1. Winter driving: Where the rubber meets the road

    What if the vehicles ahead of you could send weather data to a smart system, warning you of ice or fog just ahead?

    • Weather

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  2. Closeup of a ruler

    Accumulated wisdom: How to measure snow

    It takes more than a ruler in a snowbank to get accurate snow depth measurements.

    • Weather

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  3. Where snow is born: Getting on top of winter storms

    PLOWS campaign opens a window on how snow develops in clouds.

    • Weather

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  4. UCAR Magazine

    A world’s worth of climate research

    Understanding and predicting both climate variability and change—on all spatial and time scales—was the theme of the first-ever Open Science Conference of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP).

    • Climate

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  5. Six wind turbines in a field, with stratocumulous in the background

    NCAR wind forecasts save millions of dollars for Xcel Energy

    The new system enables utility operators to constantly anticipate the amount of energy produced by wind farms across Xcel’s service area.

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