| ||
|
| Answers to commonly asked questions about rainbows. Topics include their formation, the cause of the colours in a rainbow, double rainbows, proverbs, and suggested rainbow experiments. | |
| Bibliography on El Nino and its effects on global and local weather patterns. | ||
| Maintains a network of automatic data buoys in the Arctic Basin which monitor synoptic scale fields of pressure, temperature, and ice motion to support real-time operations and meteorological and oceanographic research. Provides monthly buoy maps, data sets, buoy reports, and a buoy motion and ice concentration animation which uses data from 1979 to 1994. Includes browsable images and data plots with accompanying audio files and buoy diagrams. | ||
| A glossary of terms relating to weather and climate, including absolute temperature, extratropical cyclone, nimbostratus, thermodynamic chart and visible radiation. | ||
| Extensive list of mainly European meteorological information, including current global climate highlights. | ||
| A digital library of real time and historical satellite data from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES). The system allows users to search satellite data inventories, preview subsampled Earth images of that data and download the actual data for further analysis. | ||
| Brings together links to meteorological information relevant to the British Isles (including Ireland) and surrounding waters. | ||
| Links to meteorology departments in US universities. | ||
| Details of research programs encompassing the Earth's atmosphere, land masses and oceans, and the interaction between the earth and the Sun | ||
| Society aiming to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities. | ||
| Documents the growth of snow crystals, explaining the formation of various shapes. Covers natural snowflakes, with information on classifications, snow preservation, ice crystal halos, unusual forms, and early observations by Kepler, Descartes, Hooke, Bentley, and Nakaya. A photo collection is also included, together with galleries of designer snowflakes. A section headed 'Snowflake Physics' contains material about snow crystal primer, diffusion, dendrite growth, ice surface, electric growth, and ice properties. | ||
| One of the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centres. Provides links to collections of resources, projects, programmes, software, online journals, and events. | ||
| Earth Interactions exploits the capabilities of electronic communications technology to add value to the publication of research results in the interdisciplinary earth sciences. The journal publishes articles dealing with the interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere in the context of global issues or global change. It provides authors with the opportunity to use animations and other visualisation techniques that traditional publications cannot accommodate. | ||
| Extensive collection of resources and teaching guides covering meteorology, weather forecasting and other areas of the geosciences. | ||
| The Society helps research workers, professional meteorologists, those whose work is affected by the weather or climate, and others who want to keep up with new findings or are just interested in the weather. | ||
| The national meteorological institute of the Netherlands. Information is in Dutch. | ||
| Details the activities of Canada's Meteorological Service. Offers current condition reports, local forecasts, weather facts, and information on environmental concerns such as air quality, climate change, and the ozone layer. Also outlines MSC projects, and provides details of publications. | ||
| A collection of web based instructional modules that use multimedia technology and the dynamic capabilities of the Web, including diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio and video, to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences. | ||
| Designed to assist UK atmospheric researchers to locate, access and interpret atmospheric data, the centre provides permanent archives for data sets from Natural Environment Research Council funded projects. The searchable archive includes data from the Met. Office and information on ozone experiments, stratosphere, mesosphere and troposphere measurements, sea temperatures and forecasting. | ||
| Links to Internet resources in atmospheric science. | ||
| Relays oceanographic and surface meteorological data in real time from 70 moorings in the Tropical Pacific Ocean. The data are then retransmittted worldwide to oceanographic and meteorological centres via the Global Telecommunication System. TAO is a major component of the global climate observing system. | ||
| El Nino is a disruption of the ocean atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather around the globe. Includes basic facts, forecasts, climatology, and satellite data. | ||
| WMO is a specialist organisation of the United Nations, based in Geneva. It coordinates global scientific activity in areas of weather prediction, air pollution research, climate change, ozone layer depletion studies and tropical storm forecasting, to allow prompt and accurate weather information for public, private and commercial use, including international airline and shipping industries. Major WMO progammes include World Weather Watch, Applications of Meteorology, World Climate Research, Global Climate Observing System, Atmospheric Research and Environment, Hydrology and Water Resources, Education and Training. Information is in English, French and Spanish. | ||
| The Met Office is a public sector organisation providing meteorological and related services for the Government, the armed forces, the public, aviation and commercial customers. Includes information on the latest weather, weather forecasting methods, research, development and operations. | ||
| Defines hurricanes, explains where they develop and how they are measured, convective processes and development stages. | ||
| ||