NCAR researchers are increasingly adopting an innovative tool for statistical computing and graphics. Called R, this community software project is the statistics equivalent of the LINUX movement.

A group of scientists has put forth a new tool that combines four distinct measures of climate change into a single number—and the trend is clearly in one direction.

There was a palpable sense of history in the making across Europe as some 15,000 expected participants in the Copenhagen climate conference began to converge upon the Continent.

UCAR is concerned that emails and data, including personal information about individuals, have been hacked from the University of East Anglia. The selective publication of some stolen emails and other papers taken out of context is not a responsible way to engage on the issue of climate change.

Margaret "Peggy" LeMone takes another stab at the challenge of showing that snow depth decreases at least in part because the snow “settles” and increases in density.