The NSF NCAR Mesa Lab and Fleischmann buildings will be closed on Monday, Dec. 23, due to nearby water leak.

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  1. Andy Heymsfield

    The hole story

    They’ve been called “crop circles in the sky.” Across the world, sightings of oddly circular holes within cloud layers—dubbed hole-punch clouds by scientists—have triggered bemusement and speculation.

    • Weather

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  2. Hand holding key

    Open access 101

    New, more interactive and versatile uses of the Web are beginning to enable profound changes in the entire life cycle of scientific publications. Among these developments, one that is currently looming large in many scientists’ minds is open access.

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  3. NCAR Mauna Loa Solar Observatory

    Blue skies—and more data

    NCAR’s Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter (CoMP) found a new home early this year on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, a high-elevation paradise for astronomical observers.

    • Sun + Space Weather

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  4. Alice Lecinski, Phil Judge, and Don Kolinski

    A century of eclipses

    Between 1969 and 1971, NCAR scientist John Eddy set out to archive an important part of the history of both photography and astronomy. Eddy collected more than 100 pictures of total solar eclipses taken from the late 1800s into the mid-1900s.

    • Sun + Space Weather

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  5. Roger Wakimoto at VORTEX2

    Wakimoto at the helm

    In January 2010, Roger Wakimoto was asked to direct NCAR. “Roger is a world-class scientist and administrator with broad knowledge of both the atmospheric sciences and the university community that NCAR serves,” says UCAR president Richard Anthes.

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