拆分美国著名气候实验室的计划推进中

Bidders have lined up to take over pieces of the National Center for Atmospheric Research I n January, the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) made a surprising announcement: It would change the computa- tional heart of its premier forecast model, which divides the atmosphere into virtual parcels and solves the physical equations that describe how heat and moisture move around the globe. NWS had always relied on “dy- namical cores” developed at its par- ent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But now, it would turn to a core developed at its longtime peer—and sometimes rival—the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the famed weather and climate re- search lab in Boulder, Colorado. …