Research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) covers a wide variety of topics, from Severe Storms, Prediction and Forecasting, air chemistry and sun and space weather. EOL plays an intergral part in NCAR's mission to explore and understand our atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society.

We do this by providing state-of-the-art atmospheric observing systems and support services and by ongoing analysis of data produced by these systems during field projects. EOL scientists also monitor the ever-evolving data requirements of the atmospheric science community in order to create totally new systems that revolutionize the way data sets are gathered and weather phenomena is understood.