On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse passed over a swath of the U.S., darkening skies from Texas to Maine. Thirty-six community scientist teams along with four professional science teams assembled across the path of totality, not just to view the celestial wonder, but also to collect data about the Sun’s upper atmosphere, or corona. On the evening of April 23, a little over a year after this scientific effort, a documentary about it will debut at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) Mesa Lab in Boulder. 

In order to make communities less vulnerable, structures must be built with extreme weather events in mind. Researchers at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) are collaborating with SUNY Polytechnic Institute to do just that by updating structural design standards on icing conditions.

NSF NCAR scientists have developed a suite of high-technology tools that give military leaders vital intelligence about weather and climate conditions.

The Weather Company has become the first operational user of JEDI, a groundbreaking software tool developed at the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation.

Research quantifies the health risks of wildland-urban interface fires, showing fire emissions in populated areas are three times more likely to lead to annual premature deaths than emissions from wildfires in general.