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541 assets from 19 organizations
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National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Atmospheric Sounding Processing ENvironment: cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows) quality control and analysis of dropsonde and upsonde sounding data, with automatic QC, tabular/graphical displays, WMO message coding and transmission,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System: parachuted GPS dropsondes launched from aircraft measure high-resolution profiles of temperature, pressure, humidity and wind to the surface, telemetered in real time to the aircraft; used in…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,888,660-B2 "Band Filter for Filtering a Discrete Time Series Signal", issued 2024-01-30; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Hubbert, John (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
EOL laboratory for evaluating and calibrating in-situ meteorological sensors and instruments, able to simulate pressure, temperature, humidity, altitude and wind-speed conditions using an altitude/temperature chamber, wind tunnel, humidity…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
100-member CESM2 ensemble at 1-degree resolution for 1850–2100 under CMIP6 historical and SSP370 forcing, with two biomass-burning forcing variants and AMOC-based initial-state design for ensemble spread; includes extended "MOAR" output…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
10-member CESM2 (1-degree) ensemble in which eastern tropical Pacific SST anomalies are nudged to ERSSTv5 observations over 1880–2019, so the observed ENSO evolution is maintained while the rest of the coupled climate evolves freely…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
CAM-chem simulation output at 0.9x1.25 degree resolution with 56 vertical levels and MERRA2-specified dynamics, intended as chemical boundary conditions for regional modeling; 6-hourly from January 2001 (netCDF).
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Chromospheric Helium-I Imaging Photometer: a differential imager using the He I 1083 nm line (with nearby calibration wavelengths) via a tunable liquid-crystal Lyot filter and IR CCD, producing images every 3 minutes for CME, coronal-hole…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
CDP, an underwing optical probe (updated FSSP design) that sizes and counts individual cloud droplets from laser-light scattering, giving cloud particle size distributions across 2–50 µm at up to 25 Hz; flown on the GV.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
NSF NCAR's community-developed Earth system model providing state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth system; rooted in the 1983 atmosphere model, with land, ocean and sea-ice components added in the mid-1990s and community…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
K-Cor: an internally occulted refractive coronagraph recording polarization brightness of the low corona (1.05–3 solar radii) at 15 s cadence to study CME formation and coronal density; deployed to the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory in…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Final, calibrated low-rate (1 sample/s) navigation, state-parameter and microphysics flight-level data from the NSF/NCAR HIAPER GV aircraft during the DEEPWAVE project (May–July 2014), in NCAR/RAF netCDF format with DGPS merged and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
NSF NCAR computing for the research community: Derecho, an HPE Cray EX supercomputer (19.87 petaflops, 20% GPU capability) housed with the GLADE storage system at the NSF NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, plus data analysis and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
EOL engineering and machine-shop group providing engineering design and fabrication services to support development of scientific instrumentation for observational research projects.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 12,061,287 B2 "Differential Absorption Lidar for Profiling Temperature", issued 2024-08-13; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Stillwell, Robert; Spuler, Scott; Hayman, Matthew; Repasky, Kevin S. (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Scalable EOL services for atmospheric field programs: data management (including the Field Catalog), tiered project-management and operations support (planning, land leases, permits, logistics, operations plans), and operations-center and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
ECMWF ERA5, the fifth-generation global atmospheric reanalysis (successor to ERA-Interim), produced with 4D-Var data assimilation in IFS cycle CY41r2 at 31 km and interpolated to 37 pressure levels plus surface fields; hourly data from…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Repository for the Community Atmosphere Model, with officially supported branches for the CESM2.2 and CESM2.1 CAM releases and an unsupported development branch; components are managed with git-fleximod.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Fellowships bringing early-career scientists and faculty to NSF NCAR: ASP Postdoctoral Fellowships, the HAO Newkirk Fellowship for graduate students, and RAL's Najeeb E. Halaby Fellowship with the Aviation Weather Research Program.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR distinguished scholar and former director of NCAR's Atmospheric Chemistry Division; expertise in middle-atmosphere photochemistry, chemistry–climate relations, stratospheric ozone, global air pollution and air-quality prediction;…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Airborne, polarimetric, millimeter-wavelength (94.4 GHz) cloud radar in an underwing pod of the NSF/NCAR HIAPER GV, with a rotatable reflector for 240° cross-track scanning or zenith/nadir staring; provides reflectivity, velocity and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
HAO visitor program offering short-term visits with financial support for students, postdocs and established researchers (including sabbaticals) in solar, solar-terrestrial and related physics, with access to HAO and NCAR computing,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Deployable lower-atmosphere observing system combining radiosondes, radar wind profilers (449/915/1290 MHz) with RASS, a scanning Doppler wind lidar, ceilometers, an infrared spectrometer and surface meteorology; deployable in standard,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Deployable surface observing system for atmosphere–surface exchange studies, combining a network of surface weather stations with intensive single-site micrometeorological tower arrays; measures fluxes by eddy correlation, radiation, soil…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 9,952,031 "Interferometer", issued 2018-04-24; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Hannigan, James; Mankin, William (ACOM). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the page.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Core software of LROSE, the Lidar Radar Open Software Environment, a CSU–NCAR EOL cooperative project funded by NSF: libraries and applications (including the Radx library and dual-polarization apps) with RPM/DEB/Homebrew installs and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
LROSE page listing radar/lidar data formats in native polar coordinates supported by the Radx library (read/write), and describing the standardized self-describing formats used, chiefly CfRadial (CF-convention NetCDF for radar moments) and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NCAR senior scientist emerita in boundary-layer meteorology: surface–cloud interactions, roll vortices and coherent structures, tropical mesoscale convective systems, ~25 field programs (GATE, TOGA COARE, CASES), and evaluation of WRF…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,256,000 "Method and System for Determining Cloud Seeding Potential", issued 2022-02-22; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Xue, Lulin; Rasmussen, Roy; Tessendorf, Sarah (RAL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
MTP, a wing-mounted scanning microwave radiometer that measures oxygen thermal emission at 56–59 GHz at 10 viewing angles to retrieve temperature profiles above, below and at flight level, with in-flight reference-target calibration;…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
HAO's white-light K-coronameters at MLSO: Mark-III (1980–1999, linear-array scanning) and Mark-IV (from 1998, built with Rhodes College) with a liquid-crystal polarization modulator and CCD line array, producing polarization-brightness…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Global model on a variable-resolution hexagonal (honeycomb) mesh that allows storm-resolving resolution where needed and coarser resolution elsewhere; NSF NCAR leads the atmospheric component, with community partners on ocean, land-ice and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
APAR: an airborne C-band dual-polarization phased-array radar in development at NCAR, with four removable AESAs on the NSF/NCAR C-130 providing dual-Doppler, rapid-scan and digital-beamforming observations of storm kinematics and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Data Assimilation Research Testbed: an open-source community facility for ensemble data assimilation supporting most NSF NCAR community models and many observation types, developed by CISL's Data Assimilation Research Section (DAReS).
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
GPU-resident, parallelized large-eddy simulation (LES) model from NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory for accelerated, turbulence-resolving modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer, aimed at microscale and multiscale weather…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers: interactive 3D visualization with animations, a progressive-access data model (VDC) for terascale data on commodity hardware, direct import of WRF, MOM, POP,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Python package of 30+ diagnostic calculations, interpolation routines and plotting utilities (cartopy, basemap, PyNGL) for WRF-ARW model output, similar in function to the NCL WRF package; installable from conda-forge.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Global surface and upper-air reports collected operationally by NCEP (land and marine surface, radiosonde, pibal, aircraft, profiler and radar winds, satellite winds) after PREPBUFR processing and quality control for assimilation into NCEP…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
NCEP FNL (Final) operational global analyses on 1-degree grids, prepared every six hours from the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) with GTS observations, on the surface and 26 mandatory pressure levels; parameters include pressure,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Historical archive of NCEP Global Forecast System analysis and forecast grids on a 0.25-degree global grid, with 3-hourly steps to 240 h and 12-hourly steps to 384 h from four daily runs, since January 2015 (GRIB2, ~662 TB); a continuously…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR AI for Earth system science: shared AI tools for hybrid modeling, emulation and model evaluation, curated AI-ready datasets and computing, responsible-AI practice, and the CREDIT platform.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR atmospheric-chemistry research on urban air quality and wildfire smoke: field campaigns with airborne instruments (e.g., GOTHAAM), AI-enabled chemistry models, wildland-urban interface fire pollution and the proposed STRIVE…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR severe-weather research spanning observations, models and forecasting of tornadoes, hurricanes, hail and damaging winds, including experimental high-resolution tropical cyclone forecasts, the LOTOS sensor network and the ICECHIP…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR research on Sun–Earth connections: solar magnetic fields and storms and their impacts on GPS, satellites, communications and power grids, including the proposed COSMO observatory, chromosphere observations and AI for space-weather…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR water-cycle research and modeling for floods and droughts: snowpack measurement, streamflow and reservoir prediction, dam safety, the WRF-Hydro model, snow-sublimation field studies and months-ahead drought forecasts.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
NSF NCAR Lockheed EC-130Q Hercules research aircraft, in NSF service since 1992, carrying ~13,000 lb of payload with 8–9 h endurance below ~27,000 ft; suited to lower and middle troposphere and boundary-layer studies, with an in-flight…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
NSF NCAR High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER), a Gulfstream GV research aircraft carrying up to 5,600 lb of sensors from the surface to the stratosphere for university-driven field campaigns;…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,243,295 "Optical Filter", issued 2022-02-08; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Spuler, Scott; Repasky, Kevin; Nehrir, Amin (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the page.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
How internal divisions and external organizations engage EOL Design and Fabrication Services: a work statement and cost estimate approved by the EOL Director, written client approval, time-and-materials pricing (optionally capped), and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
PSPT, centerpiece of NSF's RISE program on solar radiative-output variability: a 15 cm refractor producing full-disk 2048x2048 images in blue and red continuum and Ca II K bands at 0.1% pixel-to-pixel photometric precision; NSO-built units…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Entry point for requesting NSF FARE-supported, NCAR-managed Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities (aircraft, airborne instruments, ground-based systems such as ISS, ISFS, MPD and S-Pol) through the NSF GEO Core solicitation and FARE…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Guide to the support the RAF Airborne Project Office provides for small aircraft projects (scheduling, user-equipment upload, lab and storage space at field sites) versus services requiring other EOL facilities such as the Project…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
S-band Dual Polarization Doppler Radar: a research-grade, transportable ground-based weather radar (2.7–2.9 GHz, 8.5 m antenna) for precipitation, microphysics and storm-structure studies at remote sites; ships in eight 20 ft containers…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
HAO's white-light coronagraph/polarimeter on NASA's Solar Maximum Mission (launched 1980) for studying the corona's relationship to solar flares; repaired in orbit by Shuttle mission STS-41C in 1984, it produced ~240,000 coronal images…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
EOL paid summer engineering internship for undergraduates at accredited U.S. institutions: interns help develop instrumentation for NSF/NCAR lower-atmosphere observing facilities, mentored by EOL engineers and technicians, with wage,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Historical tropical-cyclone database built from satellite and aircraft observations with objective state estimation, giving hourly track, intensity, size, radius of maximum winds and extended wind radii with time-dependent uncertainty;…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Campaign-customized web catalog supporting field-program decision making with real-time tracking, imagery, GIS overlays, mission tables, status and forecast reporting, and playback; catalogs remain online after campaigns for post-project…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Mesospheric and lower-thermospheric winds (80–105 km) observed by the limb-scanning TIDI instrument on NASA's TIMED satellite via the O2 (0-0) band near 750 nm, 2002–2021, in netCDF; published by NSF NCAR HAO.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
UHSAS optical aerosol spectrometer (DMT) measuring size-resolved aerosol concentration in 99 bins over ~55–1000 nm by light scattering; the rack (UHSAS-G) version is modified by RAF for in-flight pressure variation, and the wing (UHSAS-A)…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
UCoMP: a 20-cm Lyot coronagraph with a Stokes polarimeter and electro-optically tuned birefringent filter imaging intensity, polarization, Doppler shift and line width across visible and near-IR coronal emission lines (530–1083 nm); an…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR distinguished scholar and pioneer of atmospheric general circulation and coupled climate models (with ocean and sea ice), using the Parallel Climate Model and CESM to study 21st-century climate change; National Medal of Science…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
EOL reference overview (Vömel, 2025; DOI 10.26023/S2SX-K278) of the main saturation vapor pressure equations over liquid water and ice (e.g., Goff-Gratch, WMO/CIMO, Hyland-Wexler, Hardy, Buck, Sonntag, Magnus-Tetens, Bolton), with…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Mesoscale numerical weather prediction system for research and operations, with two dynamical cores and a data-assimilation system, spanning tens of meters to thousands of kilometers; extensions include WRF-Chem, WRF-Hydro, WRF-Fire,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Comprehensive numerical model from the surface to the thermosphere, runnable with active or specified land, ocean and ice; WACCM-X extends it to the upper thermosphere and ionosphere, bridging weather and climate to space weather.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
RAF post-flight plotting program (Mac, Linux) for displaying 2D images from PMS2D and other optical array probes, developed in the 1990s for quick-look data review.