Years before it housed aircraft or supercomputers, NCAR was sending balloons into the stratosphere. Bolstered by new space-age technology, this simple but powerful observing strategy gathered critical data from hard-to-reach places.

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The new service will provide reporters with timely responses to their questions about the science of climate change.

As president of the American Meteorological Society, Margaret LeMone pondered communication-related issues for the 2011 annual meeting of the AMS.