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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 espaņol
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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