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ATMOSPHERE

[ Atmospheric Science / Air Quality / Meteorology / Weather ]
[ Atmospheric Organizations ]
[ Climate ] [ Climate Change ]
[ El Nino / La Nina / ENSO ]
[ Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming ]
[ Hurricanes / Tornadoes / Storms ]
[ Monsoons ] [ Ozone Depletion ]

Atmospheric Science / Air Quality / Meteorology / Weather Data:

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Atmospheric Organizations

  • American Meteorological Society - AMS
  • Atmospheric Sciences - USGS (US Geological Survey)
  • Bureau of Meteorology - Australia
  • CALCOFI - predictions for fisheries in California, etc.
  • Center for Earth and Planetary Studies -  National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  • CIMSS - Cooperative Institute for Satellite Studies - SSEC-Univ of Wisconsin-Madison: albedo, OLR vs SWR, net radiation
  • CNN - Weather
  • CPC - Climate Prediction Center - homepage
  • Department of Atmospheric Sciences: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Earth Space Research Group - UCSB - ICESS Channel Mooring Group -
    Institute for Computational Earth System Science
  • EOSDIS - gateway to data / imagery
  • EROS Center
  • JISAO - Joint Integrated Study of Atmosphere and Oceans
  • IMCS - Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers Univ / New Jersey (gateway to remote sensing data)
  • IPCC Working Group II Home Page
  • ISU Atmospheric Sciences (Iowa State Univ)
  • NASA - Observatorium
  • National Climate Data Center - NCDC -National Climate Data Center - NOAA
  • NESDIS and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Home Page
  • LDEO - Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
  • NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency
  • NOAA WWW Information Servers - HDQ home
  • PERSIANN -- Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks
  • UNYSIS  - Weather Processor
  • Satellite Oceanography Lab - Virtual Hawaii site & weather
  • SkyPix (Roger Edwards)
  • SALSA homepage - Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere Program - Univ of Arizona - Dept of Hydrology & Water Resources
  • UCAR - NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
  • Utah Climate Center
  • Utah MESONET - Utah Weather Cameras  - Utah MesoNet
  • Weather Underground - Univ of Michigan
  • WIIS - Weather Image Information System
  • World Meteorological Organization - The Official WMO Home Page - Geneva Switzerland
     


     
     

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    • Climate:

  • Atmospheric and Space Sciences - NOAA websites list
  • CLIMAS -  Southwest Assessment - climate data - The Climate Assessment Project for the Southwest
  • Climate data - BOM - Australia
  • Climate data online - NCDC
  • Climate Diagnostics Center - NOAA
  • Climate Diagrams - CLIMOGRAPHS
  • Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington
  • Climate - USGS - Ground Water Atlas of the US, Segment 1, California, Nevada
  • Climate Variations Bulletin & other Reports - NCDC
  • Climate visualizations -CLIMVIS -  NCDC
  • Climate/Weather/Earth Hotlist - Rice University
  • Climatic Research Unit  - UK
  • CPC - Climate Prediction Center - homepage
  • CPC - Global Climate Highlights & Anomalies
  • CPC - Climate Prediction and Forecasts
  • FAO - Global Climate Maps site
  • Forecasts - Long Term weather / Climate e.g. Sahel, El Nino
  • GCPS Dataset Selection - NOAA/CPC Global climate data
  • Intro to Weather & Climate - SSEC - course on meteorology - Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Koppen / Trewartha Climate Types / Classification
  • LDEO Climate Group Home Page
  • National Climate Data Center - NOAA
  • NCDC Climate Visualization - CLIMVIS - home
  • NCDC On-Line Climate Data Resources
  • NCDC - Climate Research Resources and Applications - list
  • Paleoclimatology Program -NOAA
  • PERSIANN -- Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks
  • Precipitation & Temperature - USGS - Ground Water Atlas of the US, Segment 1, California, Nevada
  • Semi-Arid Land Surface-Atmosphere Program - Univ of Arizona - Dept of Hydrology & Water Resources
  • UCC -Utah Climate Center - DATA Service - Utah Climate Station List
  • United States Climate page: Displays various climatological information
  • Utah Climate Center: Online Data Retrieval System
  • Utah Weather Cameras Page - Utah MesoNet
  • Western Regional Climate Center WWW Server
  • Western U.S. Climate Historical Summaries
  • World Data Center-A - NOAA
  • World Meteorological Organization - The Official WMO Home Page - Geneva Switzerland

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    Climate Change

        See also: El Nino/La Nina / ENSO: and Global Warming/Greenhouse Gases
     
  • Climate Action Network Online - Newsletter, etc
  • Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington
  • Climate Variability and Trends - NOAA
  • Climate Variability & Greenness for the Greater Horn of Africa - article
  • Climate Protection Initiative - WRI
  • Climate Variations Bulletin & other data - NCDC
  • Climate Change and Human Health - USGCRP: Recent Documents & Official Statements
  • CPC - Climate Prediction Center - homepage
  • CPC - Global Climate Highlights & Anomalies
  • CPC - Climate Prediction and Forecasts
  • Compendium of Global Trends - ORNL
  • Consequences - Journal of Global Change
  • Degrees of Change - Newsletter on Global Climate Change
  • GCDIS - US Global Change Data and Information System
  • Global Change Research at CMU - Carnegie Mellon Univ
  • Global Data Sets- UNEP/GRID
  • Information Sources on Global Warming - CATO Institute - "anti-perspectives"
  • Infectious Diseases and Global Climate Change - WWF ESI98 Module
  • Integrated Science Assessment of Climate Change- home
  • Internet Companion - home - GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE:  AN ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE - University of Utah/John Horel
  • Intro to Weather & Climate - SSEC - course on meteorology - LECTURE NOTES - Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
  • IPCC - Panel on Climate Change documents
  • IPCC - Technical Paper No. 1 -  Overview on Climate Change
  • JISAO - Joint Integrated Study of Atmosphere and Oceans - University of Washington (UW) and the  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • LDEO Climate Group Home Page
  • Linkages - Climate Change - WRI and UN
  • MBARI - biogeochemical cycles research
  • NOAA / NESDIS - North American Climate Variability
  • Ozone Hole Tour - Cambridge University
  • People and Climate Change on the Great Plains - teachers materials
  • PCMDI- Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
  • Potsdam Instite - Climate Impact Research
  • Protecting the Atmosphere - Climate Change Resources - WRI
  • SALSA homepage - Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere Program - Univ of Arizona
  • Taking Action on Climate Change - Debunking the Myths - WRI (World Resources Institute)
  • UNEP's Global Environment Outlook-1 - web version
  • UNEP - Global databases/GRID
  • Union of Concerned Scientists - Global Warming
  • U.S. Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) - home/resource links
  • USGS - Global Change Research Program - home
  • WW2010 - the weather world 2010 project - home
  • World Resources 1996-1997 - WRI - data tables and text of chapters - Chapter 14 - Atmosphere and Climate and Data Tables (PDF file) - Acrobat reader needed
  • World Resources 1998-99 - WRI - chapter summaries
  • WWF - Climate Change Campaign

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    El Nino / La Nina / ENSO

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    Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming

  • Arrhenius-Langley Era - global warming - article - ORNL
  • Atmospheric Chemistry - POSTIX mini-modules/Univ of Maryland
  • Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations - Keeler Data -  CDIAC
  • Atmospheric Chemistry - IMAGES - GSFC/DAAC
  • Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) - Products and Services list - home
  • Climate Change page - WRI
  • Coral Bleaching Hotspots - NOAA/NESDIS - data, images, El Nino, etc
  • Forest Response to Changes in Atmospheric Composition and Climate - USGCRP
  • Global Warming International Center - home
  • Global Warming - from Union of Concerned Scientists & Resources on the Web
  • Glossary - Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
  • IGAC - International Center for Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Information Sources on Global Warming - CATO Institute - "anti-perspectives"
  • Internet Companion - home - GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE:  AN ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE - University of Utah/John Horel
  • IPCC - Document - Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change
  • Linkages - Climate Change - WRI and UN
  • Mauna Loa - CO2 graph - Keeling data
  • Maximum and Minimum Temperature Trends - global warming - A New Perspective on Recent Global Warming: Asymmetric Trends of Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature
  • ORNL - DAAC : Global Biogeochemical Dynamics (Oak Ridge National Lab)
  • Ozone depletion resources - see below
  • Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI)
  • Protecting the Atmosphere - WRI
  • Rachel's #466: Warming & Infectious Diseases I- & Global Warming
  • Real Greenhouse: What does it do?  - Module
  • Real Waterworld - simulation
  • Taking Action on Climate Change - Debunking the Myths - WRI (World Resources Institute)
  • Union of Concerned Scientists - Global Warming
  • USGS - Global Change Research Program - Carbon Cycle Research
  • World Resources 1996-1997 - WRI - data tables and text of chapters - Chapter 14 - Atmosphere and Climate and Data Tables (PDF file) - Acrobat reader needed
  • World Resources 1998-99 - WRI - chapter summaries
     
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    Hurricanes - Tornadoes - Storms

    See also:

    Coastal zone Processes and Oceans and Marine Ecosystems -
    Caribbean: Marine & Coastal Sciences - Hurricane Mitch/Honduras Disaster
     

  • Case - Sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald - SSEC
  • CINDI - Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information - USGS
  • Climate Change (Global)  and Weather Extremes - NCDC
  • Climate Variations Bulletin & other data - NCDC
  • Coastal Erosion from El Nino Storms - USGS 1998
  • Coastal Erosion from Catastrophic Storms - module - Woodrow Wilson Foundation - teacher module
  • Crisis in Central America: Post-Mitch Relief to Remote Moskito Coast
  • CSU -- Tropical Meteorology Project - Colorado State University
  • Environmental and Societal Impacts Group - ESIG - UCAR (impact of weather events)
  • Extreme events...Trends NCDC
  • Florida thunderstorm - Visualization -
  • Hurricane Bonnie - 1998 - post-analysis, aerial/GIS, satellite
  • Hurricane Mitch Disaster Page - Honduras government Home -
  • Hurricane Mitch - 1998 -  Honduras - see separate resource lists:
    a) Special May Term Course/Westminster College and
    b) WWW List on Hurricane Mitch - 1998
  • Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, Central America - Help Honduras
  • Hurricane Mitch: National Plan for Reconstruction and Transformation - article
  • Hurricane Risks areas - US - map - USGS
  • Hurricanes & Typhoons - NOAA - images, resources
  • Hurricanes'98 - One Sky, Many Voices - University of Michigan
  • Hurricanes: online educational module
  • Hurricane Impacts on the coastal environment - USGS
  • Images/Movies of Hurricanes and Special Events  - NCDC
  • Individual Hazards - USGS page/links to several themes, e.g. floods, earthquakes, etc.
  • Informe sobre el impacto del Huracán Mitch - ENEE/Honduras
  • Jarrell TX - Tornado
  • Lowe's Storm Central: Tornados and Hurricanes - home
  • National Hurricane Center - Florida
  • National Severe Storms Lab - Norman OK
  • Oakfield, WI - Case Study - SSEC - TORNADO!
  • Operational Significant Event Imagery - NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Server..see...Index of /Events/Tropical/Atlantic/Mitch
  • OSEI - Hurricane Mitch Special Coverage- NCDC - NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Server...
  • Severe Storms - UIUC
  • Storm Prediction Center - NOAA
  • Tornado Debris Project - home
  • Tornado Risk Areas - US - map - USGS
  • Tropical storm Mitch devastates Central America - ReliefWeb
    (see resources above as well)
  • Weather Satellite Events Art Gallery: Main Gallery- NCDC
  • World-Wide Disaster Relief information on the Internet - home
  • Year in Review--1998: Are Weather Extremes Now the Norm? (Part 1 of 2) - DisasterRelief.org
  • Year in Review--1998: Examining the Ecology of Disasters (Part 2 of 2) - DisasterRelief.org
     
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    Monsoons

    See also: Coastal zone Processes and Oceans and Marine Ecosystems:
     

  • Indian Ocean Monsoon - online module - ESRG / ICESS Santa Barbara
     
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    Ozone Depletion

     
  • Air Quality / pollution - lesson plans - Texas Air Quality Agency
  • Atmospheric Chemistry Data and Resources - GSFC/DAAC
  • Atmospheric Chemistry - IMAGES - GSFC/DAAC
  • Atmospheric Chemistry pages by POSTIX - Univ of Maryland
  • Educational Images/modules - Ozone and the Atmosphere/Chemistry - GSFC/DAAC
  • Global Warming International Center
  • Graphing Stratospheric Ozone - activity/Exploratorium
  • IGAC - International Center for Atmospheric Chemistry
  • IPCC - Panel on Climate Change documents
  • Multimedia loops - OZONE
  • ORNL - DAAC : Global Biogeochemical Dynamics (Oak Ridge National Lab)
  • Ozone - Atmospheric Chemistry - IMAGES - GSFC/DAAC
  • Ozone Animation - annual Antarctica
  • Ozone Chemistry Links - Exploratorium
  • Ozone Depletion - from Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Ozone - GLOBAL CHANGE - Newsletter
  • Ozone Animation - annual Antarctica
  • Ozone Fact Sheet - Why we care? - NASA
  • Ozone Hole Tour - Cambridge University
  • Protecting the Atmosphere - WRI
  • Science of Ozone Depletion - article - EPA
  • Spacelink - Ozone Studies resources - GSFC
  • Stratospheric Ozone Depletion tutorial & resources from GSFC
  • TOMS (Total Ozone Monitoring Satellite) - Home Page
  • Union of Concerned Scientists - Global Warming
  • World Resources 1996-1997 - WRI - data tables and text of chapters - Chapter 14 - Atmosphere and Climate and Data Tables (PDF file) - Acrobat reader needed
  • World Resources 1998-99 - WRI - chapter summaries
     
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    Last Revised: May 27, 2004