March 19, 2019 - 4:00pmCOURTESY OF Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyBy Sarah A. Tessendorf | August 2, 2018
February 25, 2019 - 12:00pmRAL expert quoted in NIU articleCOURTESY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYBy Tom Parisi | February 13, 2019 PM
Northern Illinois University meteorology students are on cloud nine over a research project that will require the launch of as many as 40 weather balloons from campus to help gather data on the conditions that cause icing on aircraft.
Winter in the United States can produce some of the most dangerous weather for the aviation industry, including freezing rain, freezing drizzle, and sleet. Those are the ideal conditions for a field campaign focused on collecting in-flight data in some of the most treacherous North American icing conditions.
The program is led by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in partnership with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and other organizations, and will help improve weather models and forecasts for those who work in aviation.
October 24, 2018 - 11:45amScott made it to Antarctica November 5 with no weather delays. He'll be at McMurdo Station for five weeks; please follow him on his blog and wish him well at icechaser.blogspot.com
September 20, 2018 - 8:30amNCAR flooding experts quoted in FiveThirtyEight articleCOURTESY OF FIVETHIRTYEIGHTBy Maggie Koerth-Baker | September 17, 2018, 12:42 PM | Filed under Weather
With cities facing more extreme heat waves, scientists used NCAR-based WRF-Urban model to study which Chicago neighborhoods would benefit most from green roofs
Flooding caused by rain falling on snowpack could more than double by the end of this century in some areas of the western U.S. and Canada due to climate change.
Scientists set out to understand how much snow is feeding the Antarctic ice sheets and whether it is enough to offset the ice lost to the ocean.
A new analysis compares 22 recent hurricanes with their likely future selves at the end of this century.
May 15, 2018 - 9:45amImagine a wildfire is approaching a densely populated neighborhood. Emergency managers need to decide systematically and quickly on whether families should evacuate or stay put. These first responders need accurate information at both the mesoscale (the region’s weather) and microscale (the weather close to the terrain) levels, to make a timely determination.
