Tools, Technology, Facilities & Support

The HINODE Observation Satellite

The HINODE satellite carries three different telescopes on-board: The Solar Optical Telescope, the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (EIS), and the X-Ray Telescope (XRT).

High Altitude Observatory page

Article in UCAR Quarterly.

Tools & Facilities Links

Research Expeditions

Deploying world-wide tools expeditions to gain valuable observational data.

Models

Computer models of Earth system processes

High-Performance Computing/Cyberinfrastructure

The computers, mass storage and programming to create complex earth system models.

IMAGe (Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences)

IMAGe brings mathematical models and tools to bear on fundamental problems in the geosciences, for the research community.

Facilities & Instrumentation

Resources for scientists including instruments, observing facilities, and supercomputers

Data Sets

Scientific data from our organization and other participating institutions

Technology Transfer

Ways we disseminate knowledge and technology through commercial efforts

About NCAR Technologies

Using advanced technology developed at NCAR, scientists are able to conduct research and build community models that improve our understanding of the atmosphere, the Earth system, and the Sun. With these tools, NCAR provides national and regional decision-makers with the most advanced science in weather and climate modeling.

Across UCAR

COSMIC Ground Based GPS for Meteorology Collaborative effort between the US and Taiwan to build a microsat satellite constellation to sound the atmosphere using the radio occultation method.
UNIDATA Providing data, tools, and community leadership for enhanced Earth-system education and research.