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Global Distribution of Total Cloud Cover and Cloud Type Amounts Over Land
This is the third of a series of atlases to result from a study of the global cloud climatology from ground-based observations. The first two atlases (NCAR/TN-201+STR and...- publication PDF
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Case Studies on Convective Storms / Case Study 4, 27 July 1976: First Echo Case
On 27 July 1976, a relatively small, weak storm was investigated by the NCAR/NOAA instrumented sailplane in coordination with NCAR Queen Air 306D. The potential instability was...- publication PDF
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A Description of Coupled General Circulation Models of the Atmosphere and Oce...
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Land use in the integrated Population-Economy-Technology-Science (iPETS) mode...
Land use and land cover change play an important role in the climate change issue both as a driver of climate change and as a component of response options including mitigation...- publication PDF
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National Hail Research Experiment Data Catalog (1972-1976)
This document constitutes a portion of the final report to the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE). The purpose of the material...- publication PDF
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Temperature Control of Balloon Packages
The following report is a general guide of thermal packaging for ballooning. Since the electronics and battery power supply of the Interrogation Recording and Location Subsystem...- publication PDF
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Method for Object-Based Diagnostic Evaluation
This technical note discusses the Method for Object-Based Diagnostic Evaluation (MODE), which is part of the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) verification software package. MODE is...- publication PDF
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A Polarization Calibration Technique for the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter
This document presents an efficient method for determination of the polarimeter response function of the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter (ASP). ASP has a linear polarizer which can...- publication PDF
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Catalogue of Meteorological Data Obtained During the Line Islands Experiment ...
The Line Islands Experiment, February-April 1967, was designed to provide comprehensive meteorological data in the oceanic part of the Equatorial Trough Zone. This document is a...- publication PDF
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Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2018
Climate informatics is an emerging research area that combines the fields of climate science and data science (specifically machine learning, data mining and statistics) to...- publication PDF
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Internal Storm Motions From a Single Non-Doppler Weather Radar
A correlation analysis pattern recognition technique called TREC (for tracking radar echoes by correlation) is developed which is capable of determining motions within storms....- publication PDF
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The Annual Cycle Part I: The Annual Variation of Surface Temperature Over the...
Daily maximum and minimum surface temperatures for 354 second-order U.S. and Canadian stations generally spanning 40-80 years are used to calculate the following quantities for...- publication PDF
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An Evaluation of the Rosemount Ice Detector for Aircraft Hazard Warning and f...
This report presents an evaluation of the Rosemount 871 ice detector for use as an aircraft hazard instrument and for determining liquid undercooled water content. Ice detector...- publication PDF
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The Feasibility of Long Duration Ballooning in Antarctica
This report outlines a plan for balloon operations in Antarctica as requested by Mr. Gordon Newkirk of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It includes discussions of...- publication PDF
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An Atlas of Variations in the Solar Constant Caused by Sunspot Blocking and F...
The purpose of this atlas is to present such a reconstruction for a period of slightly more than a century, for the use of atmospheric and solar physicists for whom a...- publication PDF
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Airflow and Hail Growth in Supercell Storms and Some Implications for Hail Su...
This paper presents evidence that the competing embryo concept is not valid for what we have termed the archetypal supercell. Multiple radar and aircraft observations of a...- publication PDF
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Ballooning Support for Cosmic-Ray Experiments: Joint United States - India In...
NCAR organized and provided program management for a balloon expedition to study cosmic rays in the vicinity of the equator during the International Quiet Sun Year (IQSY). The...- publication PDF
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Digitized Global Monthly Mean Ocean Surface Temperatures
Monthly means of the global sea surface temperature have been produced in the form of composite charts for use with the NCAR general circulation model. These monthly charts are...- publication PDF
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Digital Control of Meteorological Systems
The state-variable matrix approach of modern control theory is applied to a multi-input, multi-output meteorological network. The problem of providing suitable controllers to...- publication PDF
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Estimation of Spatial Covariances From the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment
The Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE) was an attempt to observe mesoscale ocean eddies in the western North Atlantic, primarily during the spring of 1973. A variety of...- publication PDF