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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Corporation_for_Atmospheric_Research
"Das NCAR wurde 1960 in einer Zusammenarbeit der National Science Foundation und der University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), einem Konsortium von rund 75 Universitäten aus dem Bereich der Atmosphärenwissenschaften, gegründet. Während die National Science Foundation dabei die Finanzierung übernahm, wird das Management von UCAR durchgeführt. 2010 waren am NCAR 1554 Menschen beschäftigt, rund die Hälfte davon Wissenschaftler, Ingenieure und Entwickler. Trotz der fast ausschließlichen Finanzierung aus Bundesmitteln sind die Angestellten jedoch keine Bundesangestellten.[2]"
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research

"The NCAR was founded in 1960 in a cooperation of the National Science Foundation and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a consortium of around 75 universities of the realm of the atmospheric sciences. While the National Science Foundation has adopted thereby the funding the UCAR is conducting the management. In 2010 there were 1554 persons occupied at the NCAR, around the half of them scientists, engineers and developers. Despite of the almost exclusive financing out of the federal budget the employees are no federal employees. [2]" (German Wikipedia, translated by Denglisch)

"The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) was designed by a small group of innovative scientists, most of them university faculty members, as a creative response to major challenge that faced the nation in the years between the 1930s and late 1950s. Departments of Meteorology had been established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, and other U.S. universities in the 1930s. Their goal was to investigate scientifically the physical principles that were thought to define the behavior of the atmosphere. Within a decade, military operations of World War II were unlike those of any previous wars-massive land, sea, and air assaults were highly dependent on weather conditions over vast regions from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the poles to the tropics.

University meteorology departments grew rapidly as the military services sent weather officers to learn the fundamentals of meteorology. These officers' assignments ranged from daily weather forecasting to strategic planning for vast military operations like the D-Day invasion in Normandy. The military services also supported meteorological research to improve understanding of weather and climate. Military pilots on long-range bombing missions discovered the fast-moving, high-altitude rivers of air that came to be known as jet streams, now recognized as key elements in the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere.

Despite the impressive training programs of the 1940s, the field of atmospheric science lost ground in the postwar years, becoming a sort of poor cousin to many other branches of science. Approximately 90% of American meteorologists in mid-century were employed by the federal government, mainly in weather forecasting rather than engaging in basic research on the fundamental problems posed by the atmosphere. The number of new people entering the field was woefully low. At the same time, meteorology boasted the smallest percentage of doctoral degrees of any scientific discipline.

In 1956, the National Academy of Sciences convened a committee of distinguished scientists to investigate the state of meteorology. Noting the size and complexity of atmospheric problems and the inadequate resources for solving them, the committee recommended an exponential increase in support for basic research. Coupled with new funding, the committee planned to establish a national institute (later called a national center) for atmospheric research to be operated by a consortium of universities with support from the National Science Foundation.

The mission of the institute would be to:

Attack the fundamental problems of the atmosphere on a scale commensurate with their global nature.
Aggregate the large-scale research facilities necessary for such an attack.
Provide a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach to these problems on a scale not possible in individual university departments.
Preserve the natural alliance between research and education, without unbalancing university departments.
In 1960, NCAR began operations in Boulder, Colorado, as a program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). At the time it funded the creation of NCAR, NSF itself had been in existence only ten years.

Today, NCAR provides the university research and teaching community with tools such as aircraft and radar to observe the atmosphere and with the technology and assistance to interpret and use these observations, including supercomputer access, computer models, and user support. NCAR and university scientists work together on research topics in atmospheric chemistry, climate, cloud physics and storms, weather hazards to aviation, and interactions between the sun and earth. In all of these areas, scientists are looking closely at the role of humans in both creating climate change and responding to severe weather occurrences.

For information on the UCAR mission statement click here - http://www2.ucar.edu/about-us/history "
http://ncar.ucar.edu/about-ncar

NCAR Mission Statement
"To understand the behavior of the atmosphere and related physical, biological, and social systems

To support, enhance, and extend the capabilities of the university community and the broader scientific community, nationally and internationally

To foster the transfer of knowledge and technology for the betterment of life on Earth

For information on the UCAR mission statement click here - http://www.ucar.edu/ucar/mission.html "
http://ncar.ucar.edu/about-ncar
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