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HPC System Maintenance Tuesday, July 14th

July 6, 2026

CISL will perform maintenance on Derecho, Globus, Quasar, and Open on Demand on Tuesday, July 14th. Derecho will be down for cooling system maintenance from 6am - 6pm MDT and will be returned to users after successful performance checkout. Globus and Quasar will both be temporarily unavailable throughout the maintenance window for software updates. The new Open on Demand service will be brie...

Read the article: Neighborhood-level wind forecasts are on the horizon

June 29, 2026

NSF NCAR researchers are leveraging the Derecho supercomputer to develop groundbreaking, neighborhood-scale wind forecasts down to a two-meter resolution. By pairing uncrewed aircraft observations with FastEddy—an advanced microscale model—scientists can simulate how real-time wind gusts and turbulence interact with local buildings and trees. This innovative use of computational resources deliv...

Join a seminar about storm-time ionosphere-thermosphere modeling

June 29, 2026

On Wednesday, July 8, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm MT, join the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) at NSF NCAR for a seminar. The talk is entitled "How Far Can Observation-Constrained Field-Aligned Currents Take Us? Insights into Storm-Time Ionosphere-Thermosphere Modeling." The speaker, Qingyu Zhu, is an assistant professor of physics at The University of Texas at Dallas and a former Advanced Study P...

Tuesday, June 30: “Introduction to GDEX” | GDEX Discovery Series

June 24, 2026

The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX) is NSF NCAR's high-performance platform for Earth System Science data sharing, discovery, and analysis. Want to learn more about GDEX, or ready to start using it? Don't miss “Introduction to GDEX,” the next session of the GDEX Discovery Series. Drop in online! Join the one-hour virtual workshop on Tuesday, June 30, at 11:00 am MST. View the event flyer onli...

CISL & RAL Seminar - Advancing integrated continental-scale hydrologic simulation and forecasting through democratized data and ML-accelerated modeling

June 22, 2026

Join us for this month's CISL Seminar, co-hosted with RAL Thu Jun 25, 2026 1pm - 2pm MDT. The seminar will be hybrid at the Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room or you may join virtually via the public livestream. Title: Advancing integrated continental-scale hydrologic simulation and forecasting through democratized data and ML-accelerated modeling Speaker: Reed Maxwell, Princeton University There wi...

Responsible Gen-AI for NASA Earthdata 2026

June 22, 2026

Join for a week of hands-on learning of best practices for using generative Artificial Intelligence (gen AI) for NASA Earth data production and services. The event will be held August 24-28th in Seattle, WA. Who should apply? • Open to faculty, students, research staff, agency data software/systems engineers, data security/IT governance specialists, and industry partners working on advancing ...