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10 unusual facts about National Center for Atmospheric Research


C. S. Kiang

Trained in Physics at National Taiwan University and Georgia Institute of Technology, after four years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Dr. Kiang returned to Georgia Tech in 1978 to develop the Atmospheric Sciences program within the School of Geophysical Sciences and then served as Director of the School from 1981 to 1988.

Edward Martell

Edward A. Martell (1920? – July 12, 1995) was an American radiochemist for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.

Eli Kintisch

He has been invited to speak at Columbia University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and among many others.

Gerald North

He spent 1974–75 as a Senior Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Notable scientists on the staff at the center include Tom Wigley, Kevin Trenberth, and Caspar Ammann.

Robert Henson

In 1989 Henson joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and its parent organization, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

Ron Przybylinski

Przybylinski has actively trained meteorologists, for example, participating heavily in the National Center for Atmospheric Research COMET training (particularly on bow echoes), as well as mentoring and collaborating with university students, both graduate and undergraduate.

Undulatus asperatus

Margaret LeMone, a cloud expert with the National Center for Atmospheric Research has taken photos of asperatus clouds for 30 years, and considers it a likely new cloud type.

Vance Faber

He spent parts of 3 years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder on a NASA postdoctoral fellowship where he wrote a second thesis on the numerical solution of the Shallow Water Equations under the direction of numerical analyst Paul Swarztrauber.

Will Steffen

He was also on an advisory panel in Colorado with the National Center for Atmospheric Research.


Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute

The institute conducts projects and partnerships with the National Weather Center, the University of New Hampshire, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Mount Washington Observatory, the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and many other agencies.