Research Serving Society

A driving National Science Foundation and NCAR mission is for society to benefit from the science community’s research efforts. Among the featured stories for 2011 is a look at new insights on the solar cycle, an update on climate and weather model capabilities that allow scientists to more easily model across varying scales of interest, finding the "missing energy" in the global energy budget, an exploration of chemical weather issues affecting society and ways of managing these issues through science, as well as an introduction to a several new NCAR leaders.