About University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a US nonprofit consortium of over 100 colleges and universities providing research and training in the atmospheric and combined sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and provides additional services to enlarge on and Keep research and education through its community programs. Its headquarters, in Boulder, Colorado, include NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, designed by I.M. Pei.

UCAR was received in 1959 by capacity from 14 leading universities to withhold and nourish the atmospheric sciences. They were provoked by a newly approved need for pooled observational and computational services and a strong research staff, which together would allow the academic community to carry out complex, long-term scientific programs more than the reach of individual universities.

This group’s first major action, in partnership considering the National Science Foundation, was to sustain NCAR. Since then, UCAR has managed NCAR on behalf of NSF to habitat pressing scientific and societal needs involving the atmosphere and its interactions similar to the oceans, land, and Sun—what is now called Earth system science.

The city of Boulder is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county chair and the most populous municipality of Boulder County, Colorado, United States. Boulder is the principal city of the Boulder, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. The city is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an height above sea level of 5,430 feet (1,655 m) above sea level, located 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Denver.

Boulder’s population is estimated to be 105,673 as of 2019. It is house of the main campus of the University of Colorado, the state’s largest university. The city frequently receives high rankings in art, health, well-being, quality of life, and education.