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Read the article: “The simple formula that describes wind speeds”
May 7, 2025

Leveraging NSF NCAR supercomputing, Johns Hopkins researchers have crafted a simple yet powerful formula modeling lower atmospheric winds. This innovative work, which utilized the Cheyenne supercomputer, condenses complex data into a user-friendly model of wind velocity at various heights. This work offers significant benefits for climate science and renewable energy.  In a new CISL News articl...

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Join a virtual Town Hall on cyberinfrastructure developments at NSF NCAR
May 7, 2025

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, from 9:00 to 10:00 am MT, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) will host a virtual Town Hall presented by NSF NCAR, entitled "NSF NCAR’s Advanced Computing, Data Services, Software and Educational Resources for Earth System Science." This webinar will highlight exciting new developments in the cyberinfrastructure at NSF NCAR, which supports Earth system science...

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Project Pythia releases new cookbook for the Digital Earths Hackathon
May 7, 2025

The Pythia team has released a new cookbook, the HEALPix Cookbook, for the WCRP Digital Earths Global Hackathon. This resource introduces the Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelation of the Earth and guides you through using easy.gems and UXarray for data analysis and visualization on HEALPix datasets.  Driven by the hackathon, this accessible cookbook offers reproducible workflows, run...

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Slides and recordings now available from this year’s ISS conference
May 5, 2025

From April 7 to 10, 2025, software engineers, scientists, and developers came together in Boulder and online for ISS25, the Improving Scientific Software conference. The presentation slides and recordings are now available from within the online conference program. Organizers would like to thank the participants and organizers who made the 2025 ISS Conference possible, and hope to see new and...

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On May 9, see supercomputing up close in an on-site NWSC tour (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
May 5, 2025

In honor of the 75th anniversary of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) will host two special tours of its world-class data center.  The tours will last approximately one hour and are scheduled for Friday, May 9 at 9:00 am and 1:00 pm MT. The location is the NSF NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, 8120 Veta Drive, Cheyenne, WY.  The gene...

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NHUG Slack Workspace Renaming to NCAR Compute and Data Commons
April 28, 2025

On April 30, 2025, the NHUG Slack workspace will be renamed to NCAR Compute and Data Commons (NCDC). This rename is part of an effort to unify several related Slack or Zulip workspaces (such as ESDS), facilitating better collaboration, community interaction, and easier access to resources across NCAR’s computing and data-focused communities. All existing NHUG channels will remain the same, exc...

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