Related Websites

These websites are related to topics covered in lab. The links were effective as of 1 May 2012.

Lab 1: Vertical Pressure

Upper-air soundings—University of Wyoming

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html/

Height and pressure

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/prs/hght.rxml

Lab 2: Earth-Sun Geometry

U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department

http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services

Earth-Sun Geometry Module (Carbone)

http://people.cas.sc.edu/carbone/modules/mods4car/earthsun/index.html

Stanford Solar Center

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/about/

Labs 3 & 4: Earth's Energy Budget

University of Oregon radiation animations

http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/

The Earth's radiation energy balance

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/homerbe.html

Earth-Sun geometry module (Carbone)

http://people.cas.sc.edu/carbone/modules/mods4car/shortwave/index.html

Long-wave radiation module (Carbone)

http://people.cas.sc.edu/carbone/modules/mods4car/longwave/index.html

U.S. solar radiation atlas

http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/redbook/atlas/

U.S. solar radiation database

http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/

Lab 5: Moisture

U.S. dew point

http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/Dewpoint.html

U.S. relative humidity

http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/Humidity.html

Moisture Module (Carbone)

http://people.cas.sc.edu/carbone/modules/mods4car/moisture/index.html

Water vapor satellite images:

Latest water vapor imagery for North America, from U. of Wisconsin
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/g8/latest_g8wv.gif
Latest for the globe
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/wv/LATEST_WV.gif

Lab 6: Stability

Upper-air soundings—UCAR

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/

GOES atmospheric soundings—NOAA

http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/goes/soundings/skewt/html/skewtus.html

Upper-air soundings—University of Wyoming

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html/

Lab 7: Cloud Droplets

Experimental GOES aircraft icing imagery

http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/icg.html

Heavy precipitation

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/rainfall.html

Lab 8: Atmospheric Motion

Coriolis demonstration

http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/physicsdemos/videos/3714-the-coriolis-effect

Sea-level pressure and surface winds

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/us_mslp.gif

U.S. surface winds

http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/WindSpeed.html

Upper air winds

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper

El Niño, La Niña, Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Lab 9: Weather Map Analysis

Unisys basics on:

surface maps
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/details.html
upper air charts
http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/details.html
satellite imagery
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/details.html
radar
http://weather.unisys.com/radar/details.html

National Weather Service

http://weather.gov/

Contouring exercise

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/contour/index.html

Lab 10: Midlatitude Cyclones

Current conditions from NWS

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/ccus.html

COLA Weather and Climate Data

http://wxmaps.org

NexSat: North American Satellite Images

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/NEXSAT.html

Satellite gallery of extratropical cyclones

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellite/satelliteseye/cyclones/cyclones.html

Lab 11: Weather Forecasting

Unisys Forecast Pages

http://weather.unisys.com/forehome.php

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts

· National Weather Service Forecasting Offices

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrh/forecastoffice_tab.php

Lab 12: Thunderstorms and Tornadoes

National Severe Storms Laboratory

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/

Storm Prediction Center

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

NOAA tornado page

http://www.noaawatch.gov/themes/severe.php

Satellite gallery of tornadoes

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/satgallery/tornadoes/tornadoes.html

Lab 13: Hurricanes

NOAA hurricane page

http://hurricanes.noaa.gov/

National Hurricane Center, Tropical Prediction Center

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

National Climatic Data Center’s hurricane page

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/hurricanes.html

Tropical storm imagery

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Tropical/

University of Wisconsin tropical cyclone page

http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/

University of Michigan Weather Underground

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/

Naval Research Lab Tropical Cyclone Page

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html

Tropical cyclone module (Carbone)

http://people.cas.sc.edu/carbone/modules/mods4car/tropcycl/index.html

General tropical weather page

http://weather.hawaii.edu/tropical/index.cgi?banner=uhmet

Lab 14: Climate Controls

Sea-surface temperatures:

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst/

Climate controls module (Carbone)

http://people.cas.sc.edu/carbone/modules/mods4car/ccontrol/index.html

Lab 15: Climate Classification

Global climate maps

http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/EIdirect/climate/EIsp0002.htm

Africa ITCZ module

http://people.cas.sc.edu/carbone/modules/mods4car/africa-itcz/index.html

Global climate datasets:

http://www.worldclimate.com

Confluence landscapes:

http://www.orbitals.com/dcp/dcp3a.htm

Lab 16: Climatic Change

Paleoclimate primers

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/primer.html

Paleoclimate data

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html

Global climate change

Oceans and climate (TAMU's site for El Niño, ice ages, etc.)

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/

USGS Volcanic gases and climate

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php

Lab 17: Simulating Climatic Change

Stanford Solar Center

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/glob-warm.html

Appendix B: Earth Measures

Maps

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/

Latitude and longitude

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slatlong.htm

Appendix C: GeoClock

Earth and moon viewer

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html