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NeurIPS 2025 - Free Livestream “Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning” Workshop

December 4, 2025

This week Dec 2nd through 7th is the NeurIPS 2025 conference, a premier academic gathering for the AI community. This year, with support of the Climate Change AI organization, the workshop “Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning” will offer a free livestream, intended to be publicly available directly on the workshop webpage. The workshop takes place Sun December 7th 9am to 6pm MST. The...

Reduced Support During the Thanksgiving Holiday – Expect Slower Response Times

November 26, 2025

NSF NCAR and UCAR will observe the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday and Friday, November 26–27. During this time, the Help Desk and User Support Services will be closed. We will continue to monitor HPC system operations to ensure the protection of property and data; however, any service disruptions will be evaluated and triaged as appropriate so that staff may observe the holiday. Normal opera...

Attend a colloquium about cloud droplet spectra broadening — refreshments served for in-person guests!

November 24, 2025

On Thursday, December 11, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm MT, join the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory (MMM) at NSF NCAR for a seminar with Dr. Wojciech W. Grabowski. The talk is entitled: “Broadening of adiabatic droplet spectra through eddy hopping: Polluted versus pristine environments.” The observed widths of cloud droplet spectra in natural clouds have long been a puzzle, as they ...

Participate in a talk about AI-enhanced solar wind forecasting

November 24, 2025

On Wednesday, December 10, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm MT, join the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) at NSF NCAR for a colloquium entitled: “Neural Enhancement of the Traditional WSA Solar Wind Relation.” The presenter is Dr. Prateek Mayank, a NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow with CPAESS at UCAR and SWx TREC at CU-Boulder. The colloquium will introduce WSA+, a neural enhancement to the Wang–Sheel...

Join a seminar about propagating convection over New Guinea — refreshments served for in-person guests!

November 24, 2025

On Thursday, December 4, from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm MT, join the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory (MMM) at NSF NCAR for a seminar with Dr. Mingyue Tang from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. The talk is entitled: “Cold Pools, Breezes, and Monsoons: Propagating Convection over New Guinea.” Dr. Tang's research highlights the critical role of multi-scale density currents and hybrid ...

Reminder: Two in-person CISL Town Halls coming up — at AGU in December and AMS in January!

November 24, 2025

NSF NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Lab (CISL) invites you to two upcoming in-person Town Halls. The AGU Town Hall will take place on Thursday, December 18, and the AMS Town Hall on Wednesday, January 28. Learn more about the two on-site annual meetings here: AGU 25 and AMS 26. Join CISL at the conventions to learn about our strategic roadmap for integrating Artificial Intellige...