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Dear Friends and Colleagues
I am pleased to introduce NCAR's 1997 Annual Scientific Report on the World Wide Web. This website contains descriptions of NCAR's research and facility development activities over the past fiscal year, including text, graphics, and access to some of our community facilities such as data sets and models. I encourage you to explore this report and follow the many links found here.
It is NCAR's mission to plan, organize, and conduct atmospheric and related research programs generally beyond the capability of single university research programs, to provide state-of-the-art research tools and facilities to the entire atmospheric sciences community, to support and enhance university atmospheric research education, and to facilitate the transfer of technology to both the public and private sectors. You will find activities supporting each of these areas throughout the document, and in every division and program.
In FY1997, NCAR's divisions and programs completed the development of long range strategic plans. These forward-looking documents provide blueprints of the scientific and technological emphases for the coming decade, and identify the opportunities for advancing our understanding of the Earth system. These plans were developed with the advice and assistance of a large number of NCAR senior scientific and technical staff within each division, and were reviewed by the entire senior management, scientific and technical staff at a one-day retreat held this past summer. Developed in response to the recommendations of the National Science Foundation's review of NCAR programs in 1996, these descriptions of NCAR's science and technology programs for the future provide the connections among NCAR's broad and diverse activities.
Taken together, the plans describe the extensive research goals of the national center for the coming decade. The plans are available on the web through the divisional links and I encourage you to read them in addition to this year's report.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Serafin
Director
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