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Read the article: How CIRRUS user examples are inspiring Earth system scientists to host their own projects on CIRRUS
February 2, 2026

NSF NCAR's groundbreaking cloud platform, CIRRUS, now has a dedicated User Applications page. This new page features real-world examples that illustrate the many advantages of CIRRUS and showcase how Earth system scientists, both within and outside the NSF NCAR community, are successfully utilizing the platform. CIRRUS is designed to let researchers concentrate completely on their science by e...

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Join a seminar on rain microphysics—refreshments served for in-person guests
February 2, 2026

On Tuesday, February 10, at 3:30 pm MT, join NSF NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) for a seminar entitled “A Variational Framework for Estimating Rain Microphysics from Dual-Pol Radar Observations.” The speaker will be Nicholas Barron of Aeolus Labs. This seminar introduces a new variational framework that uses dual-pol radar to infer "unmeasurable" storm thermodynamics. By coupling S-POL...

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Join the April Chameleon user meeting in Boulder; proposals due Fri. 2/13
February 2, 2026

Chameleon Cloud, in collaboration with project partner NSF NCAR, is hosting its sixth user meeting at the Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO, from Wednesday, April 15 to Thursday, April 16. Chameleon is an NSF-funded national research resource providing free access to GPUs, edge devices, and cloud infrastructure for computer science research, education, and emergent applications. CS researchers, educators...

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