National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) News

U.S. Launches ‘Biggest Ever Improvement’ in Flood Forecasting

U.S. government weather scientists and their research partners have developed a new forecasting tool to simulate how water moves throughout the nation’s rivers and streams, paving the way for what the federal agency calls “the biggest improvement in flood forecasting …

Scientists Develop Breakthrough Computer Forecasting Models for Wildfires

Scientists have developed a new computer modeling technique that offers the promise, for the first time, of producing continually updated daylong predictions of wildfire growth throughout the lifetime of long-lived blazes. The technique, devised by scientists at the National Center …