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Here is a list of Atmospheric Science links. This list is by no means complete, but it will help begin your search!
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| University of Michigan’s Weathernet at | ||
| A rich source of weather information and links to other sources. ( http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ ) | ||
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| Pennsylvania State University’s hourly U.S. Weather Statistics | ||
| An excellent source for current weather conditions. ( http://www.ems.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wx/uswxstats.cgi ) | ||
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| stratospheric ozone | ||
| NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory’s report on stratospheric ozone. ( http://www.gfdl.gov/brochure/3Strat_Ozon.doc.html ) | ||
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| Lyndon State College’s weather web site | ||
( http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/weather/weather.html ) | ||
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| current satellite images | ||
| At both visible and infrared wavelengths. ( http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/weather/weather.html ) | ||
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| Clouds, Radiation, and Climate Sensitivity, | ||
| National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration | ||
| A brief report from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, is located here. ( http://www.gfdl.gov/brochure/7Clouds_Rad.doc.html ) | ||
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| Global Warming Update | ||
| The National Climate Data Center’s Global Warming Update presents graphical data on climate trends through 1993. ( http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gblwrmupd/global.html ) | ||
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| Hourly Dew-Point Data | ||
| Hourly dew-point data for stations throughout North America are available at Pennsylvania State University’s weather page and at AccuWeather. AccuWeather also provides relative humidity values. U.S. maps of total atmospheric water content ("precipitable water") are available from Purdue University’s weather server. ( http://www.ems.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wx/uswxstats.cgi ) | ||
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| Current Weather Conditions | ||
| At over 100 web sites, you can "see" current weather conditions across the United States, thanks to online cameras. These offer an interesting way of studying cloud types. The University of Michigan's Weathernet provides a list of "cloud-cam" sites. ( http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ ) | ||
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| Atmospheric Stability | ||
| A contour map of atmospheric stability is available at the Purdue University weather server. ( http://wxp.atms.purdue.edu/maps/upper_air/ua_con_lift.gif ) | ||
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| Real-time Doppler radar images | ||
| Real-time Doppler radar images are available at the University of Michigan’s Weathernet, as well as at AccuWeather, to name just two of many sites. You can choose presentations that show echo intensity, velocity toward or away from the radar site, and maximum cloud tops, among others. ( http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ ) | ||
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| Charts of Precipitation Totals | ||
| Many web sites provide charts of precipitation totals. Two examples are the U.S. Government Climate Page (above) and Pennsylvania State University’s hourly U.S. Weather Statistics. ( http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/USclimate ) | ||
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| Upper-level charts | ||
| Upper-level charts (500 millibars, 300 millibars, etc.) are available at the University of Michigan’s Weathernet for one, and at AccuWeather. ( http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ ) | ||
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| Surface maps | ||
| Surface maps with isobars and surface weather plots are offered at Ohio State University’s weather page, at ( http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/ ) | ||
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| Customized Maps | ||
| You can construct a great variety of customized maps at The University of Illinois’ Daily Planet website. The Weather Channel’s home page at offers a current U.S. surface map with isobars, highs, lows, and fronts. ( http://covis1.atmos.uiuc.edu/covis/visualizer/ ) | ||
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| Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream | ||
| The weather server at Lyndon State College in Vermont offers a beautiful Northern Hemisphere jet stream map. ( http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/gopher-data/Pictures/wxgifs.hem/nhemjetp.gif ) | ||
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| Ohio State University weather page | ||
| Offers current vorticity values of the 500-millibar wind pattern. ( http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/ ) | ||
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| NASA Satellite Home Page | ||
| The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s GOES satellite home page offers past and present satellite images, including movies. This site is convenient for following the development of weather systems. ( http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/,chesters/goesproject.html ) | ||
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| The National Weather Service | ||
( http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ ) | ||
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| West Coast Weather | ||
| For West Coast weather, an excellent source is the San Francisco State University web site. ( http://tornado.sfsu.edu/geosciences/geosciences.html ) | ||
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| Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory | ||
| NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory offers "Mesoscale studies at GFDL," with movies, lectures, graphics, and more. ( http://www.gfdl.gov/ ) | ||
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| A report on El Niño. | ||
( http://www.gfdl.gov/brochure/2El_Nino.doc.html ) | ||
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| Instructional Unit on El Niño | ||
| An instructional unit on El Niño is available through the University of Illinois Daily Planet web site. ( http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/El-Nino/ ) | ||
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| Coastal Weather | ||
( http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/rsteve/html/lakewx.html ) | ||
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| The University of Oklahoma CAPS home page | ||
| Offers a wide variety of data and images on thunderstorms and tornadoes for people of all ages. ( http://www.uoknor.edu/tornado/CAPS.WWW/tornado.html ) | ||
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| National Severe Storms Laboratory | ||
| The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma. ( http://www.nssl.uoknor.edu/ ) | ||
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| National Severe Storms Forecast Center | ||
| The National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Missouri. ( http://www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/ ) | ||
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| Hurricane Andrew | ||
| NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has an interesting graphic of circulation within Hurricane Andrew. ( http://www.gfdl.gov/brochure/Cover.doc.html ) | ||
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| Hurricane Emily | ||
| A spectacular image of Hurricane Emily at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. ( http://www.gfdl.gov/hurricane.html ) | ||
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| The National Hurricane Center | ||
| Contains a wealth of information about tropical storms worldwide. ( http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.html ) | ||
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| The University of Wisconsin (Madison) Tropical Weather Page | ||
| Gives current conditions for hurricanes and other storms from late spring until November 30; it also includes archives and movies. ( http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/tropic.html ) | ||
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| The University of Illinois | ||
| A good source of information about hurricanes and tropical meteorology. ( http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/ ) | ||
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| NOAA’s National Climate Data Center | ||
( http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ ) | ||
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| The U.S. Government Climate Page at | ||
| An interactive page at which you can request specific climate information for various U.S. locations. ( http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/USclimate/ ) | ||
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| Interactive, worldwide climate information | ||
( http://grads.iges.org/pix/clim.html ) | ||
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| AMS Journals Online | ||
| All users can view titles and abstracts of articles from the AMS journals. Flexible full-text and fielded search capability. Journal contents available online prior to the print journal. Check out the American Meteorological Society! ( http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS ) | ||
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| Climatic Extremes and Weather Events | ||
| This site contains information on U.S. hurricanes, climate change, rainfall, tornadoes, weather events, local storm reports, and La Nina/El Nino. It also has satellite images/movies of hurricanes, tropical storms, and typhoons. Check out this site by NOAA! ( http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/severeweather.html ) | ||
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| Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway | ||
| Cornell has compiled a list of over 15 links to great meteorology resources. ( http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/meteorology.html ) | ||
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| Historical United States Weather Facts | ||
| On this site: Weather facts compiled by Hugh Crowther of the AWC. Hugh is a weather historian and has collected and organized weather facts for every day of the year. The data is accessible by month. ( http://www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/wxfact.html ) | ||
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| Intellicast | ||
| Intellicast.com provides extensive specialized weather information to help plan all outdoor and weather sensitive activities, whether golfing, sailing, hiking, skiing or relaxing at the beach. Drawing on the meteorological knowledge of its staff, Intellicast.com now provides over 250,000 pages of detailed weather information. Intellicast now provides more free, accurate and up to date weather information on the Internet than ever before. ( http://www.intellicast.com/ ) | ||
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| International Research Institute for Climate Prediction | ||
| The IRI will address all aspects of end-to-end prediction, including model and forecast system development, experimental prediction, climate monitoring and dissemination, applications research, and training, in coordination and collaboration with the international climate research and applications community. ( http://iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/ ) | ||
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| Mark's Weather Pages | ||
| Listed in the topic links are some of the best sites that the web has to offer. Put together by Mark Mierzejewski. ( http://users.ntplx.net/~markm/markmainwxframe.htm ) | ||
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| Meteorology, by Danielson/Levin/Abrams | ||
| Check out this site for online quizzing and chapter tools. Watch for Meteorology 2e, due out in October 2000, as well as great enhancements to the website! ( http://www.mhhe.com/earthsci/geology/danielson/ ) | ||
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| Meteorology FAQ, Part 5/6 | ||
| This is a list of Internet resources for people wishing to discuss or learn about meteorology, climatology, oceanography, and related disciplines. They include resources for laypersons, professionals, teachers, and students. ( http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/meteorology/net-resources/faq.html ) | ||
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| Meteorology Resources | ||
| This site contains links to world wide meteorology resources. ( http://wiuadm1.wiu.edu/resources/meteo.htm ) | ||
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| Meteorology Resources | ||
| This site contains links to over 20 world wide meteorology resources. ( http://www.hopkins.k12.mn.us/pages/High/Acad/BkMrks/weather.html ) | ||
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| Online Guide to Meteorology | ||
| This "guide" is a collection of multimedia instructional modules that introduce and explain fundamental concepts in meteorology. ( http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/guide.html ) | ||
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| NASA Homepage | ||
| "NASA is deeply committed to spreading the unique knowledge that flows from its aeronautics and space research...." ( http://www.nasa.gov/ ) | ||
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| NASA Project Site | ||
| The NASA Project Site provides information on a range of meteorological information. ( http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/~ihor/weather.html ) | ||
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| SciCentral | ||
| Comprehensive directories, specialized resources, databases, special reports, selected articles, and educational materials available on Meteorology. ( http://www.scicentral.com/S-meteor.html#education ) | ||
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| Stormchaser Inc. | ||
| Organized weather links--great site! ( http://weather.communitycomputing.com/education/owl_northamerica_education.html ) | ||
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| The Weather Resource | ||
| This site has current conditions, forecasts, and links for over 500 cities, as well as national maps of radar, satellite, long range, aviation, upper air data, marine, thunderstorms, and lake effect snow, etc. There is a directory of over 350 Original Photos mostly taken by T.W.R. of cloud types, sunsets, ice, snow, thunderstorms, waves, flooding, funnel clouds, and more. Also contains links to over 300 weather-related websites! ( http://www.nxdc.com/weather/ ) | ||
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| TVWeather.com | ||
| Listing of university weather departments ( http://www.tvweather.com/tv_univ.htm ) | ||
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| Weather Impacts vJournal | ||
| The Weather Impacts VJournal is a virtual journal that contains a listing of scholarly publications (articles, books, reports, conference papers, etc.) relevant to the societal aspects of weather. ( http://www.dir.ucar.edu/esig/socasp/vjournal.html ) | ||
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| Weather Net | ||
| Welcome to UM Weather, the Internet's premier source of weather information. Providing access to thousands of forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links, UM Weather is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of weather data on the Web. Thanks for stopping by! UM Weather is a non-profit service sponsored by the Weather Underground at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. ( http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ ) | ||
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| Weather Resources | ||
| This site provides links to a wide variety of weather resources. ( http://www.colebrooke.ndirect.co.uk/weather.htm ) | ||
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| Weather Weekly | ||
| This weather site takes a look at U.S. weather. Put together by USA Today and The National Climatic Data Center. ( http://www.weatherweekly.com/ ) | ||
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| Weather World 2010 | ||
| Developed by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, WW2010 (the weather world 2010 project) is a WWW framework for integrating current and archived weather data with multimedia instructional resources using new and innovative technologies. ( http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/home.rxml ) | ||
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| West Virginia Weather Page | ||
| wvlightning.com is a compilation of a variety of educational resources on lightning-for all ages. There are many subsections to this site, so stay a while and look around. ( http://wvlightning.com/ ) | ||
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| World Meteorological Organization | ||
| From weather prediction to air pollution research, climate change related activities, ozone layer depletion studies and tropical storm forecasting, the World Meteorological Organization coordinates global scientific activity to allow increasingly prompt and accurate weather information and other services for public, private and commercial use, including international airline and shipping industries. WMO's activities contribute to the safety of life and property, the socio-economic development of nations and the protection of the environment. ( http://www.wmo.ch/ ) | ||
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| World Wide Web Meteorology Virtual Library | ||
| This virtual library contains a comprehensive list of meteorological resources available on the Internet. Provided by Penn State University. ( http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/WWW_Virtual_Library/ ) | ||
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