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UCAR weather forecasts aim to reduce African meningitis epidemics

...nd public health communities. They will seek input from local officials in designing the forecasts to be as useful as possible in vulnerable areas. ncar meteorologists will begin issuing 14-day forecasts of atmospheric conditions in Ghana in 2009 by analyzing computer models run by such agencies as the...

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UCSD researchers make first direct observations of biological particles in high-altitude ice clouds

... ICE-L team mounted the mass spectrometer and an ice chamber run by Colorado State University researcher Paul DeMott onto a C-130 aircraft operated by ncar and made a series of flights through a type of cloud known as a wave cloud. The researchers performed in-situ measurements of cloud ice crystal residu...

Prominent climate researcher to speak at UH on global warming March 5

...ge them to pursue graduate studies in science and engineering. WHO: Warren M. Washington, expert in climate research and atmospheric science with ncar WHAT: NSM Dean's Lecture Series "20th and 21st Century Climate Change: Computer Modeling, Societal Impacts and Environmental Justice" WHEN: 4-5...

Climate change expert to discuss grim global warming predictions

...anging into one that will not be recognizable in 50 years and beyond." ncar provides the university science and teaching community the resources resear...weather occurrences. WHO: Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at ncar WHAT: Global Warming Colloquium WHEN: 4 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 4 WHER...

Wildfires cause ozone pollution to violate health standards, new study shows

...AR. "It's important to understand the health impacts of wildfires," says ncar scientist Gabriele Pfister, the lead author. "Ozone can hit unhealthy level...ral areas, far from urban sources of pollution, was quite noticeable," says ncar scientist Christine Wiedinmyer, a co-author of the paper. The paper not...

Plants in forest emit aspirin chemical to deal with stress; discovery may help agriculture

...heir biochemical defenses and reduce injury," says ncar scientist Thomas Karl, who led the study. "Our mea...to look for methyl salicylate in a forest, and the ncar team found the chemical by accident. They set up s...an also influence local climate. When the ncar scientists reviewed their measurements, they found...

Petascale climate modeling heats up at University of Miami

... engineering, and business worldwide. Researchers at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, collaborating with ncar (National Center for Atmospheric Research), COLA (Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospheric Studies) and the University of California at Berkeley are utilizin...

US and UK research centers launch major collaboration on atmospheric research, technology

...uns for three years, is between the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Britain's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). ncar director Timothy Killeen, NCAS Director Stephen Mobbs, and Gina Taberski of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, NCAR's managing organ...

Coral reefs may be protected by natural ocean thermostat

...re, Sports, Science, and Technology; and AIMS. The research team, led by ncar scientist Joan Kleypas, looked at the Western Pacific Warm Pool, a region n...w that sea-surface temperatures will rise substantially this century," says ncar scientist Gokhan Danabasoglu, a co-author of the study. "Unfortunately, the...

US fires release large amounts of carbon dioxide

...t." NCAR's portion of the research was supported by the National Science Foundation, NCAR's principal sponsor. The authors, Christine Wiedinmyer of ncar and Jason Neff of the University of Colorado, used satellite observations of fires and a new computer model, developed by Wiedinmyer, that estimates c...

Peat and forests save permafrost from melting

... because it shades the ground. Arain and co-author Dr. Ming-ko (Hok) Woo, professor emeritus at the School of Geography & Earth Sciences, used the ncar Community Land Model (CLM3) with several modifications and historical climate records. Their results indicated that although permafrost degradation wa...

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Oak Ridge leads DOE INCITE effort in 2008

...ture climate change including various future energy policy strategies such as new low-carbon-emission scenarios, said Warren Washington, who heads the ncar team. The program will continue to reflect the critical research role played by American industry. We're extremely happy to be able to pursue o...