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Switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate, study indicates
The study underscores the complex and sometimes conflicting ways in which fossil fuel burning affects Earth’s climate.
- Climate
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Detailed global portrait of greenhouse gases emerges from pole-to-pole flights
The HIPPO field project is enabling researchers to generate the first detailed 3-D mapping of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect Earth’s climate.
- Climate,
- Air Quality
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NCAR colloquium looks at African weather and climate
A group of scholars and students from nine countries came together in Boulder this summer for two weeks of study dedicated to the world’s second largest and second most populous continent.
- Climate,
- Weather
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Special delivery
A small but active group of discipline-crossing specialists are analyzing the response of disease transmission to temperature, moisture, and other atmospheric variables.
- Climate
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Ice sheets and climate change during the late Pleistocene
New research that involves NCAR's Bette Otto-Bliesner questions conventional wisdom with regard to massive iceberg discharges in the North Atlantic Ocean during the last glacial period, pointing toward climate rather than ice sheet instability as a cause.
- Climate