1. An image of the Sun with orange flares.

    Keeping aircraft safe

    When a geomagnetic storm blasted Earth on January 24, commercial airlines redirected a handful of flights were originally routed to fly over the North Pole. Behind the scenes, NCAR scientists play a role in safety precautions such as these.

    • Sun + Space Weather

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  2. Extreme weather forensics

    Three ways of dusting for climate fingerprints.

    • Climate

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  3. UCAR News Center

    Doping the atmosphere?

    When weather disasters happen, is climate change to blame? The stories, video, and interactives in "Weather on Steroids" explore that question from a number of angles. It turns out that blaming climate change for wild weather's not that simple. Here’s why.

    • Climate

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  4. Is this climate change?

    After years of painstaking research, scientists are now developing tools to make faster connections between disastrous weather and climate science.

    • Climate

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  5. 500-millibar weather map from the 2011 Groundhog Day snowstorm

    Case study central

    Researchers looking for images to help analyze and illustrate critical weather events may 
find what they’re looking for at the NCAR-based Meteorological Case Study Selection Kit.

    • Data,
    • Weather

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