Tag: The National Center For Atmospheric Research
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Colorado scientists use AI for improved wildfire forecasts
A new technique developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) uses artificial intelligence to efficiently update the vegetation maps used by wildfire computer models to more accurately predict fire behavior and spread. “One of our main challenges in wildfire modeling has been to get accurate input, including fuel data,” NCAR scientist and lead…
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Front Range ozone levels, Colorado Springs to Fort Collins, hit record highs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The reduction of harmful ground-level ozone across most of the U.S. over the past several decades has been an air pollution success story. But in some parts of the country, especially in the heavily populated…
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Famed Boulder climate scientist talks about why he split the U.S.
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who stepped down from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder last year said he did so because the Trump administration had slashed his budget proposals and dissuaded the mere…
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Summer of discontent: pandemic, record heat, fires, protests and racial reckoning
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This was weeks before the heat. May 28, a night of American unrest. Another tumultuous moment in this time of sickness and social and political reckoning. Apryl Alexander, a leader with Black Lives Matter 5280,…