1. NCAR Meteo VR and AR apps: virtual and augmented reality

    New apps set atmospheric data spinning in 3D

    NCAR has created two apps: one using virtual-reality and one using augmented-reality techniques to create 3D visualizations of data sets on a globe.

    • Data,
    • Education + Outreach

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  2. An image of an Amazon Web Services data center.

    Forecast for big data: Mostly cloudy

    UCAR has partnered with Amazon to provide weather data in the cloud.

    • Data

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  3. UCAR to support EarthCube: Computer simulation of Hurricane Sandy

    UCAR to support EarthCube: Cyberinfrastructure will advance science

    The NSF initiative will foster collaborations among geoscientists by creating a common infrastructure for researchers to collect, access, analyze, share, and visualize all forms of data and related resources.

    • Data

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  4. Data assimilation: Weather forecast map of southeastern US

    Wrangling observations into models

    Part science, part art, data assimilation improves simulations by bringing a range of measurements – be they sparse, dense, or irregularly scattered – into computer models.

    • Data,
    • Supercomputing

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  5. Visualizations of Earth, air, fire, and water

    Earth Science Week 2015: NCAR visualizes Earth, air, fire & water

    Software engineers and scientists collaborate to visualize research.

    • Climate,
    • Data,
    • Weather

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