Table of Contents

Goal 1: Improve Understanding of the atmosphere, the Earth system and the Sun    [Link]

Priority 1: Exploring Atmospheric, Earth System, and Solar Processes, Variability and Change

• Landmark Paper on the "Missing" Carbon Sink
• The Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport (START) experiment 08

Priority 2: Investigating the Interactions of the Atmosphere, the Broader Earth System and Human Society

• Terrain-influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX)
• Biogeochemistry Initiative
• The Role of Aerosols in Climate and Weather - PACific Dust EXperiment (PACDEX)
  

Priority 3: Improving the Prediction of Weather, Climate and other Atmospheric Phenomena

• THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC)
  

Goal 2: Increase Societal resilience to weather, climate and atmospheric Hazards    [Link]

Priority 2: Building Capacity for Coping with Weather and Climate Hazards

• NCAR's CP-2 Radar in Brisbane, Australia

Priority 3: Establishing Research Connections in Emerging Nations

• India workshop
• CO₂ Analyzers in Africa
  

Goal 3: Education and Diversity    [Link]

Priority 1: Engaging a Broader and More Diverse Community in the atmospheric and geosciences

• Undergraduate Engineering Internships
• Diversity in EOL Hiring Process
• EOL Women’s Professional Development Group
• Expanding Your Horizons Workshop
• Wonders of Science Saturday
  

Priority 2: Supporting and Enhancing Formal Science Education at all levels

• NSF Facilities Users’ Workshop
  
• Pilot High School Student Program
• Student Visits

Priority 3: Maintaining an Innovative and Creative Workplace

• Instituting Sabbatical for Scientific Staff
  

Goal 4: Provide Robust, accessible and innovative information services and tools    [Link]

Priority 2: Developing Research Tools

• EOL Metadata Database and Cyber Infrastructure (EMDAC)
• C-130 Satellite Communication
  

Goal 5: Provide World-class ground, airborne and space borne observational Facilities and Services   [Link]

Enabling Innovative Field Experiments and Measurement Campaigns

• National Radar Facility
• Virtual Operations Center (VOC)
• NSF/NCAR Facilities Assessment
• Observing Facilities Assessment Panel (OFAP)
  
• Field Deployments

New instrumentation

• Community Airborne Platform Remote-Sensing Interdisciplinary Suite (CAPRIS)
• Other Development
  

NSF/NCAR G-V

• PACific Dust Experiment (PACDEX)
• NSF/NCAR G-V Instrumentation