Open AccessKilleen to head NCAR
Author(s) -
Grant Shermonta L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/00eo00104
Subject(s) - atmospheric research , aeronomy , corporation , meteorology , head (geology) , aeronautics , atmosphere (unit) , political science , engineering , geography , geology , law , geomorphology
Timothy Killeen, president of AGU's Space Physics and Aeronomy Section, begins his tenure as director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on July 5, 2000. Managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)—a consortium of universities—NCAR's objective is to equip the university research community with the human resources and the computational and observational infrastructure needed to sustain and expand progress in atmospheric and related sciences.