National Center for Atmospheric Research
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| Director | James W. Hurrell |
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| Location | Boulder, Colorado 39°58′41″N 105°16′30″W / 39.97815°N 105.27492°WCoordinates: 39°58′41″N 105°16′30″W / 39.97815°N 105.27492°W |
| Website | ncar |
The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, /ˈɛnkɑːr/) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NCAR has multiple facilities, including the I. M. Pei-designed Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. Studies include meteorology, climate science, atmospheric chemistry, solar-terrestrial interactions, environmental and societal impacts.
NCAR provides a broad array of tools and technologies to the scientific community for studying Earth’s atmosphere, including,
The center is staffed by scientists, engineers, technicians, and support personnel. Key research areas include
Notable scientists on the current staff at the center include Tom Wigley, Kevin Trenberth, and Caspar Ammann, and in past have included Paul Crutzen (Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1995); Paul Julian, who with colleague Roland Madden discovered the Madden–Julian oscillation; Stephen Schneider . Greg Holland initiated the multiscale modeling project "Predicting the Earth System Across Scales".
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