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US and UK research centers launch major collaboration on weather and climate research
The agreement will help the two countries increase their joint research into the complexities of climate change.
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Tornado researchers catch a squall line during VORTEX2
In the spring of 2009, researchers on the Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2) field project set out across the Great Plains to study tornadoes, but that’s not the only phenomenon they observed.
- Weather
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Breaking ground on a groundbreaking center
More than 100 people assembled on the outskirts of Cheyenne, Wyoming, on 15 June for the official kickoff of construction on the NCAR–Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
- Supercomputing
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Mysterious clouds produced when aircraft inadvertently cause rain or snow
Turboprop and jet aircraft can create hole-punch clouds, which have long fascinated the public.
- Weather
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The hole story
They’ve been called “crop circles in the sky.” Across the world, sightings of oddly circular holes within cloud layers—dubbed hole-punch clouds by scientists—have triggered bemusement and speculation.
- Weather