1. Cookstoves and air quality: A rural stove using biomass cakes, fuelwood and trash as cooking fuel

    Researchers seek to reduce deadly air pollution from open-fire cooking

    A new grant will help researchers measure pollution from open-fire cooking and better understand a problem that kills millions of women and children in developing countries.

    • Air Quality

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  2. Research radar on the road: S-Pol radar in the Maldives

    Students run radar from afar

    In a first for NCAR, the center’s Colorado-based S-Pol research radar is being operated from 1,600 miles away. Four students at North Carolina State University are learning about severe storm structure and radar operations at the same time.

    • Education + Outreach

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  3. Hurricanes, risk, and response: National Guard monitors Key West beach as Hurricane Ike approaches, 9/9/08

    A hurricane by any name

    The perceived gender of a hurricane’s name is just one of many factors potentially shaping how someone reacts to a given storm, according to several scientists at NCAR who take a multifaceted approach to studying hurricane response.

    • Weather

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  4. Climate simulations for late 21st-century temperature from different scenarios: IPCC AR5, Ch. 12, FAQ 12.1

    A deeper dive into 21st-century climate

    Researchers are finding new ways to work with aspects of climate change that are surprisingly linear, an approach that could help save time and money in future climate research while providing a richer range of information to help guide policy.

    • Climate

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  5. Sources of airborne wind energy: Forecast-model depiction of winds at 850-mb level on 1/30/13

    A mother lode of wind power

    What if all the energy needed by society existed just a mile or two above our heads? NCAR, the University of Delaware, and the energy firm Garrad Hassan have begun examining where the strongest winds are and how much electricity they may be able to generate.

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