. |
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Climate Change: Fitting the Pieces Together
Is global warming real? Why should we care? What can be done about it? This interactive, illustrated online course, originally created for broadcast meteorologists, is also a great introduction for the general public. |
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Community Hurricane Preparedness
This online course for emergency managers and decision makers also offers a quick tour for anyone concerned about how communities can prepare for and respond to a hurricane threat. |
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Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
This NCAR laboratory provides supercomputing and cyberinfastructure services and performs basic and applied research in computational science and mathematics, including development of new mathematical tools and models. |
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Digital Library for Earth System Education
Students and teachers will find a treasure trove of web-accessible materials about the Earth system, including lesson plans, virtual field trips, and multimedia resources, at this site. |
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Disaster Dynamics: Hurricane Landfall
The Hurricane Landfall game teaches players about interactions between natural hazards and human decisions in a Gulf Coast barrier island community. It is a free experiential learning game intended for use in undergraduate classes. |
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Earth & Sun Systems Laboratory
ESSL studies atmospheric chemistry, climate and global dynamics, meteorology, and Sun-Earth interactions, and fosters collaborative projects across NCAR. |
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Earth Observing Laboratory
EOL develops and deploys observing instruments and facilities and provides data services for the atmospheric and Earth system sciences community. |
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Environmental Satellite Resource Center
The ESRC is a searchable database of satellite websites, training, and data. It's also a community site where organizations and individuals around the globe can easily submit their own resources to the database. |
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Flash Flood Processes
Learn the differences between flash floods and general floods and examine the hydrologic processes that affect flash flood severity.
Then see how flash flood guidance is developed. |
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Flow Interaction with Topography
When air encounters mountains, will it go up and over, around the sides, or come to a stop? Learn about the interplay of atmosphere and topography in this multimedia course. |
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GIS Climate Change Scenarios
Download data sets from the Community Climate System Model and explore scenarios using GIS tools for visualization, analysis, and mapping of global climate change. |
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GLOBE Program
GLOBE is a worldwide, hands-on, primary and secondary school science program that provides access to a vast array of educational materials for teachers and students. |
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Gap Winds
Pilots, sailors, and hikers all experience strong winds when traveling near exits to channels, passes, and other gaps. Learn the fine points of gap flow in this multimedia course. |
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Great World Wide Star Count
Schoolchildren, families, and citizen scientists are gazing skyward after dark to help researchers map light pollution around the world. |
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HIAPER
Studies of sky and Earth will get a big boost from HIAPER, the High-Performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research, funded by the National Science Foundation. |
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Hurricane Strike!
Students, teachers, and anyone else who'd like to know more about hurricane science and safety will find it all here in a highly interactive multimedia short course. |
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Integrated Science Program (ISP)
ISP promotes the scientific frontiers that are dependent on an integrated approach, across NCAR laboratories and across disciplines. |
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International Fisheries & Climate Variability
Three NCAR projects look at the impacts of climate variability on the abundance and distribution of important fish food supplies and the implications for effective international fisheries management. |
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Introduction to Ocean Tides
Explore the origin, characteristics, and prediction of tides and learn about the mechanisms that cause and modify tide behavior, including astronomical and meteorological effects. |
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Introduction to Tropical Meteorology
This new textbook comes with a twist: it is being published incrementally online. Appropriate for undergraduates, early graduate students, and current or prospective tropical forecasters, this COMET publication includes graphics and a printable PDF version. |
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Mauna Loa Solar Observatory
View daily images of the Sun captured by our solar observatory, which perches atop Mauna Loa, Hawai'i. An array of instruments use different wavelengths to capture the Sun's activity. |
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Measure Your World
Many students and citizen scientists have attempted to replicate the technique introduced by Eratosthenes to determine the circumference of the Earth. See what happens when students from the United States, Chile, and Mexico partner to do just that. |
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Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology
NCAR researchers investigate some of the most important and fundamental questions about our planet's weather. Find out what scientists are studying in NCAR's Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology division. |
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Mesoscale Meteorology: A Primer for Forecasters
This Web-based distance learning curriculum is designed to improve understanding and forecasting of regional-scale weather phenomena by operational meteorologists and students. The collection of modules uses streaming audio, conceptual animations, and frequent interaction. |
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MetEd en español
This Spanish gateway to COMET's online training in meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, and environmental science describes all the site's offerings, including webcasts and training in Spanish. The Spanish Resource page includes bilingual and monolingual dictionaries and glossaries. |
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MetEd
Whether you're a professional, student, or just someone interested in learning more about weather forecasting, hydrology, oceanography, or environmental science, you'll find a wealth of online information and instructional materials on MetEd, a service of the COMET Program. |
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Microwave Remote Sensing Overview
Microwaves penetrate clouds that can block a satellite?s view. This training module introduces polar-orbiting satellite characteristics, current microwave instruments, and the imagery and products available from these sensors. |
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Mountain Breezes
Terrain has a strong influence on local wind and weather, as this course explains with a detailed look at how mountain and valley breezes shift with daytime heating and nighttime cooling. |
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Mountain Waves & Downslope Winds
Learn alongside an Air Force meteorologist in this multimedia course exploring the fierce windstorms and turbulent skies that make forecasting near mountain ranges challenging. |
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NCAR Visualizations
Explore scientific visualizations and animations to see the inner workings of the atmosphere, ocean, Sun, and other mysteries of our Earth system. |
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National Science Digital Library
A wealth of online resources for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education is growing at the NSDL site, which holds over one million records. |
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Observing Earth from Space with FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
This webcast illustrates and explains radio occultation, the method used by a new constellation of satellites to gather detailed data on the state of Earth's atmosphere for weather, climate, and space weather research and forecasting. |
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On the Record
Find interviews and statements here by NCAR and UCAR experts on topics making the news. |
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Physics of the Aurora
Learn how the Earth’s magnetic field and upper atmosphere capture the solar wind to light up the polar night sky. |
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Press Clips
Find out how journalists are covering people and projects at NCAR and UCAR. |
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Remote Sensing Using Satellites
Satellite observations measure the status and health of our planet. Learn some of the basic principles of satellite-based observation and how satellite imagery of rain forests, hurricanes, ocean temperatures, and other phenomena are interpreted. |
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Research Applications Laboratory
NCAR's applied science lab specializes in the transfer of knowledge and technology developed in the atmospheric sciences to the public and private sectors. RAL programs include decision support for aviation, surface transportation, and other sectors; developing and testing weather prediction systems; supporting water resources decision making; national security, and emerging technologies. |
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River Ice Processes
This webcast explores the formation, growth, breakup, and transport of river ice and how it can become jammed, triggering floods. Learn how ice jams are forecasted, too. |
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Runoff Processes
Get a thorough introduction to the runoff processes critical for flood and water supply prediction, including key terminology, paths, basin and soil properties, and runoff modeling. |
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Sea Breezes
Understanding and forecasting sea breezes requires knowledge of the local environment, including coastline, terrain, land cover, and prevailing weather patterns. Find out how its done in this multimedia course. |
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Space Weather Basics
Learn about the Sun's origin, structure, and energy production; types of space weather; and how Earth's outer atmosphere responds. |
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Specialized Weather Displays
NCAR's Research Applications Program develops specialized weather displays for a wide range of users including pilots, airport operators, road crews, and weather forecasters. |
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Studying Air Pollution in Megacities
MILAGRO brought researchers and equipment from around the world to Mexico City to study what happens to pollution as it blows downwind of a major city. Meet the researchers and learn more at this site, available in English and Spanish. |
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Topics in Tropical Meteorology
Six short studies of air and ocean processes that influence tropical cyclone formation are the subject of this free, online course that should take less than an hour to complete. |
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UCAR Digital Image Library
Browse and download photographs and illustrations of clouds, lightning, tornadoes, floods, storms, air pollution, and more. View stock video footage and animations, too. |
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Understanding Drought
This 45-minute learning module from UCAR's COMET Program explores how drought is monitored, measured, and predicted. Although created for meteorologists, the module is accessible to anyone interested in exploring this "creeping disaster." |
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Unidata Program Center
UCAR's Unidata program provides a broad array of geoscience data, analysis, and visualization tools to educators and the research community. |
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Urban Flooding: It Can Happen in a Flash!
Take an audiovisual tour, including eyewitness accounts, of the flood that struck Fort Collins, Colorado, on July 28, 1997. This interactive virtual field trip also explains how flash floods behave in other urban settings. |
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Ventanas al Universo
nuestro planeta, nuestro sistema solar, el clima de la Tierra y mucho más - Switch between Spanish and English versions of Windows to the Universe to explore Earth and space sciences, from geology to astronomy, to meteorology, to culture and more. |
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Visiting Scientist Programs
This UCAR Community Program develops and manages visiting scientist programs for long-term projects and provides logistical support for panels, workshops, and colloquia. |
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Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment
Designed for meteorologists, this narrated, interactive, movie-style course is also for anyone wanting to learn more about the rivers and streams around them and how human actions can affect the outcome of weather events--for better or worse. |
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Wave Types & Characteristics
Everything you always wanted to know, and more, about waves in wind, tides, tsunamis, and other phenomena is described in this multimedia course. |
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Weather & Society * Integrated Studies
This NCAR program is integrating weather and social science to empower all sectors of the weather enterprise to forge new relationships, use new tools, and increase the effectiveness of weather products. |
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Weather and Health
This online course connects flu to falling temperatures and finds a link between heart attacks and cold snaps. Created for broadcast meteorologists and anyone with an interest in how weather affects health. |
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Weather and Road Management
This module provides an overview of weather, severe weather, and the interpretation of forecasts to help staff in departments of transportation understand the forces affecting their decisions. |
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Weather and the Built Environment
The way we build our communities and homes affects our local streams, air quality and climate.
This short course provides broadcast meteorologists, educators, and the public with an overview of how this happens and ways to soften our impact -- from simple changes in commuting and housekeeping to larger changes in how we build houses and roads. |
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Windows to the Universe
Explore the Earth and space sciences, from geology to astronomy, to meteorology, to culture and more, in both English and Spanish. |
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Windshear and Turbulence Warning System
NCAR experts custom-designed a high wind warning system for the challenging conditions at Hong Kong's international airport, which opened its doors in 1998. |
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