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AUGUST 2022

Dear UCAR Community,

This month I have some exciting news to share with you. UCAR will become the home for the programs run by the Consortium of Ocean Leadership (COL), which is set to dissolve at the end of September. I believe this transition marks an historic partnership between the oceanic and atmospheric science community and will help researchers advance the study of Earth as an interconnected system. The programs will be housed in a new Center for Ocean Leadership, which will reside within the existing UCAR Community Programs.

As the first oceanographer to serve as president of UCAR, I am personally and professionally committed to maintaining the legacy of COL and growing it in ways that will continue to support the ocean science community.

While there are many details still to work out, I am confident that this effort will result in progress toward the goal of undertaking Earth system science to address many of society’s most pressing environmental challenges. The ocean plays a critical role in our climate and our weather, and we cannot adequately make progress in addressing issues related to either without fully considering their interconnections with the ocean. Our Center for Ocean Leadership will enable synergies among NCAR, our other community programs, and all of you in the broader Earth system science community that will ultimately benefit us all.

Sincerely,
Antonio Busalacchi
UCAR President

NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES

SCHEDULE SET FOR LARGE-SCALE UNIVERSITY HPC ALLOCATION REQUESTS

The next university deadline for submitting Large Allocation Requests is September 12, 2022. Allocations on our new Derecho supercomputer can be requested in the spring of 2023.

University use of the NCAR HPC environment is intended to support Earth system science and related research by researchers at U.S. institutions. The emphasis is on projects that may be beyond the scope of a researcher’s local university computing capabilities. Eligible researchers and activities incur no costs for the use of NCAR resources.

IDEAS LAB WILL GENERATE STRATEGIES TO MITIGATE IMPACTS OF SPACE WEATHER

KnowInnovation, supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and NOAA, is hosting a Geomagnetically Induced Currents and Power Systems Innovation Lab to generate creative strategies and new research collaborations aimed at improving understanding of geomagnetically induced currents and their impact on human infrastructure.

The 5-day in-person Ideas Lab will take place November 14-18, 2022 at the Table Mountain Inn in Golden, Colorado. Applications are due September 9 by 5 p.m. ET.

UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS

Many of our community events are hosted by the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science, or CPAESS. To learn how CPAESS can support your event, visit cpaess.ucar.edu.

2022 National Soil Moisture Workshop
August 9-10, 2022
Columbus, OH

Southeast Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) Partners Dialogue
August 9-10, 2022
Atlanta, GA

2022 Model Hierarchies Workshop
August 29-September 1, 2022
Stanford University, CA

2nd National Workshop on Marine eDNA
September 12-13, 2022
Costa Mesa, CA

2022 Second North American Workshop on hail & Hailstorms Workshop
September 20-22, 2022
Boulder, CO

NCAR | UCAR SCIENCE NEWS

WATER RESOURCES TO BECOME LESS PREDICTABLE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

Water resources will fluctuate increasingly and become more and more difficult to predict in snow-dominated regions across the Northern Hemisphere by later this century, according to a comprehensive new climate change study led by NCAR.

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RESEARCH AIRCRAFT TO INVESTIGATE MONSOON-CLIMATE CONNECTIONS

The Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and CLimate Impact Project (ACCLIP) will allow a team of international scientists to study how the Asian summer monsoon — one of the largest and most important meteorological patterns in the world — affects atmospheric chemistry and global climate.

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DID YOU KNOW?

NEW INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEM DATA ASSIMILATION CAPABILITY NOW AVAILABLE

The Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) has announced the release of JEDI SkyLab 1.0. The Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI) SkyLab provides the community with the first integrated Earth System Data Assimilation capability, via a unified end-to-end system that includes a single code build, workflow, data store, and diagnostics dashboard. Initial capabilities are demonstrated for multiple components of the Earth System: atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice, soil moisture, snow, and aerosols.

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