NCAR aircraft, ground instruments to track carbon dioxide uptake
BOULDER--The National Center for Atmospheric Research will fly a C-130 research aircraft over Colorado's Front Range this May and July to measure how much carbon dioxide mountain forests remove from the air as spring turns into summer. NCAR scientists and their university colleagues are developing new methods for assessing carbon uptake over complex terrain on regional scales. Accurate assessment...Prepare now for next El Nino, says UN/NCAR study
.BOULDER--Now is the time for vulnerable countries around the globe to.begin preparing for the next El Nino, according to a United Nations.(UN) preliminary report issued today. The report presents the results.of a 19-month study of 16 countries that examined what worked and.what didn't in national responses to the forecasts and impacts of the.1997-98 El Nino. Dubbed the "El Nino of the Century,"...NCAR scientists seek clues to wildfires during Alaska prescribed burn
...BOULDER--Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research...(NCAR) will fly over a prescribed blaze in the Alaskan forest this month...seeking clues to how violent and seemingly unpredictable forest fires...spread. Between July 8 and July 31, if conditions are right, a...multiagency team of researchers will observe the burn on 2,000 acres...approximately 25 miles northeast of Fair......BOULDER--How much do sulfate aerosols--a form of pollution--cool the...climate? That's one of the most pressing questions for understanding...global climate change. To help find the answer, the National Center for...Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has sent researchers, instruments, and a C-...130 research aircraft owned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...the $25-million Indian Ocean Ex...NCAR Team Tags 'Imported' Pollutants Over The Pacific Northwest
...BOULDER --...From 50% to 60% of sulfate-aerosol pollution over the Pacific...Northwest is coming from industrialized Asia, according to a model...developed by a team of researchers at the National Center for...Atmospheric Research (NCAR). While the total column of air contains..."imported" sulfate aerosols, near the surface most of the aerosols come...from North American sources. In contrast,...NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
...BOULDER--Some of the most important sampling to date of biospheric and ...atmospheric chemistry in the tropical rainforest will culminate in ...November and December, when a team of scientists from the United ...States, France, Italy, the Central African Republic (CAR), and the ...Congo complete a rare study of the African atmosphere. Ground-based ...and tower-mounted instruments and a resear...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
...BOULDER--Boston buried under ice? Idaho sun-dried into desert? No, this ...isn't Hollywood's latest foray into climate change. Benjamin Felzer, a ...climatologist and geologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research ...in Boulder, has used NCAR computer models of climate and vegetation to find ...which plant types our ancestors would have wandered among during the last ...glacial max...