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Reminder: Acknowledge NSF NCAR and CISL support in your publications

June 30, 2025

Acknowledge the support of NSF NCAR and CISL computing when you publish your research results—this helps ensure continued support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and other sources of funding for future high-performance computing systems. It is also one of the requirements of receiving an allocation, as was noted in your award letter. The reporting requirements and recommended wordin...

Register by 7/20 for the Pythia Cook-off hackathon in August

June 30, 2025

Don’t miss your chance to join the 2025 Pythia Cook-off, an in-person hackathon focused on developing Pythia Cookbooks. The event runs from Tuesday, August 5, to Friday, August 8, at the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO. This is a fantastic chance to sharpen your Python programming, communication, collaboration, and educational skills while contributing to valuable open-source resources for t...

Time-sensitive for July 9: Change to dataset identifiers for HPC/Casper users of the CISL Research Data Archive

June 26, 2025 Updated: June 27, 2025

CISL plans to remove the legacy dataset identifiers from Research Data Archive (https://rda.ucar.edu) directory paths on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Users who have data analysis codes that point to directories which use the structure /glade/campaign/collections/rda/data/ds<NNN.X> should update their codes to use the new dataset identifier scheme, /glade/campaign/collections/rda/data/d<NNN>00<X>...

You’re invited to share your thoughts to improve the Research Data Archive (RDA)!

June 23, 2025 Updated: June 24, 2025

NSF NCAR's Research Data Archive (RDA) is seeking input from the community. As part of its "Pivot to an Integrated Research Data Commons" initiative, the RDA team aims to understand how to better support users in accessing and utilizing their data. Input is requested via a brief, two-minute survey. The survey is designed to gather thoughts on data and how to enhance the RDA, and participation i...

Join a “plane and simple” seminar about using aircraft signals to measure humidity—refreshments served!

June 24, 2025

On Thursday, June 26, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm MT, join NSF NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) laboratory for a seminar entitled "Measuring Humidity? It’s Plane and Simple!" The speaker, Dr. Ollie Lewis, will explore the use of interferometry to measure atmospheric refraction of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) radio transmissions from commercial aircraft. This ...

Register now for the August hackathon: Pythia Cook-off in Boulder, CO

June 24, 2025

This summer, join a fully in-person hackathon dedicated to the development of Pythia Cookbooks! Running from Tuesday, August 5 to Friday, August 8, the 2025 Pythia Cook-off will take place at the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO. The Cook-off offers participants a unique opportunity to enhance their Python programming, communication, collaboration, and educational skills, while contributing t...