- Air
Quality Lesson Plans and Data - Offered by the Texas
Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the Air Quality
Lesson Plans and Data Web site provides educators with
a wealth of great classroom activities. Over thirty lessons
are categorized by grade level and include lesson plans
on a variety of topics such as acid rain, air pressure,
ozone, meteorology, and more.
- AMS The DataStreme
Project
- Antarctic
Meteorology Online - The Antarctic Meteorology Online
Web site is provided by the British Antarctic Survey and
the Natural Environment Research Council. Visitors will
find weather reports provided by the dozens of stations
located in the Antarctic. The Web master has made these
data accessible by each specific station; by a clickable
map; by a list of all land, ship, or buoy stations; or
by an oracle database interface. The reports are at least
10 minutes old and are normally not more than six hours
old.
- Atlas
of Extratropical Storm Tracks - At this website,
the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies offers an
online atlas of fundamental information on extratropical
storm systems in the mid-latitude during the last half
of the twentieth century. Users can find maps of storm
frequency and intensity and monthly and seasonal means
as well as graphs of individual storm paths and the most
severe storms. Researchers can download the storm track
data and a FORTRAN program used to extract time and geographic
subsets of the database.
- Backyard
Weather Stations - Learn how to build your own backyard
weather station with complete directions provided by FamilyEducation.com's
Web site, Backyard Weather Stations. The site shows exactly
what you'll need and how to build the necessary components
(e.g., rain gauge and barometer), as well as how to keep
records of the data collected. Parents and teachers will
enjoy watching the kids "learn the basics of scientific
observation and record-keeping while satisfying their
natural curiosity about weather."
- Bureau
of Meteorology Research Centre - This website features
the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC)'s investigations
dealing with model development, data assimilation, model
evaluation, and weather, climate, marine, and ocean forecasting.
- Climate Diagnostics
Center - A collaborative project of CIRES (Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) and
NOAA (the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration),
the Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) strives "to
identify the nature and causes of climate variations,
on time scales ranging from a month to centuries" so
as to predict future climate.
- Center for Climatic
Research - Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
The Center for Climatic Research (CCR) "focuses
on studies of present, future, and past climates,
the links between ecosystems and climate and between
civilizations and climate, and assessment of the impacts
of climate variability on water, food, and energy
resources." The Web site
offers descriptions of research; publications; upcoming
events; and, most notably, a data page that allows
visitors to download and create plots of CCR data,
as well as run various models including the Energy
Balance Climate Model.
- The
Climate System - The Climate System is a course
belonging to Columbia University's Earth System Series
curriculum. Although it is not an online course, Web
surfers can take a peek at what the students are learning
through the lecture and lab notes which are posted online.
- Climatology
and Paleoclimatology Resources - The Climatology
and Paleoclimatology Resources Web site is provided
by Steven Baum of the Texas A&M University Department
of Oceanography. Visitors will find links to climate
data and information sites, climate modeling groups,
etextual documents, climate data list, relevant textbooks,
as well as Models and other software.
- NASA Langley Atmospheric
Sciences Data Center - collection of radiation budget,
cloud, aerosol, and tropospheric data from the Langley
Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
contains recent and archival data sets.
- Dan's Wild
Wild Weather Page Dan Satterfield, a chief meteorologist
for a local news station in Alabama, educates children
between the ages of six and 16 about various aspects
of meteorology at this fun website.
- Drought
Monitor - The Drought Monitor is "a synthesis
of multiple indices, outlooks and news accounts, that
represents a consensus of federal and academic scientists." The
National Drought Mitigation Center offers drought maps
of current conditions, short-term and long-term drought
indicators, and animations of the United States.
- Earthguide -
Earthguide is an educational resource for students and
teachers developed by the California Space Institute at
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University
of California San Diego. Features include in-depth stories,
brief topics, and news -- all related to a variety of oceanic
and atmospheric science subjects. The section of links
and resources is quite valuable, with a large number of
links organized by topic, many with brief descriptions.
- The
Earthshine Project - "The Earth's climate depends
on the net sunlight deposited on the globe, which is critically
sensitive to the Earth's albedo. A global and absolutely
calibrated albedo can be determined by measuring the amount
of sunlight reflected from the Earth and, in turn, back
to the Earth from the dark portion of the face of the Moon
(the 'earthshine' or 'ashen light')." - 4/01
- Electron
Microscopy Unit Snow Page - Whether you are a climatologist
or geoscientist looking for good image data or just want
to cool off during a summer heatwave, this site from Beltsville
Agricultural Research Center is not to be missed. Over
40 exquisite electron micrographs of snowflakes are housed
here.
- Global Warming:
Early Warning Signs - Although many of the indicators
for global warming are concentrated in North America and
Europe -- where the science is the strongest -- the map
clearly illustrates the global nature of climate changes.
Although factors other than climate may have intensified
the severity of some of the events on the map, scientists
predict such problems will increase if emissions of greenhouse
gases are not brought under control.
- GreenHouse Gas Online
- Keep current with global warming issues with this Web
site created by greenhouse gas scientist Dave Reay. GreenHouse
Gas Online offers current and archived articles from
newspapers and peer-reviewed journals around the world.
Only journal articles with freely available abstracts
are included. The latest general news and journal articles
can be found listed by title on the site's main page,
while links to topic-specific material are provided in
a side bar.
- Guide
to the Science of the Atmosphere - Offered by USAToday.com,
the Guide to the Science of the Atmosphere Web site contains
dozens of well-designed and informative pages about weather.
Topics include the sun, wind, storms, rains, floods, snow,
tornadoes, and much more. Each page usually contains a
description and a graphic or animation, as well as links
to further information.
- The
Hydrologic Cycle: Online Meteorology Guide - The
Hydrologic Cycle: Online Meteorology Guide Web site
is maintained by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The guide describes the various aspects of the hydrologic
cycle, such as the water budget, evaporation, precipitation,
runoff, etc.
- Interactive
Weather Information Network - Offered by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the
Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) is a
collection of interactive weather maps and satellite
images that is updated every five seconds. Visitors
can see cloud cover animation loops, NEXRAD Radar images
of precipitation, a map of all current weather fronts,
and an interactive national map to see information
about any particular state.
- Internet Weather Source
- National Weather Service
- Lightning
Imaging Sensor Data - Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity
Research at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center provides
these "GIF images showing a graphical representation
of the Lightning Imaging Sensor orbit data for each day."
- Mercury
Rising: a Photo-Documentary on Climate Change -
OneWorldJourneys has created a visually exciting multimedia
site that explores global warming. The site focuses
on climate changes in the Costa Rican cloud forest.
The site shows ecologists at work in Costa Rica and
in the lab, answers viewer questions, and explains
the myriad phenomena. The lowband and broadband versions
of the site differ in levels of visual sophistication,
not in content quantity and quality.
- Midwestern Climate
Center
- The National Weather
Service Forecast Office - Des Moines
- Natural
Hazard Statistics - The Natural Hazard Statistics
Web site offered by National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Association (NOAA) provides statistical information
on fatalities, injuries, and damages caused by weather
related hazards that are compiled by the Office of Meteorology
and the National Climatic Data Center.
- River Watch
- up-to-date river forecast information for the nation's
largest river basins
- Snow
Crystals - The Snow Crystals Web site was created
by physics professor Ken Libbrecht from the California
Institute of Technology. Visitors get to explore how
snow crystals are created and their structure. The main
page describes natural and designer snowflakes, which
are created in the laboratory, along with dozens of
spectacular photographs.
- Weathercation
- Making weather education fun!
- Iowa
Weather from the Interactive Weather Information Network
- The
Weather Channel
- National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration - This site serves
as a major hub for information related to weather, with
links to primary data sources, forecasts, maps, images
(such as the latest satellite imagery for North America),
and a wealth of other data, including space weather.
Researchers will also find links to national weather
research centers and other related agencies.
- Meteorology
Guide: the Online Guides
- North
American Drought: A Paleo Perspective - The NOAA Paleoclimatology
Program is responsible for this excellent resource on Drought
in North America, described within a geological timescale.
Specifically, the Website aims "to explain how paleoclimatic
data can provide information about past droughts and about
the natural variability of drought over timescales of decades
to millennia."
- Radar
Meteorology Tutorial - Brian McNoldy at Multi-community
Environmental Storm Observatory (MESO) educates the public
about the use of radar in meteorology in this pdf document.
- Stormtrack -
is an information-rich site geared toward general audiences.
Along with up-to-the minute reports on exciting storm
activity around the US, Stormtrack provides a library
of chase logs and case studies, data links, weather maps,
a message board and more.
- Tropical Prediction
Center - The Tropical Prediction Center Web site
is maintained by the National Weather Service of NOAA.
Visitors will find current information on tropical
storms and hurricanes, including public advisories.
Also available are hurricane facts, historical data,
tracking charts, satellite imagery, season summaries,
and a wealth of other interesting and important information.
- UV
Index - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
and the National Weather Service (NWS) have co-developed
a predictive "UV Index," forecasting the
next day's ultraviolet radiation levels on a 0-10+
scale. Searchable by zip-code, the UV Index calculates
UV levels based on ozone levels and seasonal/daily
variations in the weather.
- The
Weather Calculator - This collection of resources,
provided by the National Weather Service Forecast Office
for the El Paso area, allows users to be their own
meteorologists. For example, armed with data such as
current temperature, humidity, and windspeed, users
may calculate the heat index or wind chill. Using the
resources on this page, and providing basic meteorological
data such as temperature, air pressure, and dew point,
users can calculate such things as the vapor pressure,
maxing ratio, or density altitude. This site also provides
unit conversion calculators, allowing users to convert
temperatures, air pressures, and wind speeds into various
units.
- Weather Eye
- Presented by the Central Iowa Power Cooperative and Iowa's
KGAN news station, the Weather Eye Educational Web site
offers kids of varying ages lessons about the weather.
The site is divided into four sections, including a
page for kids in grades 2-8, a page for grades 6-12,
a teacher's page, and a parent's page. The Cadet section
for younger kids, for example, contains information
about current weather, experiments to try, and many
lessons in various related subjects, as well as activities
and quizzes to help keep the attention of curious kids.
- Weather
One - From the University of Illinois Extension
comes the Weather One instructional Web site for kids.
The lesson consists of six pages that cover various
weather related topics including seasons, clouds, the
atmosphere, wind, global warming, and storms. Each
page describes the particular subject, provides related
photographs, and contains several activities that reinforce
the learning.
- Web
Weather for Kids - Web Weather for Kids is made
possible by the University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research (UCAR), Friends of UCAR, the Boulder Valley
School District, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Kids can learn about Thunderstorms and Tornadoes, Hurricanes,
Blizzards and Winter Weather, Clouds, Weather Safety,
and much more.
- World Climate
- Created by computer consultant Robert Hoare, WorldClimate.com
contains data "that are historical weather averages,
showing what the weather was typically like each month,
averaged over a range of years." Simply enter
a city to obtain a list of matching entries; then click
on the desired one and up comes all available data.
- World Meteorological Organization -
World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations
Specialized Agency, is the "authoritative voice on
the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction
with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting
distribution of water resources."
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