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Welcome to the advanced Study Program
The Advanced Study Program (ASP) is unique in its encompassing support of NCAR goals and objectives. The ASP mission, broadly defined, is to help NCAR and the scientific communities it serves prepare for the future. We work across scientific disciplines in support of other NCAR units with these objectives:
- to encourage the development of early career scientists in fields related to atmospheric science;
- to direct attention to timely scientific areas needing special emphasis;
- to help organize new science initiatives;
- to support interactions with universities;
- to promote continuing education at NCAR.
Upcoming:
Applications are now being accepted for the ASP Summer Colloquium
June 4-22, 2012
The Weather-Climate Intersection: Advances and Challenges
Deadline for applications is 1/31/2012
Seminar:
Accuracy in LES Prediction of the Atmospheric Surface Layer: the SFS Stress Model, the Surface Stress Model, and Numerical Friction
James Brasseur (Penn State)
11:00 a.m. February 15, 2012 in
FL2 -1022
Our Programs... at a glance
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The postdoctoral program provides an opportunity for recent-Ph.D. scientists to continue to pursue their research interests in atmospheric and related science. The program also invites postdoctorates from a variety of disciplines to apply their training to research in the atmospheric sciences.
Faculty Fellowship Program
The Faculty Fellowship Program provides opportunities and resources for faculty employed at universities to work in residence at NCAR, and enables NCAR Scientists to spend a period of time in residence at US universities.
Graduate Student Visitor Program
The Graduate Student Visitor Program is designed to provide NCAR staff opportunities to bring graduate students to NCAR for 3 to 12-month collaborative visits with the endorsement of their thesis advisors and in pursuit of their thesis research. These visits have the goal of enhancing NCAR partnerships with other public and private institutions.
ASP Spotlight:
Hui Tian
Ubiquitous high-speed solar coronal upflows revealed by both imaging and spectroscopic observations
The solar corona, the upper layer of the solar atmosphere, has a temperature exceeding one million degree. How is the corona heated to such a high temperature? This is among the most important unresolved problems in solar physics. In the past several decades, people proposed basically two types of coronal heating mechanisms: nano-flare heating and magneto-hydrodynamic wave heating. In both mechanisms the coronal materials are heated in place.