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Irrigation alleviates hot extremes driven by human-caused climate change
New research finds that irrigation can cancel out, or even reverse, the increased risk of heat extremes associated with human-caused climate change.
- Climate
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Future greenhouse gas emissions will determine fate of emperor penguins
Reduced emissions under the Paris Agreement would minimize the loss of Antarctic sea ice, helping emperor penguins to survive.
- Climate
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NCAR climate model dataset available on the cloud
A massive dataset that is widely used by the climate and atmospheric research community to study phenomena such as extreme rainfall, ice loss, and extended droughts in North America, is now freely available on the commercial cloud.
- Climate,
- Data,
- Supercomputing
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Researchers partner with Native Alaskan, Yukon communities to study climate impacts on rivers, fish
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.
- Climate
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UCAR Congressional Briefing: Weather and climate risks to national security
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.
- Climate,
- Government Relations,
- Weather