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http://weather.about.com/
Part of the About.com network, this site provides a gateway to Internet resources on weather in over 20 categories. Other features include news and online forums.
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Aerographer's Mate : Module 05 : Basic Meteorology
http://www.tpub.com/content/aerographer/14312/
An introduction to basic meteorology for US military aerographer's mates, including fundamental principles, atmospheric physics, atmospheric circulation, air masses and fronts, atmospheric phenomena, climatology and world weather. Multiple choice questions are provided (without answers). This resource is part of Integrated Publishing's collection of free online books and manuals, mostly US military specifications and educational publications. Subscriptions are required to download the documents, which can also be purchased on CD.
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Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) : Exploring Clouds at the edge of Space
http://aim.hamptonu.edu/
This is the website of the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission which is part of NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. The mission is exploring Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs), also known as noctilucent clouds, to find out why they form and why they have recently been observed in much more southern latitudes. As this is the first time these clouds have been studied in detail, results from the project will provide a basis for studying the long-term variability of the mesospheric climate. The website outlines the mission, the research team, and partner organisations, and provides a mission library containing relevant references. Also provided is a separate education and public outreach resources page which includes science overviews, images, animations, games and other educational material relevant to the project.
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Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503295/descrip
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology is an international journal containing original articles and reviews on "the inter-relationship between meteorology and the fields of plant, animal and soil sciences, ecology, and biogeochemistry". The journal is aimed at meteorologists, soil scientists, agricultural hydrologists and agronomists. Contents and abstracts are available online for free from 1996 onwards via Elsevier Science. The full-text is only available to institutional and personal subscribers of ScienceDirect.
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Air-Sea Interaction and Climate
http://airsea-www.jpl.nasa.gov/
This is the website of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Air-sea Interaction and Climate research group. The main objectives of the research group are to take an interdisciplinary approach to applying space-based observations, ground-based measurements, and numerical models to study the coupled ocean-atmosphere system. Also they study how these exchanges force ocean circulation and distribute the heat, water, greenhouse gases, and nutrients stored in the ocean. The group's website includes descriptions of current projects, animations (various formats) and images, publications, data sets, etc.
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Altus Cumulus Electrification Study (ACES)
http://aces.msfc.nasa.gov/
ACES is a project aiming to gather weather data safely using uninhabited aerial vehicles or ground-based measuring systems. The investigation centre is based at the National Space Science and Technology Center, Alabama, and operates in collaboration with universities and federal agencies. The mission is to observe and detect storms and lightning storms, and study lightning types and optical levels of clouds. The project's website contains general information about ACES, goals, objectives, flight patterns, partners and logistics; it highlights the mission's status and give access to related documentation. It also contains several weather links, image galleries, contact information and links of general interest.
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American Meteorological Society (AMS)
http://www.ametsoc.org/
The website of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) includes the latest news in the field in the form of articles and an online newsletter. The society's monthly bulletin is also available online (downloadable in PDF and sometimes HTML format). Contains information, programmes and registration details for the numerous high profile international conferences organised by the society, as well as author information regarding various refereed journals.
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Answers@NOAA.gov
http://answers.noaa.gov/noaa.answers/consumer/search.asp
This part of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website provides a solution database to resolved questions about the organisation and relevant subjects. It also provides for asking new questions of the technical support staff who reply by email. Subjects covered vary from atmosphere and climate to hurricanes and volcanoes. Results may come from the NOAA website but there are also external links available.
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Antarctic meteorology online from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/metlog/
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has designed this web page as a guide to recent Antarctic weather reports. It is a compilation of data collected throughout several weather stations (eg. pressure, temperature): some of the reports are real time and others can be traced back to 1993. An Oracle interface allows users to see all the stations' data decoded. This site is aimed principally at researchers and students, but also to anybody interested in Antarctic weather.
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Antarctic Meteorology Research Center (AMRC)
http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrc.html
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center incorporates the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center. The centre collects and archives weather and remote sensing data: Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) and composite satellite images, synoptic, automatic weather station (AWS) and radiosonde data and numerical model analyses and forecasts for the Antarctic region. These, along with appropriate visualisation software, are available free of charge to the world's scientific community.
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Arctic : the ocean, sea ice, icebergs, and climate
http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap17/arctic.html
This Web page written by Edward Linacre and Bart Geerts is a brief introduction to the arctic environment covering the following topics: the Arctic Ocean, sea ice, Arctic climate. Photographs and links to related pages are provided. This page forms part of Section 10.8 Snow, of Chapter 10. Precipitation, of "Learning about weather and climate".
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Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)
http://www.aari.nw.ru/default_en.asp
Founded in 1920, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) is part of the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, specialising in polar regions. From this site, downloads of sea-ice, satellite and geophysical data may be undertaken, in addition to access to polar photograph galleries and information on publications, research and AARI facilities. Links to Russian meteorological and climate services are also available. The site is available in English and Russian.
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Arctic Climatology and Meteorology Primer for Newcomers to the North
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Arctic Climatology and Meteorology Primer provides information on meteorology and climate with an emphasis on Arctic phenomena. It includes: the basics of Arctic weather and Arctic climate; optical and acoustical phenomena (Aurora Borealis, halos, coronas and anticoronas, water sky and ice blink, superior mirages, optical haze); factors affecting Arctic weather and climate; and Arctic weather patterns (cyclones, anticyclones, the Polar vortex, Polar lows, the heat sink effect, Arctic oscillation, feedback loops). The primer also includes a glossary, an image gallery, and a map. The material on this site is taken from the "Arctic Climatology Project Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas" on CD-ROM. The Atlas was produced by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russia, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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Arctic Theme Page
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/index.shtml
The NOAA Arctic Theme Page aims to be a comprehensive Arctic resource. It contains a large collection of scientific and general interest information, a photograph gallery and an essay collection. Topics covered include: climate and weather, environmental observations, snow and ice, the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean. Links are provided to related organisations and data sets, educational resources and news services.
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Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research (AAAR)
http://instaar.colorado.edu/AAAR/
Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research (ISSN 1523-0430) is a high impact multi-disciplinary journal, published by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado at Boulder, reporting results of scientific and cultural research in the world's cold environments. Users can submit manuscripts, subscribe to and contact the editors of the journal at this site. Full author instructions are available for those wishing to submit research for publication. Contents lists and abstracts can be browsed or searched.
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Ask A Scientist Archive : Weather (May 2000- Current)
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/wea00.htm
Part of the Argonne National Laboratory Division of Educational Programs information service for K12 teachers and their students, the weather archive section comprises a series of questions and answers on aspects of weather.
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Atmosfera
http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/cuadros2.php?r=1
Atmosfera is freely available in full-text, published quarterly by the Center for Atmospheric Sciences, UNAM, Mexico and made available online by the "E-journal" collection. Subjects covered include atmospheric sciences, meteorology, climatology, aeronomy, physics, atmospheric chemistry, biology, interdisciplinary works, especially those related to oceanography, hydrology, ecology, forestry, glaciology, agriculture and environmental pollution. Articles are available from January 1988, mainly in English but with some content in Spanish, and can be downloaded as PDF files.
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Atmosphere : International Polar Year 2007-2008
http://www.ipy.org/?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&tag=Atmosphere
The website for the International Polar Year (IPY), which is a period of interdisciplinary study of the Earth's polar regions, provides information on various projects and events. This page focuses on polar weather systems, atmospheric transport processes, climate change impacts including man-made ozone depleting substances, and other aspects of the polar atmosphere. Sections include news and announcements, event listings, IPY blogs, and sets of links to related IPY information with further links to relevant external websites.
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Atmospheric and meteorological sciences : Scholarly Societies Project
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/atmosphericsci_soc.html
Based at the University of Waterloo Library, the Scholarly Societies Project provides access to information about a significant number of important scholarly societies across the globe. This section facilitates access to websites of scholarly societies relevant to the atmospheric and meteorological sciences. The sites are listed in alphabetical order with a URL stability rank and the organisations abbreviation alongside. Additional notes include the language of the website, if not English, and information about organisations which no longer have a website.
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Atmospheric science : Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/areas/atmospheric/
This webpage provides access to the atmospheric sciences section of the NERC (the UK Natural Environment Research Council) website. It introduces the strategy for atmospheric science, and links to the Council's research programme and grants. There are links to further information on specific topics such as predicting climate change and reducing carbon emissions.
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Atmospheric Science Program at the University of California, Davis
http://atm.ucdavis.edu/
The University of California Atmospheric Science Department's Web page holds information for prospective students, as well as local climatological and weather forecast data. An atmospheric unit conversion calculator is provided.
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Atmospheric Sounders; Classes of Metsats : Remote Sensing Tutorial
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect14/Sect14_3.html
This page contains two main topics: 'Atmospheric Sounders', which are used on meteorological satellites (metsats) to produce atmospheric profiles, and a discussion of the two main types of metsats, orbiting and geostationary. This page forms part of the 'Remote Sensing Tutorial', hosted at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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August 2003 : Hot Spell
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/aug03maxtemps.html
This web page created by the United Kingdom Meteorological Office shows a table of highest maximum UK temperatures for 5 and 10 August 2003; highest extremes during 2003 using data available on 1 October; a section on maximum temperature extremes prior to 2003; and also a section on hot spells, with consecutive maximum temperatures over 30 degree Celsius.
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Australian Antarctic Division
http://www.aad.gov.au/
The Australian Antarctic Division provides a clearly structured and easy to use website, which offers information on its mission, activities and services, together with scientific data relating to the nature of Antarctica. The site includes free access to many scientific datasets and maps in the form of interactive databases. It provides learning materials for teachers and students, including maps, images, statistics, activity sheets and other publications. The site also covers legislative issues and provides information about the Antarctic Treaty protocol, parties, meetings and other instruments.
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Aviation Weather
http://virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov/weather/tutorial/tutorial1.html
This online tutorial provided by NASA's Virtual Skies programme details weather relevant to all types of aviation. This tutorial explains the importance of the weather for flying and contains sections on the atmosphere, wind, moisture, cloud types and weather services for pilots. Each section is illustrated with colour diagrams and photographs.
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