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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL Seminar Series 🌎
🌊 Understanding and Modeling Climate-Water-Human Interactions
🌊 Dr. Peter Greve, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
🌊 Thursday, Dec 11, 2025 | 11-12 PM (MT) | Hybrid, Free
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🌊 Understanding and Modeling Climate-Water-Human Interactions 🌊 Dr. Peter Greve, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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🎉Congratulations to Curtis Walker on receiving the UCAR Outstanding Accomplishment in Mentoring Award! This award recognizes Dr. Walker’s exceptional, sustained commitment to developing the next generation of Earth-system scientists.👏Thank you for your remarkable commitment to others. Well deserved!
This award recognizes Dr. Walker’s exceptional, sustained commitment to developing the next generation of Earth-system scientists. Since 2020, Dr. Walker has mentored students and postdoctoral fellows from high school through early-career stages, offering technical expertise, career guidance, and steadfast encouragement that have shaped their professional trajectories. His mentees are now on their own successful career paths, leading research projects, proposals, and papers, and they carry forward his example of mentorship grounded in integrity and care.
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL/MMM Seminar Series 🌎
✈️Benchmarking MPAS-NoahMP for S2S Prediction: A Long-Term Assessment of Key Global Meteorological Pattern & Land-Atmosphere Interactions
✈️Zhe Zhang, NSF NCAR
✈️WED, Nov 12 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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RAL/MMM SEMINAR: Benchmarking MPAS-NoahMP for S2S Prediction: A Long-Term Assessment of Key Global Meteorological Pattern and Land-Atmosphere Interactions
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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✨ A BIG THANK YOU to our RAL Superhero Volunteers who helped make UCAR’s Super Science Saturday at the Mesa Lab a success! Over 1,400 visitors joined in celebrating! We’re proud to support this community event & grateful to all who help inspire the next generation of scientists and innovators. ✨
This year’s “Heroes Assemble!” theme featured our NSF NCAR RAL Wizards: Christina Kalb (“Bolt from the Blue”), Tracy Hertneky (“Gale Force”), and Jared Lee (“Waldo the Super-Hider”), along with volunteer Matt Wilson.
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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🌟 A huge THANK YOU RAL Advisory Panel members! 🌟
We had the pleasure of hosting our panel meeting, an energizing exchange of ideas & perspectives from leaders across the academic & operational sectors. We’re honored to have your expertise & continued collaboration. ral.ucar.edu/about/ral-ad...
RAL Advisory Panel 2025
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL Seminar Series 🌎
✈️ Energy Dissipation Rate Estimation From a Statistical Signal Processing Perspective
✈️ Larry Cornman, NSF NCAR RAL - National Center for Atmospheric Research
✈️ WED, Nov 5 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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Energy Dissipation Rate Estimation From a Statistical Signal Processing Perspective - Larry Cornman, NSF NCAR RAL - National Center for Atmospheric Research
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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🚀 Announcing FastEddy® 4.0! The latest release of this groundbreaking, open source GPU-based model. Extensions include explicit incorporation of models for buildings, wind turbine effects & more. Check it out! ral.ucar.edu/news/just-re...
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL Seminar Series 🌎
🌊 Climate Adaptation Case Study: Rising Seas Along the Jersey Shore
🌊 Susan Crawford, Harvard Law School & the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
🌊 TUES, Oct 21 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free Hybrid Event
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Sunset on Jersey Shore
October 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🎉Congrats to Scott Landolt, honored with the AMS Editor’s Award for Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology👏For exceptional dedication to providing thoughtful, high-quality reviews. 🥳Join us in celebrating Scott & all of this year's AMS Honorees! www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL Seminar Series 🌎
🌲 Examining the Influence of Heterogeneous Forest Canopy on Shallow Convection at the Third ARM Mobile Site
🌲 Dr. Lijie Zhang, Washington State University
🌲 WED, Sept 17 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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Examining the Influence of Heterogeneous Forest Canopy on Shallow Convection at the Third ARM Mobile Site, Dr. Lijie Zhang, Washington State University
September 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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☀️Spotlight on Extreme Heat - The NSF NCAR GIS Program recently hosted two events focused on Advancing Heat Resilience. 👏A huge thank you to our attendees, presenters, and partners for making these events a success!🤩 Details: gis.ucar.edu/news/spotlig... 🌐 More on NSF NCAR GIS Program: gis.ucar.edu
GIS Workshop: Exploring Extreme Heat Risks through Geospatial Storytelling. Participants pictured outside at the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab, which sits nestled against the foothills to the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado. Photos by First Sight Films GIS Workshop & Symposium Photos by First Sight Films GIS Workshop & Symposium Photos by First Sight Films GIS Workshop & Symposium Photos by First Sight Films
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL Seminar Series 🌎
📣 CLIMAAX: Empowering Local Action for Climate Adaptation in Europe
📣 Daniel Sempere-Torres, Director, Centre de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia (CRAHI)
📣 WED, AUG 27 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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CLIMAAX: Empowering Local Action for Climate Adaptation in Europe, Daniel Sempere-Torres, Director, Centre de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia (CRAHI)
August 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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📣 From Forecast to Action: Site-Specific Impact-Based Early Warnings – Lessons from Valencia 2024 & the GOBEYOND Project
📣 Daniel Sempere-Torres, Director CRAHI
📣 WED, AUG 20 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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From Forecast to Action: Site-Specific Impact-Based Early Warnings – Lessons from Valencia 2024 & the GOBEYOND Project, Daniel Sempere-Torres, Director CRAHI
August 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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🎯Developing an Improved Flood Prediction System with WRF-Hydro®💧Floods are dynamic, highly localized, & increasingly unpredictable. WRF-Hydro® is an advanced hydrologic prediction system, connecting weather, land, & water processes to deliver continuous predictions.💡➕ ral.ucar.edu/solutions/be...
Aerial view of flooding
August 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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🌽💧What is “corn sweat” and why does it matter to Midwest farmers? Learn more about this natural process, our research and its impact on the U.S. Corn Belt in this recent FarmWeekNow article: www.farmweeknow.com/general/corn... ➕ Full research article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
U.S. Corn Belt
August 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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🛩️"By its very nature, turbulence is so chaotic that you need a lot of computer power to throw at it before you can see what is actually happening. This observing strategy is a breakthrough for us." Bob Sharman, NSF NCAR RAL 💡 🧠 www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
➕ ral.ucar.edu/aap/turbulence
Turbulence is more than a midair nuisance—it affects safety, schedules, and costs. NSF NCAR RAL is helping make skies smoother with advanced turbulence research and forecasting tools.
August 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL Seminar Series 🌎
☀️ The Ever-Present and Growing Risk of Flash Drought in an Accelerating Hydroclimate – An Update
☀️ Jeffrey Basara, EEAS, UMASS Lowell
☀️ WED, AUG 6 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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The Ever-Present and Growing Risk of Flash Drought in an Accelerating Hydroclimate – An Update Jeffrey Basara, EEAS, UMASS Lowell
July 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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ICYMI: Poor air quality harms our health & economy 😷💰Each year, pollution causes millions of deaths & costs the US ~$150 billion. Our researchers are leading efforts to forecast air quality, assess impacts, & improve data with powerful community models💡⛅ Learn more: ral.ucar.edu/solutions/ai...
July 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL Seminar Series 🌎
☁️ Simulating Cloud-Aerosol-Turbulence Interactions in the Lab: Large-Eddy Simulations, Direct Numerical Simulations, & Machine Learning
☁️ Aaron Wang, PNNL
☁️ Wed, July 16 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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Simulating Cloud-Aerosol-Turbulence Interactions in the Lab: Large-Eddy Simulations, Direct Numerical Simulations, & Machine Learning ☁️ Aaron Wang, PNNL
July 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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⛅ Air pollution threatens our health & food supply. 😷 🌽
💡 NSF NCAR RAL scientists are leading efforts to forecast air quality, assess impacts, & improve emissions data with powerful community models. Learn more about our research & its direct benefits to society: ral.ucar.edu/solutions/be...
July 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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🔥 Ready, Set, Go - Without a Car? Integrating Wildfire and Behavioral Science in Evacuation Planning and Response
🔥 Tara Goddard, Texas A&M
🔥 MON, July 7 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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Ready, Set, Go - Without a Car? Integrating Wildfire and Behavioral Science in Evacuation Planning and Response Tara Goddard, Associate Professor, TAMU Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
June 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🎉 Congratulations Seungwon Baek! Our newest Halaby Graduate Student Fellow! PhD student at Kyungpook National University, he will spend three months with our Aviation Weather Research Program. We're proud to support the next generation of aviation weather innovators! ✈️🌦️ lnkd.in/g5gmHCny
Seungwon Baek, 2025 Halaby Graduate Student Fellow
June 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🔥 Innovations in Fire Modeling: Fluid Dynamics, Data, and Computational Advances
🔥 Bryan Quaife, Florida State University
🔥 Thursday, June 26 | 2-3 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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Innovations in Fire Modeling: Fluid Dynamics, Data, and Computational Advances - Bryan Quaife, Florida State University
June 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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⛈️ Successes & Challenges in Storm Prediction Integrating Physics-Based Models With AI/ML
⛈️ Marina Astitha, UConn, NSF NCAR RAL
⛈️ WED, June 18 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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Successes & Challenges in Storm Prediction Integrating Physics-Based Models With AI/ML Marina Astitha, UConn, NSF NCAR RAL
June 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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🌎 Explore, Learn, Connect - RAL Seminar Series 🌎
🌋 Impact of Stratospheric Injections From Volcanoes and Geoengineering: Pinatubo vs Hunga Eruption
🌋 Georgiy Stenchikov, KAUST
🌋 Mon, June 9 | 1-2 PM (MT) | Free hybrid event
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Impact of Stratospheric Injections From Volcanoes and Geoengineering: Pinatubo vs Hunga Eruption Georgiy Stenchikov, KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
June 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM