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Needs, Opportunities and Strategies for a Long-term Oceanic Sciences Satellit...
This document conveys the recommendations of the NOSS Science Working Group charged with three tasks: first, to recommend sensor modifications and additions to fill the 25 % of... -
Calibration of the NCAR Sabreliner Research Static Pressure Source With a Tra...
Trailing cone results verify that pressure corrections for the NCAR Sabreliner derived from tower flyby data can be extrapolated to higher Mach numbers and higher altitudes with... -
Statistical Analysis of Compressed Climate Data
[Note: this Technical Note was updated on 2020-08-17 per the authors' request to correct an error. See the description of the change on page two of the document's front matter.]... -
Incorporating MAGMA into the 'fields' spatial statistics package
In this report we describe how to incorporate the Cholesky decomposition from the Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures (MAGMA) library into some of the calculations... -
A Comparison of Shape Preserving Interpolators
This report provides a survey of a number of the currently accepted methods of shape preserving interpolation that have appeared in literature. In addition, the report presents... -
Confidence Intervals for Forecast Verification
The manuscript is an attempt to present in a single document the various types of confidence intervals, their assumptions, and other issues as they pertain to forecast... -
How long is long enough when measuring fluxes and other turbulence statistics?
We determine how long a time series must be to estimate covariances and moments up to fourth order with a specified statistical significance. For a given averaging time T there... -
MesoVICT: Mesoscale Verification Inter-Comparison over Complex Terrain
The spatial forecast methods intercomparison project (ICP, http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/icp) was formed in 2007 with the aim of better understanding the rapidly increasing... -
EZPLOT, for Publication-quality Plots
EZPLOT is built as a software interface between the user and NCAR graphics. While EZPLOT uses the NCAR graphics package, the interface eliminates the need to compile programs to... -
The NCAR GKS-compatible Graphics System
This document offers a brief overview of the NCAR GKS-compatible Graphics Package. It describes the package contents (code and documentation) and how to use it. GKS formalizes... -
The Hailpad: Construction and Materials, Data Reduction, and Calibration
This paper examines in detail the materials from which hailpads are constructed, the procedures for reducing hailpad data, and the methods used to calibrate these instruments. A... -
The SCD Graphics Utilities
This manual documents the Graphics Utilities used by the Scientific Computing Division (SCD) at NCAR. The utilities are listed alphabetically by utility name. -
Instructor's Handbook on Meteorological Instrumentation
This Instructor's Handbook is the result of an NCAR-sponsored summer colloquium whose purpose is provided useful material to assist instructors in teaching meteorological... -
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2019
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... -
A Spectral Vegetation Radiometer for Airborne Boundary-layer Research
This document presents a comprehensive description of the Spectral Vegetation Radiometer (SVR) used on NCAR aircraft to derive information about the vegetation cover.... -
Boundary Layer Profile Measurement System Engineering Report
The NCAR Field Observing Facility developed a new tethered-balloon wing system, known as the Meteorological Atmospheric Testing (MAT) Wing, which takes meteorological... -
CCM Processor Users' Guide (UNICOS Version)
This document is a complete description of the capabilities of the CCM Processor, including all of the information needed to run the code on the Crays at NCAR. A few aspects of... -
NCAR Graphics User's Guide: Version 2.00
This manual is a reference guide for users of the NCAR Graphics package. The manual is for use by two audiences: people who have never used a previous NCAR graphics package, and... -
Data ingest and objective analysis for the PSU/NCAR modeling system: Programs...
Report discusses in detail the auxiliary programs DATAGRID and RAWINS, and intends to update previous documentation for these two programs (Haagenson, 1987; Seaman and... -
Preprocessing of Airborne Pyranometer Data
Eppley pyranometers are employed to measure the up- and downwelling short wavelength radiation fluxes in the atmosphere. The quality of the data used to investigate the...
