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The 2-degree goal and the question of geoengineering
If society doesn't make steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the next few decades, how much injection into the atmosphere of planet-cooling sulfates would it take to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels?
- Climate
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NSF/NCAR research plane assisting with U.S. hurricane forecasts
The advanced Gulfstream-V research aircraft will take critical observations of powerful storms
- Weather
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Solar energy gets boost from new forecasting system
NCAR and its collaborators have successfully developed cutting-edge forecasts to make solar energy more effective.
- Weather
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US taps NCAR technology for new water resources forecasts
NOAA is using an advanced NCAR prediction system as the core of the new National Water Model.
- Water,
- Weather
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Climate change already accelerating sea level rise, study finds
Greenhouse gases are already having an accelerating effect on sea level rise, but the impact has so far been masked by the cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.
- Climate