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Celebrate 20 years of super-droplets: Hybrid seminar and refreshments

March 5, 2025

On Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 2:00 PM MT, join NSF NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) department for a special seminar marking the twentieth anniversary of the revolutionary Super-Droplet Method (SDM). Dr. Shin-ichiro Shima of the University of Hyogo will present "Recent Advances and Applications of Lagrangian Particle-Based Cloud Models," reflecting on the SDM's journey from...

Join an EOL seminar on marine weather

March 5, 2025

On Tuesday, March 18th, from 2:30 to 3:30 PM MT, join the Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) seminar called "Shallow convection in marine cold-air outbreaks: boundary-layer processes, precipitation, and mesoscale organization. The University of Wyoming’s Dr. Bart Geerts will explore the complexities of shallow convection and its impact on marine environments. Attend in person or join the live we...

Read the story: Connecting weather and historical upheavals in SE Asia

March 5, 2025

Can weather shifts topple empires? A new study, powered by the computing and data resources at NSF NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL), explores the fascinating connection between historical climate shifts in Southeast Asia and the region’s sociopolitical upheavals. The study distinguishes between climate shifts caused by internal variability (e.g. natural fluctuation...

Did your CISL-powered research just get published? We want to hear from you!

February 28, 2025

Have you recently published a paper on research conducted using Derecho or Cheyenne? Then the CISL Communications Staff would like to showcase your work to the wider world. We are seeking recently-published Earth systems science research conducted using CISL’s computing resources. We’d like to spotlight this work for an upcoming series of informative, engaging science news stories to be publis...

Join a virtual seminar on wind energy, part of a monthly series

February 28, 2025

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, from 8:00 to 9:00 am MT, attend a virtual seminar on wind energy, entitled “Two Applications Using Low-Fidelity Models: Digital Twins and Uncertainty Propagation.” In this talk, Emmanuel Branlard, an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at UMass Amherst, will explore two applications of low-fidelity models: digital twinning and uncertainty propagation. B...

Important notice regarding RDA ERA5 Reanalysis GRIB files

February 26, 2025

The Data Engineering and Curation Section (DECS) of CISL is in the process of phasing out whole file download, subsetting, and campaign storage access to RDA ERA5 Reanalysis in GRIB format (d633000). If possible, we encourage users to transition to the NetCDF files produced by DECS for the RDA. For more details, including the NetCDF data inventory, please visit the ERA5 Reanalysis dataset websi...