NOAA, UCAR renew, expand partnership to advance extreme weather research
Rick Spinrad, NOAA administrator (left), and Everette Joseph, Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (right), hold an expanded Memorandum of Understanding on December 10, 2024. Credit: NOAA
NOAA and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)offsite link acting on behalf of the National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR)offsite link signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) earlier this week to renew and expand a collaborative partnership between the two organizations. The MOU is designed to facilitate sharing research, tools and data by enabling scientists to more productively conduct research with each other.
NSF NCAR, which is a federally funded research and development center, provides the atmospheric and related Earth system science community with state-of-the-art resources. These resources include supercomputers, research aircraft, sophisticated computer models and extensive data sets.
“This agreement furthers our mutual mission that focuses on science that helps the nation be better prepared for extreme weather,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “Prioritizing areas of cooperative research and continuing to build on strong relationships enables our scientists to more effectively advance weather, water and climate knowledge.”