The data management plan of the Community Earth System Model (CESM)[1] from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is given historical context and its policies, definitions, and features are detailed. The drivers of CESM data management are discussed, including the upcoming Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5), the ongoing Earth System Grid (ESG) project, and the strateg...

I thank Chairman Boehlert, Ranking Member Gordon, and the other Members of the Committee for the opportunity to speak with you today on NASA’s role in the Earth Sciences. My name is Tim Killeen, and I am the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. I am also the President-Elect of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)...

Black carbon aerosols and the third polar ice cap S. Menon, D. Koch, G. Beig, S. Sahu, J. Fasullo, and D. Orlikowski Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY, USA Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India Climate Analysis Section, CGD/NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA Receive...

The onset processes of the zonally asymmetric anomalies of convection and sea surface temperature (SST) over the tropical Indian Ocean are investigated with considering seasonal evolution, and interannual variability, of the large-scale convection anomalies in the Asian summer monsoon, using outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), SST, and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data. This asymmetric pattern of the co...