In a new study, scientists at NCAR show that the average March precipitation over the next 10 years in western Europe is predictable using a novel method. The research team also issued a forecast for the coming years.

Congress has acted to avoid a government shutdown, the House Science Committee held a hearing on forecasting extreme weather events in a changing climate, and the Senate approved its version of a bill to fund the federal science agencies.

Researchers at CU Boulder and NCAR have been awarded $3 million in funding from NSF to study the changing climate and rivers of Alaska and western Canada.

NCAR has started to generate high-resolution experimental, 48-hour forecasts of air pollutants across the contiguous United States.

A panel of experts at a congressional briefing warned that increasingly powerful hurricanes, sea level rise, and other changing aspects of Earth's climate system are posing new challenges to the U.S. military.