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  1. View of Antarctic sky from NSF/NCAR HIAPER research jet

    Where's the atmosphere's self-cleaning power?

    In a surprising finding, a research team concludes that the dominant "detergent" in the atmosphere is equally abundant in the northern and southern hemispheres.

    • Air Quality

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  2. Ground-level ozone's toll: A traffic jam in Delhi, India

    Ground-level ozone's toll in India

    Ozone pollution in India is damaging millions of tons of the country’s major crops, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. The pollution caused losses of more than $1 billion in a single year, destroying enough food to feed an estimated 94 million people.

    • Air Quality

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  3. Decadal prediction: Map showing trends in sea surface temperature

    Progress on decadal climate prediction

    If today’s tools for multiyear climate forecasting had been available in the 1990s, they would have revealed that a slowdown in global warming was likely on the way, according to new research.

    • Climate

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  4. Cloud streets above Bering Sea off south coast of Alaska, 4/7/13

    Making research data more traceable

    With support from NSF's EarthCube initiative, UCAR is launching a project with two partners—Cornell University and UNAVCO—that aims to connect the dots among field experiments, research teams, datasets, research instruments, and published findings.

    • Data

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  5. Colorado flood: flood waters in south Boulder, Colorado, September 12, 2013

    A new way to forecast floods

    Almost a year after Colorado’s deadly and destructive floods of September 2013, a group of NCAR scientists has just completed testing an innovative new system for detecting and predicting torrential rainfall as well as the risk of local flooding.

    • Weather

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