The NCAR Annual Report

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a federally funded research and development center. Together with our partners at universities and research centers, we are dedicated to exploring and understanding our atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human society.

This document is the NCAR’s science and facility plan for fiscal years 2006/07 and accomplishments for fiscal years 2005/06 and responds to guidance from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Atmospheric Sciences (ATM).

The program plan and the NCAR programs it describes were developed and thoroughly reviewed at NCAR. Priorities and programmatic emphases have been established in accordance with published NSF criteria. In addition, NCAR’s annual program planning and implementation occurs in the framework of a long-range strategic plan prepared with community and Foundation involvement.

NCAR’s Science and Facility Plans and Accomplishments