1. Display of anemometers as part of NCAR's new "Watching the Weather" exhibit

    New exhibit brings wild weather to life for NCAR visitors

    A new exhibit at NCAR's Mesa Laboratory will convey the power of thunderstorms, blizzards, hurricanes, and more to tens of thousands of visitors each year.

    • Education + Outreach

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  2. NCAR's Cray1A supercomputer

    Key moments in NCAR supercomputing

    State-of-the-art computing and big-data processing have been part of NCAR from the center’s earliest years. Here’s a snapshot of selected milestones in hardware improvement.

    • Supercomputing

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  3. Close-up depiction of solar turbulence

    First up: Accelerated scientific discovery

    First in the queue for the NCAR-Wyoming Yellowstone system is a set of 11 computing-intensive projects tackling major problems in Earth and atmospheric science.

    • Climate,
    • Air Quality,
    • Supercomputing,
    • Weather

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  4. Fish-eye view of some of Yellowstone's racks

    Power meets efficiency

    The nation’s newest computing facility for atmospheric and related science is poised to take the nation’s infrastructure for weather prediction, climate projection, space weather, and other key tasks to the next level.

    • Supercomputing

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  5. UCAR Magazine

    Storms in plane sight

    Scientists are analyzing results from a project that pulled together chemists, radar experts, cloud physicists, forecasters, pilots, and other specialists to investigate the evolution of thunderstorms.

    • Air Quality

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