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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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