Over the last half century, the NSF NCAR Dropsonde Program has remained the leader in developing dropsonde technology.

Ying-Hwa "Bill" Kuo, who has directed the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) portfolio of community programs since 2015, announced he will step down in March 2025.

The warming climate will accelerate permafrost thawing and lead to an intensification of wildfires in regions of northern Canada and Siberia.

For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun’s global coronal magnetic field, a region of the Sun that has only been observed irregularly in the past. The resulting observations are providing valuable insights into the processes that drive the intense solar storms that impact fundamental technologies, and thus lives and livelihoods, here on Earth.

NSF NCAR has named Lewis Groswald its new strategic partnerships lead. Groswald comes to NSF NCAR from Lockheed Martin, where he led government relations in weather and Earth science for the company’s commercial civil space portfolio in Washington, D.C.