This report details key events, research, and projects within NCAR during the year of 2008. Descriptions of these events fall into five distinct themes: Regional Climate Change, Science at the Terascale and Beyond, Empowering Society to Cope with Weather and Climate, Technology: Bringing Innovati... Show moreThis report details key events, research, and projects within NCAR during the year of 2008. Descriptions of these events fall into five distinct themes: Regional Climate Change, Science at the Terascale and Beyond, Empowering Society to Cope with Weather and Climate, Technology: Bringing Innovation to the Fore, and Energizing Science with the Community Climate System Model. The report also contains a message from the director of NCAR and a heading for Metrics, which contains quantitative statistics about NCAR's achievements in the past year. Links to the annual reports of NCAR's labs and programs are also available through this website. Items in this report detail the research and projects completed by NCAR's labs and scientists. Articles located in the report focus largely on research surrounding climate research, modeling different research topics, and weather patterns and events. Additional emphasis is placed on the use of technology and computing in data processing. Show less
