1. Pollution, fires, warming west: A fire burns on Camp Pendleton, California

    Pollution, wildfires, and a warming California

    California will likely experience more large fires in forested areas this century because of rising temperatures and changes in precipitation along with development patterns, new research finds. The blazes could increase some types of fire-generated air pollution by more than half.

    • Climate,
    • Air Quality

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  2. Cookstoves and air quality: A rural stove using biomass cakes, fuelwood and trash as cooking fuel

    Researchers seek to reduce deadly air pollution from open-fire cooking

    A new grant will help researchers measure pollution from open-fire cooking and better understand a problem that kills millions of women and children in developing countries.

    • Air Quality

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  3. Research radar on the road: S-Pol radar in the Maldives

    Students run radar from afar

    In a first for NCAR, the center’s Colorado-based S-Pol research radar is being operated from 1,600 miles away. Four students at North Carolina State University are learning about severe storm structure and radar operations at the same time.

    • Education + Outreach

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  4. Hurricanes, risk, and response: National Guard monitors Key West beach as Hurricane Ike approaches, 9/9/08

    A hurricane by any name

    The perceived gender of a hurricane’s name is just one of many factors potentially shaping how someone reacts to a given storm, according to several scientists at NCAR who take a multifaceted approach to studying hurricane response.

    • Weather

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  5. Climate simulations for late 21st-century temperature from different scenarios: IPCC AR5, Ch. 12, FAQ 12.1

    A deeper dive into 21st-century climate

    Researchers are finding new ways to work with aspects of climate change that are surprisingly linear, an approach that could help save time and money in future climate research while providing a richer range of information to help guide policy.

    • Climate

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