1. Walter Orr Robertsand the Climax coronagraph

    NCAR public talks celebrate 50 years of scientific discovery

    The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is partnering with the Boulder Public Library to present a series of public talks and a new exhibit to mark the research organization's 50th anniversary this year.

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  2. Circumzenithal arc

    Incredible optics on a winter afternoon

    Have you ever looked up in the sky and seen something totally surprising?

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  3. UCAR Magazine

    Snow depth and density revisited

    Margaret "Peggy" LeMone takes another stab at the challenge of showing that snow depth decreases at least in part because the snow “settles” and increases in density.

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  4. A side-by-side composite photo of a white truck and a dark truck.

    Are darker-colored cars warmer inside than lighter-colored cars?

    When our family bought our last car, we debated about the color, wondering if a white car would be cooler on our summer road trips across the American West than a darker-colored car. We ended up purchasing the white car. But was it for the right reason?

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  5. Students catch a glimpse of the University of Wyoming King Air in flight

    Today's assignment: plan a field project

    Eleven days can go by in no time, but their brevity was accentuated for 27 graduate students at a summer colloquium on 1–12 June. The goal was to give students a taste of fieldwork by having them organize and conduct mini–field experiments and draw meaningful results from the data.

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