Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
Tom Berg
Last-modified: 1 March 2000
Recent changes:
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With special honor given to Ilana Stern who conceived of this FAQ and
maintained it with the greatest of professionalism and care until the torch was passed to me.
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and <URL:http://www.faqs.org/>.
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Subject: 1) Table of contents
1) Table of contents
2) Overview
3) Where to find the FAQs
4) How to use the file retrieval methods
Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.
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Subject: 2) Overview
This is the introduction to a series of FAQ postings for the Usenet newsgroup
sci.geo.meteorology. "FAQ" stands for Frequently Asked Questions: these
postings are intended to answer the general question, "Where can I get <X>?"
for just about any value of <X> which has anything to do with meteorology.
This FAQ series grew out of a FAQ which was much smaller in scope, the
"Sources of Meteorological Data FAQ" which identified Internet and
other sources of meteorological data for both the hobbyist and the
researcher. The bulk of this FAQ series is still about data sources,
but a lot of other information has been added.
The following postings comprise the FAQ series:
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
Summary: Introduction to the sci.geo.meteorology FAQs
Archive-name: meteorology/faq-intro
1. Table of contents
2. Overview
3. Where to find the FAQs
4. How to use the file retrieval methods
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data
Summary: Weather data available via the Internet
Archive-name: meteorology/weather-data
1. Table of contents
2. Overview
3. Collections of weather data links
4. US Regional Climate Centers
5. US State Climatologists
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data
Summary: Research and miscellaneous data available via the Internet
Archive-name: meteorology/research-data
1. Table of contents
2. Overview
3. Multidisciplinary Data Centers
4. Climate and weather
5. Satellite data
6. Hydrology and glaciology
7. Environmental chemistry
8. Geophysical and mapping data
9. Instruments and field experiments
10. Oceanography
11. Miscellaneous data
12. Software and documentation
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 4/6: Sources of CD-ROMs
Summary: Weather and research data available via CD-ROM
Archive-name: meteorology/cdroms
1. Table of contents
2. Overview
3. Weather data
4. Research data
5. Miscellaneous CDs
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Internet resources
Summary: Mailing lists, newsgroups, institutional home pages etc.
Archive-name: meteorology/net-resources
1. Table of contents
2. Overview
3. Newsgroups and WWW bulletin boards
4. Mailing lists
5. Institutional home pages -- non-US
6. Institutional home pages -- US
7. Employment resources
8. Educational resources for teachers
9. Information on meteorology topics
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources
Summary: Books for scientists and laymen, journals, societies etc.
Archive-name: meteorology/print-resources
1. Table of contents
2. Overview
3. Books readable by English-reading nonprofessionals
4. Books readable by French-reading nonprofessionals
5. Magazines readable by nonprofessionals
6. Scientific Texts
7. Meteorological History
8. Journals
9. Professional Societies
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of U.S. State Climatologists
Summary: List of U.S. State Climatologist
Archive-name: meteorology/state-climatologists
1. Table of contents
2. Overview
3. State Climatologists
4. Regional Climate Centers
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Subject: 3) Where to find the FAQs
This FAQ series is posted to sci.geo.meteorology, news.answers, and
sci.answers every two weeks; it also appears on the mailing lists CLIMLIST and met-stud.
Current copies of this FAQ series can be obtained in hypertext form via WWW at <URL:http://www.mobile.gulf.net/~hcane/met/scigeo.html> These faqs are also stored in the general USENET FAQ repositories, for example <URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/meteorology/>.
This information, particularly the internet resources lists, changes
rapidly. If the date in the headers of the document you're reading
is more than a month old, you should retrieve a more current copy.
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Subject: 4) How to use the file retrieval methods
This section only describes FTP and telnet in any detail; for other
methods, FTP sites are given, so you can get information on them yourself.
How to use FTP
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows transfer of files between two computers which are on the Internet. To access the FTP areas listed here, at your system prompt type "ftp" followed by the name of the desired system. For example, to access ncardata.ucar.edu you'd type
ftp ncardata.ucar.edu
Use "anonymous" as your login and your email address as the password (if requested).
[Note: quotes ("like this") are used to set off names of directories and files, or commands you'd type, and are not part of these names.]
Not all FTP systems accept the same commands, but here's a list of the most useful:
ls: list files in the current directory.
cd: change directory, e.g. "cd wx" changes to the wx directory.
binary: sets binary mode
ascii: sets ascii mode (the default). Use for retrieving text.
get: retrieves a file, e.g. "get readme" gets a file called readme.
bye: exits FTP.
If you can't seem to connect to the site, check to see if it is a telnet site. If it is, follow the instructions in the following section instead. If you can't FTP from your site, use one of the following ftp-by-mail servers:
ftp...@decwrl.dec.com
ftp...@src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftp...@cs.uow.edu.au
ftp...@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
Send an e-mail message to the closest address, with the lines:
reply your_a...@some.where <- with your email address
connect ncardata.ucar.edu <- for example
cd datasets/ds111.2/software
get access_sun.f
quit
For complete instructions, send a one-line message reading "help" to the server. Please don't ask me for help!
How to use telnet
Type "telnet" followed by the name or IP number of the desired system. These publicly accessible systems generally allow you to log in but put you in a restricted shell, from which only a certain menu of commands is available.
The description for the site will include the login to use.
If you can't seem to connect to the site, re-check its description in the document; if it's an FTP site, follow the instructions in the previous section instead.
Gopher information
Available by ftp at <URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq>.
Wais information
Available by ftp at
<URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/wais-faq/getting-started>.
WWW information
Available by ftp at <URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq>.
WWW is so easy to use that you might as well just hop in and try it, so
ask your sysadmin if you have a WWW browser such as NCSA Mosaic Netscape or Explorer.
Tom Berg
Last-modified: 1 March 2000
Recent changes:
==within last two weeks==
==within last four weeks==
This article is copyright (c) 2000 by Tom Berg. It may be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not removed.
With special honor given to Ilana Stern who conceived of this FAQ and
maintained it with the greatest of professionalism and care until the torch was passed to me.
If the date in the headers of the document you're reading
is more than a month old, you should retrieve a current copy.
Current copies of this FAQ series can be obtained in hypertext form via WWW at <URL:http://www.mobile.gulf.net/~hcane/met/scigeo.html>.
There are 7 documents in this FAQ series:
Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data <===
Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data
Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs
Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Internet resources
Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources
Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of State Climatologists
Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Tom Berg at
hc...@mobile.gulf.net. Please include in your message where you read
this FAQ series. Note that if I know about it, it's in these documents.
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Subject: 1) Table of contents
1) Table of contents
2) Overview
3) Collections of weather data links
4) US Regional Climate Centers
5) US State Climatologists
Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.
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Subject: 2) Overview
This section used to contain weather data: satellite images,
forecast maps, soundings, and so on. However, with the proliferation
of many great sites which present lists of weather links, I've decided
to remove this section and replace it with a list of a few of these
comprehensive sites from which you can obtain many others. This will
let me focus on the research data portions of the FAQ which are
more important and interesting to me professionally.
For weather related software, see the research data section (part 3).
I may add it here in the future.
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Subject: 3) Collections of weather data links
<URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/>
WeatherNet is a big collection of North American weather links, images,
and information.
<URL:http://www.comet.net/weather/>
North American weather links including marine and tropical data.
<URL:http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/weather.html>
Allentown Weather Center. Links to many weather data sources worldwide
including climate data. Text-browser friendly.
<URL:http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/WWW_Virtual_Library/>
The WWW Virtual Library -- Meteorology. (Formerly at the
Free University of Berlin)
<URL:http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~klee/Enforcer/wx-spot1.html>
The Weather Spot. Links to many weather pages, organized by type of
data (satellite, severe, forecast, surface, climate, etc.) Mostly US.
<URL:http://www.nxdc.com/weather/>
The Weather Resource. Links to many weather pages, and to forecasts,
movies, etc. Frames.
<URL:http://weather.miningco.com>
The Mining Company weather page has links and reviews of weather
related web pages, plus articles.
<URL:http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/index.html>
Links to European weather sites.
<URL:http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wbc/>
Links to Australian weather sites.
<URL:http://atmos.es.mq.edu.au/MACISS/query.html>
Searchable database of atmospheric science servers.
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Subject: 4) US Regional Climate Centers
<URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu>
Western RCC
<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
Northeast RCC
<URL:http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/sercc.html>
Southeast RCC
<URL:http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html>
Southern RCC
<URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/>
High Plains RCC
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Subject: 5) US State Climatologists
<URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/aasc.html>
NOAA's official list of US state climatologists.
Tom Berg
Last-modified: 1 March 2000
Recent changes:
==within last two weeks==
==within last four weeks==
This article is copyright (c) 2000 by Tom Berg. It may be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not removed.
With special honor given to Ilana Stern who conceived of this FAQ and
maintained it with the greatest of professionalism and care until the torch was passed to me.
If the date in the headers of the document you're reading
is more than a month old, you should retrieve a current copy.
Current copies of this FAQ series can be obtained in hypertext form via WWW at <URL:http://www.mobile.gulf.net/~hcane/met/scigeo.html>.
There are 7 documents in this FAQ series:
Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data
Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data <===
Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs
Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Internet resources
Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources
Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of U.S. State Climatologists
Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Tom Berg at
hc...@mobile.gulf.net. Please include in your message where you read
this FAQ series. Note that if I know about it, it's in these documents.
------------------------------
Subject: 1) Table of contents
1) Table of contents
2) Overview
3) Multidisciplinary Data Centers
4) Climate and weather
5) Satellite data
6) Hydrology and glaciology
7) Environmental chemistry
8) Geophysical and mapping data
9) Instruments and field experiments
10) Oceanography
11) Miscellaneous data
12) Software and documentation
Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.
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Subject: 2) Overview
Sites listed in this section contain sites with data other than just
weather information. This includes map data, miscellaneous images,
atmospheric and oceanographic research data, and software for use
with meteorological data. Primary data centers are listed first,
followed by sites which may have some data of that type but are not
necessarily official data centers.
Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over
the network; only metadata, or information about the data, is available,
and you must place an order for the actual data.
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Subject: 3) Multidisciplinary Data Centers
<URL:http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov>
<URL:telnet://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov> (login "gcdir")
The Global Change Master Directory is a multidisciplinary on-line
information system containing descriptions of Earth and space science
data holdings available to the science community. These include data from
NASA, NOAA, NCAR, USGS, DOE (CDIAC), EPA, NSF and other U.S. and
international agencies, universities, and research centers.
For telnet access, login as "gcdir".
<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/index.html>
<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu>
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Data Support Section
maintains a large archive of a variety of atmospheric, oceanic, and
geophysical datasets, encompassing most subdisciplines. This site contains information (metadata) on available datasets; a few small datasets are directly available.
<URL:http://www.esdim.noaa.gov>
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental
Information Services Home Page. This "master page" links to the Web
pages of the various NOAA Data Centers:
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) <URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/>
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) <URL:http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/>
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) <URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/>
You can search the NOAA dataset catalog, which covers all the NOAA Data
Centers. The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this
document.
<URL:http://eos.nasa.gov>
Home page for Earth Observing System (EOS). This "master page" links
to the home pages of the various Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs),
which provide data from EOS:
JPL Physical Oceanography DAAC <URL:http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov>
Marshall Space Flight Center DAAC <URL:http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov>
Goddard DAAC <URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html>
Earth Resources Observation Systems DAAC
<URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html>
National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC
<URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/>
Langley DAAC <URL:http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov>
Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC <URL:http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov>
NOAA's Satellite Active Archive <URL:http://www.saa.noaa.gov>
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
<URL:http://www.ciesin.org>
Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility
<URL:http://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/datacenters_documents/ASF_datacenter_doc.html>
The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this
document.
<URL:http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/earth_home.html>
National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) earth science archive page. A new policy from the Earth Sciences and Applications Division at NASA Headquarters directed NSSDC to distribute its holdings to various designated archives. NSSDC no longer archives any new Earth science data; this site describes the Earth science data transfer activities and provides selective data and resources available to users.
<URL:http://www-mel.nrlmry.navy.mil/>
Defense Modeling Simulations Office (DMSO) Master Environmental
Library (MEL). This site offers keyword searching of a directory of
all meteorological, oceanographic, and other environmental data at
Department of Defense sites such as the Fleet Numerical Oceanography
Center, Naval Research Laboratories, Air Force Global Weather Center,
etc.
<URL:http://www.grid.unep.ch/gridhome.html>
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Resource Information Database (GRID). Global and European datasets for environmental researchers, including vegetation and topography maps, maps of population and other human-related items, and various climatologies.
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Subject: 4) Climate and weather
<URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/>
<URL:telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov> (login "storm", password "research")
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of NOAA. Inventories and metadata for various climate datasets are available, along with selected datasets.
Monthly Climatic Data for the World for the last several years is available here in the directory <URL:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/mcdw/>.
This is a World Data Center A for meteorology.
<URL:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov>
The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research
Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time scales of months to centuries. CDC climatological data is archived in netCDF format. This site gives access to metadata (information about these datasets) which can be searched by various keywords; actual data must be ordered from CAC by email or fill-in forms.
<URL:http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov>
<URL:ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/>
Climate Prediction Center. Climate products and services consisting of operational prediction of climate variations, monitoring of the climate system and development of data bases for determining current global and regional climate anomalies and trends, and analysis of their origins and linkages to the complete climate system, including ENSO advisories and indices, and monthly mean and anomaly fields.
<URL:http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/DAAC_DOCS/gdaac_home.html>
Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). Data and related
services for global change research and education. Data holdings cover
information on the upper atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, and global
biosphere.
Products include data from Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), Total Ozone Mapping Satellites (TOMS), Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS), Pathfinder Advanced Very High Resolution (AVHRR) land sensor 4-Dimensional Assimilation dataset, Total Ozone Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Pathfinder data, Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) Field Observation experiment data.
<URL:http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's Climate Group's server. The "Data Library" contains various climatologies for the ocean and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice interactive system for selection and display of data.
<URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rbrbrn/awsproj.html>
<URL:http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrchome.html>
The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of
Wisconsin - Madison maintains archives of Antarctic data, including
synoptic reports and satellite images.
<URL:http://www.giss.nasa.gov/Data/>
<URL:ftp://ftp.giss.nasa.gov>
Various monthly mean data files, including surface temperature anomalies, grids of various variables used in the GCM II (General Circ. Model). Also various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation indices, wetland ecosystems.
The ftp machine can not be accessed using a WWW browser -- you must ftp directly. The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index. As of Feb 96,
the ftp server's data is somewhat outdated.
<URL:http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov>
ISCCP C2 cloud data from GISS. This data is no longer on the main
server, above.
<URL:http://strat-www.met.fu-berlin.de>
Free University of Berlin Stratospheric Research Group. Stratospheric data (heights and temperatures).
<URL:http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/longpdk/>
"The Long Paddock" Climatology of Australia with focus on Queensland.
Maps of monthly rainfall, SOI, SST. Information on drought and the
southern oscillation.
<URL:http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu:80/toga_atlas/>
Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and adjacent regions.
<URL:http://www.cyberus.ca/~sorokoj/>
Links to many paleoclimate resources.
<URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu>
Western Regional Climate Center
<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
Northeast Regional Climate Center
<URL:http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/sercc.html>
Southeast Regional Climate Center
<URL:http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html>
Southern Regional Climate Center
<URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/>
High Plains Regional Climate Center
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Subject: 5) Satellite data
<URL:http://www.saa.noaa.gov>
<URL:telnet://saa.noaa.gov>
NOAA's Satellite Active Archive is a digital library of real-time and
historical satellite data from NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES). Currently, AVHRR and TOVS data is available.
<URL:http://140.90.207.25:8080/EBB/ml/nic00.html>
NOAA Satellite Information System (NOAASIS) provides NOAA/NESDIS-operated satellite information for direct readout station operators and users of environmental satellite data. Limited information is provided for the satellites operated by other countries and enitities.
Includes general information about satellites, schedules, navigation
information, publications, and more.
Added <URL:http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/SOCC/SOCC_Home.html>
NOAA Office of Satellite Operations home page. Bulletins, basic
information, and other information.
<URL:http://www.dfd.dlr.de/>
The German Remote Sensing Data Center. Satellite images, data, and
other information.
<URL:http://eosims.asf.alaska.edu:12355/datacenters_documents/ASF_datacenter_doc.html>
Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility Home Page. SAR images and derived data, AVHRR and Landsat satellite imagery.
<URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP>
Info about, and sample data from the NOAA Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial physics environments.
<URL:http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) home page. Contains general
information on ozone, ozone satellite retrieval, and information about
Earth Probe/TOMS, Meteor-3, and Nimbus-7. Ozone movies and graphs
also available.
Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
(TOMS) ozone data is available via <URL:ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/>.
user is warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable for publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC.
<URL:gopher://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu>
<URL:ftp://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu>
The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) Pathfinder Data Set was generated at SSEC using full resolution GOES imagery from the Geostationary National Archive. Includes 8 km products, 70 km equal area statistics products, 24 km browse of the 8 km products, and 9 panel browse of the 70 km statistics from May 4, 1987 through November 30, 1988.
<URL:ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/>
Two-line element data (TLE) for a variety of satellites.
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Subject: 6) Hydrology and glaciology
<URL:http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov>
Marshall Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center (MSFC.DAAC).
Data holdings are primarily aimed at researchers investigating facets of the hydrologic cycle. Available data includes SSM/I NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Products, TOVS NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Path C1 Products, SSM/I Antenna Temperatures and Sensor Counts, and Climatological Summaries.
<URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NASA/GUIDE/>
The National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) maintains information about snow cover and avalanches, glaciers and ice sheets, floating ice, ground ice and permafrost, atmospheric ice, extra-terrestrial ices, paleoglaciology and ice cores. Also see the NSIDC home page at <URL:http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/>.
<URL:http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.nohrsc.nws.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub>
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. Snow cover
measurements in US and Canada, and snow water equivalent data.
<URL:http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/seaice/>
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Sea Ice home page.
Contents include the most recent automated sea ice analysis for both
hemispheres and ice drift forecast guidance.
<URL:http://www.dow.on.doe.ca/ice/home.ice.html>
Ice Services Branch of Environment Canada. Information about available products and services, and some sample data.
<URL:ftp://meds02.met.fu-berlin.de/pub/SEA-ICE/>
The Institute for Meteorology of the Free Uni Berlin provides
operation sea-ice maps. Text is mostly in German but there are some
English translations.
<URL:http://www.meto.umd.edu/~alan/soil_moisture/>
University of Maryland Global Soil Moisture Data Bank. A collection
of data, model output, and links to soil moisture information.
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Subject: 7) Environmental chemistry
<URL:http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov>
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive
Center (DAAC) provides information about the Earth's biogeochemical dynamics (the chemical interactions among the Earth's surface, water, and air that produce changes in the Earth and its climate) to the global change research community, policy makers, educators, and the general interested public.
<URL:http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov:80/cdiac/>
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) at ORNL provides information to help international researchers, policymakers, and educators evaluate complex environmental issues, including potential climate change associated with elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other radiatively active trace gases.
<URL:http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov>
<URL:telnet://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov> (login "ims", password "larcims")
The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and
distributes radiation budget, cloud, aerosol, and tropospheric chemistry data to the general science community. Data are available via FTP, tape and CD-ROM.
Products include data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), Surface Radiation Budget (SRB), International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE), First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE), and Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE).
<URL:http://www.epa.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.epa.gov>
Environmental Protection Agency. A variety of publicly-accessible
databases, including air pollution data, toxic chemical release data,
and geographic data.
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Subject: 8) Geophysical and mapping data
<URL:http://www.usgs.gov/data/index.html>
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data products, including cartographic data, geologic data, water data, and links to other USGS machines which hold data or metadata archives.
<URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/eros-home.html>
U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC). Aerial photography,
cartographic data, earth science data, hydrologic data, landuse/landcover data, radar data, satellite and satellite derivative data, topographic data.
<URL:http://sun1.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/landdaac.html>
Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (EDC.DAAC). Archives include land processes data, including satellite- and aircraft-acquired data: 1km AVHRR, Landsat Pathfinder data,
Digital Chart of the World Derived Digital Elevation Model Data (topographical charts), SIR-C/X-SAR (Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar).
<URL:http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/>
The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) of NOAA manages environmental data in the fields of solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and glaciology (snow and ice). In each of these fields it also operates a World Data Center (WDC A) discipline center. Data and metadata are available.
<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/geo.html>
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)'s catalog of geophysical and vegetation datasets. Several of these datasets are directly available via this page.
<URL:http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/apl-us>
<URL:gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/apl-us>
Shaded relief map of USA generated from 30 arc second DEM dataset.
<URL:ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/>
The Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS) has various mapping-related information, datasets, and software.
<URL:ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/>
Various USGS and other uncopyrighted data. Includes USGS DEM and DLG
files, land use information, and some software to read these files.
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Subject: 9) Instruments and field experiments
<URL:http://aprf.arl.mil>
<URL:ftp://aprf.arl.mil/pub>
Army Research Laboratory's Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility.
Real-time, hour-averaged, qc'd, surface to stratosphere profiles of wind, temperature, and optical/radar turbulence from the Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility, White Sands, New Mexico. Archives back through 1994.
This site is scheduled to close down in September 1996.
<URL:http://www.joss.ucar.edu/codiac>
UCAR Joint Office for Science Support. A large number of datasets from various field projects and research programs, including CEPEX, GCIP, STORM-FEST, TOGA-COARE, are available via "CODIAC" -- The Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalog.
<URL:telnet://kuda.atd.ucar.edu> (login "kuda", password "science")
Many types of atmospheric measurements and supporting data from the
Persian Gulf region during the Kuwait oil well fires (1991). Inventory
includes aircraft measurements of particulates, chemistry, radiation, and state parameters, surface-based meteorological, air quality, and radiation measurements, model output grids, and digital satellite images from NOAA and DMSP polar orbiters.
For more information, contact kuda...@kuda.atd.ucar.edu
<URL:http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/MAS/Home.html>
Information about, and data from, the MODIS Airborne Simulator multispectral scanner.
<URL:http://www.amps.gov>
The US Department of Energy's Airborne Multisensor Pod System (AMPS)
collects a variety of data from multiple sensors mounted on a modified
Lockheed RP-3A. Currently the sensors include Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR) and MultiSensor Imaging (MSI) pods; Effluent Species Identification (ESI) pod is currently under construction. Information about the AMPS project and data is available.
<URL:http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar>
Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) flew on space shuttle Endeavour on two missions in 1994. Images from these flights, and information about the instrument.
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Subject: 10) Oceanography
<URL:http://diu.cms.udel.edu>
<URL:gopher://diu.cms.udel.edu>
OCEANIC, the Ocean Information Center at the University of Delaware,
contains information about data collected for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). In addition OCEANIC has a searchable international research ship schedule database, a searchable directory of names/addresses/e-mail of scientists involved in WOCE, and numerous links to WOCE data facilities and other oceanographic information systems.
<URL:http://www.nodc.noaa.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.nodc.noaa.gov/>
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) of NOAA. The NODC holds
physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic data collected by U.S.
Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (primarily the U.S. Navy); state, and local government agencies; universities and research institutions; and private industry. A large percentage of the oceanographic data held by NODC is of foreign origin.
<URL:http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov>
<URL:ftp://ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov>
JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC).
Products available from PO.DAAC are largely satellite derived, and include:
sea-surface height, surface-wind vector (and sigma-nought), surface-wind speed, surface-wind stress vector, integrated water vapor, atmospheric liquid water, sea-surface temperature, sea-ice extent and concentration, heat flux, and in-situ data as it pertains to satellite data.
<URL:http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/>
NCEP Ocean Modelling Branch. Includes global wave model forecast and
sea ice information. Regional wave model output is available for
several regions. Fog model and sea ice information also available.
<URL:http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/ccs/about_datazoo.html>
<URL:gopher://gopher-ccs.ucsd.edu:70/11/zoo>
Scripps Institute of Oceanography Center for Coastal Studies (CCS)
"Data Zoo". Data collected by various California coastal data collection programs and studies.
<URL:http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/info/holdings.html>
Datasets from the the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research
Program, an operational arm of the national U.S. Global Change Research
Program (USGCRP). Modern average global SST and polar sea ice are
available.
<URL:http://www.pmel.noaa.gov>
NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory. Interactive access to a selection of ocean climatologies and real-time and historical TAO buoy data.
<URL:http://www-aviso.cls.cnes.fr>
AVISO - TOPEX/POSEIDON Home Page. Information on the French-American
TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite mission and the French active archive data center, AVISO/Altimetry. Other information on space oceanography related matters.
<URL:http://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/sst.html>
<URL:ftp://ftp.csr.utexas.edu/pub/sst>
Sea level anomalies are routinely computed using TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P)
Interim Geophysical Data Records (IGDRs) by the University of Texas
Center for Space Research (UT/CSR) as soon as the data for a complete
10-day repeat cycle are available, approximately 1 to 2 weeks after the
end of a cycle.
<URL:http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Atlas/SO/Deckblatt.html>
The Alfred Wegener Institute provides the Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean.
<URL:http://server.ices.inst.dk>
<URL:ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean>
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) server has several PC oceanographic products available, including a list of country codes and ship codes, and inventories of data profiles and research activities. For more information contact oc...@server.ices.inst.dk.
<URL:ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/>
East coast tidal heights and winds in "pub/Tidedata", QuickBasic
IBM-PC shareware to compute tides and currents in "pub/Tides", Luyten
& Stommel oceanographic atlas in "pub/LiveAtlas", and other related
items.
<URL:ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans>
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Acoustics Lab. Various oceanography-related Matlab stuff.
<URL:http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl>
Delft University of Technology. Sea surface altimetry atlas computed
from satellite data, satellite orbit determination, global windspeed and wave height from ERS-2.
<URL:http://www.ems.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wx/offshore.cgi>
Penn State University Offshore Weather Data Page. Offshore weather data from buoys, ships, and CMAN stations. 36-hour archive, updates every 15 minutes.
<URL:http://www.aodc.gov.au/Data_Inventory/table_of_contents.html>
The Australian Oceanographic Data Centre (AODC) maintains a database of mainly temperature and salinity profiles for the Australian Area of
Interest (30°N - 80°S; 20°E - 150°W), with limited quantities of in-situ data held outside of this region. Information about the datasets is available on the AODC server.
<URL:http://www.fnoc.navy.mil>
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. Interactive image generation of wave height analysis and forecasts, SST analysis and climatology. Information about the models used to generate the images is also available.
<URL:http://www.oceanweather.com/~oceanwx/data.html>
Global current marine observations and significant wave height map.
<URL:http://www.etl.noaa.gov/OTHdata.html>
<URL:ftp://netsrv.wpl.erl.gov/pub/et1/oth/>
NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory provides an archive of images of ocean surface wind direction for the North Atlantic Ocean from Over-the-Horizon (OTH) Radar. OTH-B was shut down by the Air Force on 4 April 1995 so there is no current data.
<URL:http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html>
The Remote Sensing Group in the Division of Meteorology and Physical
Oceanography of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Low resolution visible and infrared imagery is collected daily from the NOAA sun-synchronous polar orbiting satellites. Low resolution observations (4 km.) are collected globally while high resolution observations (1 km.) are collected from selected areas of research interest around the globe.
Oceanography pointers and indices:
<URL:http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/oceanography.html>
<URL:http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html>
<URL:http://www.whoi.edu/html/www-servers/oceanography.html>
<URL:http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html>
<URL:http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/other.html>
<URL:http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html>
<URL:http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/src_oceanography.html>
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Subject: 11) Miscellaneous data
<URL:http://www.ciesin.org>
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
Data about human interactions in global environmental change from many
sources.
<URL:http://www.sel.noaa.gov>
<URL:gopher://gopher.sel.noaa.gov>
NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory (SEL) server has information about the Sun and the environment between the Sun and the Earth, including "space weather" and solar images
<URL:ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/>
Viking, Magellan, and Voyager data, and various earth-from-space images and information.
<URL:http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/eclipse>
<URL:gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/eclipse>
MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse
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Subject: 12) Software and documentation
<URL:http://grads.iges.org/grads/head.html>
<URL:ftp://grads.iges.org>
The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies provides GrADS (Grid Analysis and Display System) software and documentation. GrADS is an interactive desktop tool for the analysis and display of earth science data.
<URL:gopher://140.90.5.206>
Information from the National Weather Service Telecommunication Gateway (NWSTG) of the National Weather Service (NWS), Systems Operations Center,about changes to data formats and transmissions information that has not yet been published in standard source documents, such as NWS manuals, WMO manuals, or other documents or announcements.
<URL:ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/wiscombe/>
A collection of scientific software written by Warren Wiscombe. Mostly atmospheric radiation-related: Mie code, discrete ordinates radiative transfer code, atmospheric thermodynamics code, and other programs.
<URL:http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/ocean_graphics.html>
Steve Baum's collection of information about, and links to, software
for graphical presentation and numerical analysis of oceanographical
and meteorological data.
<URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/>
The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks archives various radiative transfer and other software. The program uvspec, which calculates diffuse and direct uv and visible fluxes (radiance) and intensities (irradiance) at any altitude, is in <URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/arve/>.
<URL:ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/disort/> contains a general n-stream
radiative transport equation solver.
<URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
Unidata Program Center. Decoders for for SAO, METAR, RAOBs; WXP;
NetCDF; units converter; and other software available.
<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/dss/softlib/index.html>
<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/libraries/>
Various software and utilities, including Skew T log P charting software, GRIB decode software, grid interpolation codes, US standard atmosphere calculation.
<URL:ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/>
This FTP site at Florida State University is a repository for public domain software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric scientists.
<URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/software.html>
WeatherNet software archive. Many popular weather related shareware
and freeware programs, including WeatherGraphix, HurrTrk, RAOB, WxView,
Sharp, WinWeather, Blue-Skies.
<URL:ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/ccm/>
Code for the NCAR/CGD Community Climate Model.
<URL:ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/weather/>
wxgrfx41a.zip (shareware version of WeatherGraphix 4.1a, a weather plotting
and analysis program) and hurricane tracking software.
<URL:ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/hamradio/docs/ne-weather/programs/>
Various weather software for Mac and PC.
<URL:ftp://ftpnssl.nssl.noaa.gov/pub/skaggs>
Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program
<URL:http://www.liv.ac.uk/~mark/met.htm>
Humidity product calculator for Windows 95 and Dos.
<URL:http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/icd/wmc/decode-temps.html>
Radiosonde (TTAA, etc) decode program in perl/java
<URL:http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1030/atmcalc.html>
Javascript atmospheric variable calculator
<URL:http://thunder.ias.sdsmt.edu>
Interactive Radar Analysis Software (IRAS) package home page. IRAS is a free X-Windows based software tool which is used to display weather radar data.
<URL:http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html>
Scientific visualization software, Vis5D and VisAD.
<URL:ftp://ftp.erc.msstate.edu/pub/griblib.tar.Z>
GRIB decode in C
<URL:ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/libraries/GRIB/>
GRIB decode in Fortran
<URL:ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/info/>
BUFR decode in Fortran (various files for different platforms)
<URL:ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/dos/apps/demos/synoptic>
Program to decode SYNOP and RTTY Meteo AAXX/BBXX codes, for PCs.
<URL:http://www.nws.noaa.gov/metcode.htm>
Information on METAR and WMO codes
<URL:ftp://ftp.geog.ubc.ca/pub/jas.latex.dir>
LaTex Style file for JAS
<URL:http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/rms/qjrms.html>
<URL: ftp://ftp.met.rdg.ac.uk/pub/rms>
LaTex style sheet for the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
<URL:ftp://ftp.essc.psu.edu/pub/essc/jacobson/ametsoc.tar.gz>
BibTeX style (.bst) file and a LaTeX style (.sty) file for
AMS publications
<URL:http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/sci-data-formats/faq.html>
The FAQ for the Usenet newsgroup sci.data.formats. Includes pointers
to format descriptions and software for various data formats, including
several which are frequently used in the atmospheric sciences: CDF,
netCDF, HDF, GRIB. Also pointers to scientific visualization software.
<URL:http://www.cgd.ucar.edu:80/cas/tn404/>
NCAR Technical Note 404, An Introduction to Atmospheric and
Oceanographic Datasets. By Shea, Worley, Stern and Hoar; kept
updated on the web. Information about datasets and data types
available to the community.
Tom Berg
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Subject: 1) Table of contents
1) Table of contents
2) Overview
3) Books readable by English-reading nonprofessionals
4) Books readable by French-reading nonprofessionals
5) Magazines readable by nonprofessionals
6) Scientific Texts
7) Meteorological History
8) Journals
9) Professional Societies
Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.
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Subject: 2) Overview
This is a guide to resources for laypersons, students and professionals in
meteorology, oceanography, and related disciplines. This section of the
FAQ focuses on non-Internet resources -- books and journals rather than
WWW sites and newsgroups -- but there are occasional Internet references.
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Subject: 3) Books readable by English-reading nonprofessionals
"Where to Read about Climate Change" is a list of recommended books
and articles available at <URL:http://www.access.digex.net/~rmg3/scq.reading>.
"Clouds in a Glass of Beer -- Simple Experiments in Atmospheric
Physics" by Craig Bohren.
"What Light through Yonder Window Breaks", Craig Bohren.
"How to Build a Habitable Planet", Wallace Broecker
Microbursts: A Handbook for Visual Identification, Fernando Caracena et al.
(Second ed., Washinton: NOAA, 1990)
Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena, William Corliss (The Sourcebook Project, Glen Arm, MD, 1977) -- Collection of unusual weather
observations from popular and scientific press. To be taken with a
grain of salt.
"Storms" by William R. Cotton.
"Atmospheric Convection" by Kerry Emanuel, Oxford University Press, 1995
"Rainbows, Halos, and Glories", Robert Greenler (Cambridge University
Press, 1980) -- atmospheric optics
"Sunsets, twilights, and evening skies", Meinel & Meinel (Cambridge
University Press, 1983, New York) -- more atmospheric optics
"Color and Light in Nature", Lynch (Cambridge University Press, 1995,
New York) -- loaded with color photos of both atmospheric and astronomical
phenomena, reviewed in the 14 June 1996 _Science_
"Light and colour in the outdoors", M.G.J. Minnaert, Springer 1993,
ISBN 3540979352, 0387979352
"Lightning and its Spectrum: An Atlas of Photographs", Leon Salanave (Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1980)
"Peterson's Field Guide to the Atmosphere", (mostly) by Vincent
Shaeffer: A readable guide to many aspects of modern meteorology, with
excellent qualitative coverage of many topics (optical effects,
particles, clouds, precipitation) Dozens of good color pics, too.
(Rick Russel, reviewer)
"Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, the Year without a Summer", Henry
Stommel and Elizabeth Stommel (Newport, RI: Seven Seas Press, 1983)
"A View of the Sea", Henry Stommel, Princeton University Press, 1987.
"All About Lightning", Martin A. Uman (New York: Dover, 1986)
"Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights, and Related Luminous Phenomena",
Corliss, W.R., 1982. (Published and distributed by The Sourcebook
Project, P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057) Tel: (301) 668-6047
The Nature of Ball Lightning, S. Singer (New York: Plenum Press, 1971)
"Atmospheric Phenomena: Readings from Scientific American" (San Francisco:
WH Freeman, 1980)
"NOAA/NWS Advanced Spotter's Field Guide" (NOAA PA 92055) -- A new and pretty
slick 28 p. pamphlet; many photos of tornadoes and sever thunderstorms.
(Frank Reddy, reviewer)
"The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather"
"WEATHER MAPS - How to Read and Interpret all the Basic Weather Charts" Chaston Scientific, Inc., P.O. Box 758, Kearney, MO 64060 or email chast...@aol.com ($29, as of Jan 1997 -- second edition).
What I like about it from a teaching perspective is that all the
meteorological principles are included in the explanation of the weather maps. I particularly like the chapter on weather forecast models, because it explains the process in easy-to-understand, nonmathematical terms.
(Thomas Magnuson, reviewer)
"Hurricanes!" Written for non-meteorologists. Available Feb 1996 from Chaston Scientific, Inc., P.O. Box 758, Kearney, MO 64060 or email
chast...@aol.com ($29 as of Feb 1996).
"Will it Rain? The Effect of the Southern Oscillation and El Nino
on Australia", (2nd edition), Edited by I J Partridge. AUS$20, can
be ordered from DPI Publications, GPO Box 46, Brisbane 4001, Australia,
(07) 239 3100 phone, (07) 239 0860 fax.
This is a book for farmers, graziers, students and anyone else
interested in the weather and seasonal forecasting. It explains the Southern Oscillation and El Nino. This is a revised and much enlarged version of the original (1991) Will it rain?, and is a companion volume to the software package AUSTRALIAN RAINMAN.
Significant Tornadoes, 1680-1991 (with supplement for 1992-1995),
Tom Grazulis, 802/748-2505. 1350 pages.
The Severe Local Storm Forecasting Primer (second edition of Severe Local Storms Forecasting Environments) John S. Sturtevant.
A primer on forecasting techniques for Severe Local Storms. It includes Chart Analysis, Synoptic Situations, Indices Forecasting, Covers Radar, Satellite, Hail, Wind, Tornadoes, Flash Floods, Lightning, Geography, The
Future, An Appendix of Computer Weather Services and Weather Software and a Thunderstorm Parameter Worksheet. Available from Weather Scratch
Meteorological Services, 140 South Kirkman Street, Florence, Alabama
35630-4312, for $34.95 (checks made payable to Weather Scratch; or email the author at metse...@wxscratch.com or phone (205) 766-8464, fax
(205) 766-8464, WWW <URL:http://www.wxscratch.com>
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Subject: 4) Books readable by French-reading nonprofessionals
Gros Temps sur la Planéte, J.-C. Duplessy and P. Morel, Odile Jacob,
Paris, 1990
Glaces de l'Antarctique: une Mémoire, des Passions, C. Lorius, Odile
Jacob, Paris, 1990
Comprendre la météorologie: La prévision numérique du temps et du
climat. Michel Rochas, Jean-Pierre Javelle, Syros, Paris, 1994, 262 pp.
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Subject: 5) Magazines readable by nonprofessionals
AER, Meteorologia/Climatologia/Agrometeorologia/Ambiente (in Italian)
La Météorologie
La Recherche (sometimes)
Scientific American (occasionally)
Weather
email bru...@met.reading.ac.uk (Roger Brugge)
WeatherWatch
email WXCE...@AOL.COM
<URL:http://www.weatherstore.com/wxwatch.htm>
Weatherwise
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Subject: 6) Scientific Texts
A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology, by Jon M. Nese, Lee M.
Grenci, David J. Mornhinweg, and Timothy W. Owen. A textbook meant for
college-level introductory meteorology courses, designed to introduce
students to the behavior of the atmosphere and the fundamentals of
meteorology. Chapter introductions are available at
<URL:http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jnese/book.htm>
Meteorology Today, C. Donald Ahrens, West Publishing, St. Paul, 1991
(4th edition; there is now a 5th edition, presumably with a new copyright date of 1994.) "This is the book I used in my lower division weather class (in a geography department) and I found it to be excellent" (J. Trust)
Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning: Extreme Forms of Atmospheric Electricity, James Dale Barry (New York: Plenum, 1980)
Tracers in the Sea, W. S. Broecker and T.-H Peng, Eldigio Press, Palisades, NY, 1982.
T. J. Crowley and G. B. North, Paleoclimatology, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991.
The Ceaseless Wind - An Introduction to the Theory of Atmospheric
Motion John A. Dutton, Dover, 1976, 1986.
M. Ghil and S. Childress, Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics:
Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory and Climate Dynamics,
New York,Springer-Verlag, 1987.
Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics by Adrian E. Gill, 1982.
Atmospheric Change: an Earth System Perspective, T.E. Graedel and
P. J. Crutzen, Freeman, 1993.
"An introductory undergraduate textbook requiring very little background (freshman physics and chemistry; in fact most of the book is accessible to someone who has had good high school courses.) Lower-level than your other suggestions but very useful. Should be required reading for all netters :)." (Robert Parson, reviewer)
Theory of rotating fluids, by H. Greenspan
Climate Change 1992, James Houghton (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
A climate modelling primer, A. Henderson-Sellers and K. McGuffie.
Chichester ; New York : Wiley, c1987.
Climate System Modeling, edited by Kevin Trenberth, Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-521043231-6. "[This] is an extremely valuable contribution that goes well beyond previous texts in terms of comprehensive treatment of the climate system....including an introduction to the physical and human dimensions of the climate system, the components of the climate system (atmosphere, ocean, land surface), modeling and parameterization, system coupling and interactions, sensitivity experiments, and futur
e prospects....For those who want more than passing knowledge before applying model results, Climate System Modeling should be a reference of choice."
(from review by Eric J. Barron)
Climate and Development, Karpen, Otten and Trinidade eds., Springer 1990.
An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, James R. Holton (Academic
Press, New York, 2nd edition 1979, 3rd edition 1992
The Thunderstorm in Human Affairs, ed. by Edwin Kessler (3 vols.). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983
Lindzen, R. S. "Dynamics in Atmospheric Physics" (Cambridge University Press, 1990) "Application of simplified dynamics to the purpose of understanding some of the basic functioning of the atmosphere. Includes discussion of Hadley circulation, gravity waves, tides, climate. A collection of lecture notes, not a reference. Doesn't include an appendix (on purpose!)." (Perry G Ramsey -- reviewer)
Boundary Layer Climates, Tim R. Oke (Methuen, 1978, 1987)
Pedlosky, J. P. "Geophysical Fluid Dynamics" (Springer-Verlag, 1979, 1987)
J. P. Peixoto and A. H. Oort, Physics of Climate,
American Institute of Physics, New York, 1992"
(exists also in soft cover)
Descriptive Physical Oceanography 4th ed, G. L. Pickard and W. J. Emery, Pergamon Press, 1982.
Introductory Dynamical Oceanography 2nd ed., S. Pond and G. L. Pickard,
Pergamon Press, 1983.
Atmospheric Science an introductory survey J. M. Wallace and P. V.
Hobbs, Academic Press, 1977.
An introduction to three-dimensional climate modeling, Warren M.
Washington, Claire L. Parkinson. -- Mill Valley, CA : University
Science Books ; Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation, S.G. Philander, Academic Press, 1990, ISBN 0-12-553235-0
Chemistry of Atmospheres, Richard P. Wayne, 2nd Edition, Oxford 1991:
senior or 1st-year graduate level. "The necessary atmospheric dynamics
and chemical kinetics are covered in chapters 2 and 3, but some background in these subjects at sophomore or junior level is useful."
(Robert Parson, reviewer)
The Lightning Discharge, Martin A. Uman (New York: Academic Press, 1987)
Lightning, Martin A. Uman (New York: Dover, 1969)
Weather and Climate Responses to Solar Variations (Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1983)
Solar Variability, Weather, and Climate (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1982)
Trends '91: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Carbon Dioxide
Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- see the
Data FAQ for address). The book and data -- available on disk or via ftp -- are free. Trends '93 due out later this year. (Frank Reddy, reviewer)
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Subject: 7) Meteorological History
The History of Meteorology: To 1800, H. Howard Frisinger (Boston:
American Meteorological Society, 1983)
A History of the Theories of Rain, W. E. Knowles Middleton (New York:
Franklin Watts, 1965)
A History of the Thermometer, W. E. Knowles Middleton (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Press, 1966)
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Subject: 8) Journals
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
edited by: Dr. W. E. Reifsnyder, P.O.Box 739, Questa NM 87556 USA
Annales Geophysicae
Annals of Glaciology
Atmospheric Environment
Atmosphere-Ocean
Australian Meteorological Magazine
Boundary-layer Meteorology
published by D. Reidel Pub. Co., Dordrecht, Holland
Bollettino Geofisico of the Italian Geophysical Society (Italian and English)
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Climate Change
Climate Dynamics
Deep Sea Research
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
EOS
Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Geophysical Research Letters
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Il Nuovo Cimento C, Geophysics and space physics
published in Bologna Italy, by Editrice Compositori, Via Castiglione 101
Int. J. Biometeorology
published by: Springer Verlag New York, Service Center Secaucus, 44 Hartz
Way, Secaucus NJ 07094 USA
Int. J. Climatology
J. Applied Meteorology
J. Atmospheric Science
J. Climate
J. of Fluid Mechanics
J. of Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
J. Geophysical Research
J. Glaciology
J. Marine Research
J. Oceanic and Atmospheric Technology
J. Physical Oceanography
J. of the Meteorological Society of Japan
Marine Geology
Meteorological Applications
published by the Royal Meteorological Society
Meteorologische Zeitschrift (English and German)
published by: Gebrueder Borntraeger, Johannesstrasse 3a, D-70176 Stuttgart,
Germany
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Monthly Weather Review
National Weather Association Digest
Nature
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (European Geophysical Society)
Ocealologica Acta
Paleoceanography
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Quaternary International
Quaternary Research
Remote Sensing of the Environment (Elsevier)
Reviews of Geophysics
Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics
Science
Solar Energy
Tellus
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
published by: Springer Verlag, Sachsenplatz 4-6, A-1210 Wien, Austria
Weather and Forecasting
Wetter und Leben (Weather and Life; in German)
edited by: OEsterreichische Gesellschft fuer Meteorologie, Hohe Warte 38,
A-1190 Wien, Austria
There are a few journal-related resources on the WWW:
<URL:http://www-cmpo.mit.edu/met_links/index.html> is an index to Internet-
accessible supplements to published papers. Such supplements include
datasets, plots, source code, and so on.
<URL:http://www.gfdl.gov/~smg/pointers/announcement.html> is an introduction
to the "eprint archive" (electronic preprints) coordinated by GFDL
for the atmospheric science community.
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Subject: 9) Professional Societies
American Meteorological Society
<URL:gopher://atm.geo.nsf.gov/11/AMS>
American Geophysical Union
<URL:http://www.agu.org/>
Association professionelle des meteorologistes du Quebec
<URL:http://www.phy.uqam.ca:2000/apmq/apmq.html>
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
PO Box 654E, Melbourne 3001, Australia
Fax: (03) 669 4695
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS).
Phone: 819-990-0300
email: c...@physics.carleton.ca
Dansk Meteorologisk Selskab
c/o Copenhagen University, Geofysisk Afdeling
Haraldsgade 6, DK-2200 Copenhagen N
Phone: +45 35 32 0567
Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft (German Meteorological Society)
DMG Sekretariat, Mont Royal, D-56841 Traben-Trarbach Germany
Phone: (+49 6571) 59 12
<URL:http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/deutsch/DMG/index.html>
European Geophysical Society
PB 49, Max-Planck-Str 1 D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau
Phone: (+49 5556) 1440,
Fax: (+49 5556 4709)
email: e...@linax1.dnet.gwde.de
International Glaciological Society
Irish Meteorological Society
c/o Irish Meteorological Service, Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9, Ireland
Japanese Society of Snow and Ice
Phone:+81-3-3261-2339
Fax: +81-3-3262-1923
Meteorological Society of Japan
Phone: +81-3-3212-8341 ext.2546
Fax: +81-3-3216-4401
National Weather Association -- operational meteorologists and oceanographers
Phone: 205-213-0388
email: natwe...@aol.com
The Oceanography Society
OEsterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Meteorology
Hohe Warte 38, A-1190 Wien, Austria
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Ringlaan 3, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium
tel.: ++32-2-3730501
<URL:http://estirm2.oma.be>
Royal Meteorological Society
104 Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7LJ, UK
Phone: 01734 568500 (from within UK)
Fax: 01734 568571 (from within UK)
<URL:http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/rms/rms.html>
Société météorologique de France
2, avenue Rapp 75 340 Paris Cedex 07
Tom Berg
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Subject: 1) Table of contents
1) Table of contents
2) Overview
3) Weather data
4) Research data
5) Miscellaneous CDs
Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.
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Subject: 2) Overview
CD-ROMs tend to be relatively expensive, but can hold as much as 600 megabytes of data. Prices may be outdated, so be sure to inquire from the provider for current prices. Prices for some discs are not known. Some discs are provided with driving software. Most of the software is for IBM-PC or compatible systems, but some is available for the Macintosh, and, increasingly, for Unix systems.
Some of these listings are not for CD-ROMs, but are for floppies or
tapes. These are listed here, rather than in the section on data available on other media, because they have been prepared as a package. For non-prepackaged data requests, see the data centers listed in the FAQ section Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data.
Commercial sources are flagged as such. Inclusion of a commercial
source in this listing does not imply endorsement.
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Subject: 3) Weather data
Climate Change Data ($950, or 595 pounds sterling from UK source):
Monthly 5-degree surface temperature anomaly grids 1854-1990, pressure grids 1873-1990. Monthly world temperature data at about 3500 stations and precipitation data at about 6500 stations, for period of record (long).
Retrieval and mapping software included, available for various systems.
Contact: Dr. Phil Jones, Climatic Research Unit, University of East
Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom. Distributed in North America by Chadwyck-Healey Inc.,1101 King St, Alexandria, VA 22314. 800/752-0515.
World Weather Disc ($295):
Monthly temp, precip, pressure, sunshine data for about 2000 world stations for period of record. Daily weather data at hundreds of US stations. Data for some stations on temp, precip, freeze, drought, soil moisture, wind, storms. Frequency and movement of tropical cyclones.
Contact: Cliff Mass, Dept. of Atmos. Sci. (AK40), University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. 206/685-0910.
National Climate Information Disc Volume 1 ($120):
Monthly temperature, precipitation, Palmer Hydrological Drought Index for 344 climate divisions of US. Data can be viewed in tabular or graphical format.
The disc covers the period 1895-1989 and contains 1032 time-series graphs, 4180 maps, and 5400 frames of video animation.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Attn: Climate Services Branch, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801-5001. 704/271-4800, fax 704-271-4876, email ord...@ncdc.noaa.gov. Add $5 service charge per order.
SAMSON (Solar and Meteorological Surface Observational Network)
(3 disks, $120 each or $360 for the set):
The three CD-ROMs are divided geographically into regions: eastern,
central, and western U.S., and contain hourly solar radiation data along with selected meteorological elements for the period 1961-1990. It encompasses 237 NWS stations in the United States, and also includes Guam and Puerto Rico. The dataset includes both observational and modelled data. The hourly solar elements are: Extraterrestrial horizontal and extraterrestrial direct normal radiation; global, diffuse, and direct normal radiation.
Meteorological elements are: Total and opaque sky cover, temperature and dew point, relative humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed, visibility, ceiling height, present weather, precipitable water, aerosol optical depth, snow depth, days since last snowfall, and hourly precipitation. Joint NCDC and NREL product, available for DOS only.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
CLIVUE CD-ROM ($120):
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) developed a CD-ROM in support of a museum exhibit which traveled across the U.S. The CD contains a 1,500-station subset of NCDC's nearly 8,000 U.S. daily cooperative stations.
The user selects a date and area of the U.S. and the CD-ROM database is
queried for stations within the specified domain having data. Then, the system displays daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, and snowfall for the site. Graphs showing 7 years, 21 years, and the full period of record (varies by station) for the station(s) are available. Visual displays allow users to view trends, variability, and extremes.
This is a joint NCDC and Franklin Institute product, available for DOS only.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
International Station Meteorological Climate Summary (ISMCS) v. 3.0 ($120)
This CD-ROM gives detailed climatological summaries for 2200 locations worldwide. These locations include National Weather Service stations, domestic and overseas Navy and Air Force sites, and numerous foreign stations.
Limited summaries are also given for approximately 5000 additional worldwide sites. Tabular or statistical data can be exported to a printer or spreadsheet.
Version 3.0 supports mouse capability and allows users to graph selected tables. Joint NCDC, USAF and U.S. Navy product. DOS only.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
U.S. Navy Marine Climatic Atlas of the World Ver 1.1 ($120):
This CD-ROM includes analysis and display software for climatological
averages of atmospheric and oceanographic data. The data are summarized with user-defined 1 and 5 degree grid areas covering the global marine environment.
The summaries are produced using predominately ship data collected between 1854-1969. The major elements include air and sea temperature, dewpoint temperature, scalar wind speed, sea- level pressure, wave height, wind and ocean- current roses. This CD also allows the user to define element intervals (e.g. 5 to 10 knots, 2 degree temperature intervals). Contouring for explicitly user-defined regions and exporting data to a printer or diskette are supported.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
Global Historical Fields (GHF) Vers 1.0. ($120):
This version has no data for the Southern Hemisphere. This CD-ROM allows users to view daily surface charts for the period 1899 through April 1994.
Daily upper air charts (700mb, 500mb, 300mb) are available from the late 1940's through April 1994. Surface charts contour sea level pressure only (not station plots); upper air charts contour geopotential heights and temperatures. Charts can be contoured, looped, and exported to a file or printer. Joint NCDC and U.S. Navy product, DOS only.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
U.S. Divisional and Station Climatic Data and Normals (USDS) v 1.0 ($120):
This NCDC CD-ROM contains a collection of ASCII text data and documentation files that pertain to the U.S climate normals and by-products of the normals.
Climatic variables include temperature, precipitation, degree days, and
Palmer Drought Indices. The current normals period of 1961-1990 is covered with monthly values calculated for approximately 6600 precipitation and 4700 temperature stations. The earlier data/normals are provided for comparison and research applications.
This CD-ROM contains no software or extraction routines that allow users to import the data directly into spreadsheets or other applications. Format and description of the files match NCDC magnetic tape series TD-9640 and TD-9641.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
NCDC Cooperative Station Data ($120 per volume, $1500 for complete set):
21 volume CD-ROM set containing TD-3200 cooperative station data. Major elements include daily high and low temperatures, daily rainfall, daily snowfall and snow depth, and evaporation. General period of record is 1948-1993, but longer for selected stations. There are approximately 8000 active stations in the dataset. Historically, approximately 23,000 stations are included for various years. States are grouped geographically into volume numbers. The set contains inventories, station histories, and
ASCII data files. Joint NCDC and ARL project.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
Hourly Modeled Sounding Data. ($480, sold as set only):
This 12 volume CD-ROM set contains hourly 80 KM modeled gridpoint U.S. sounding data for 1990. This data is the output from the Penn State University MM4 model which used available daily sounding data for 1990 as input. Wind, temperature, dewpoint depression, and geopotential height data for 8 standard and 15 variable levels are included in the NWS TTAA, TTBB format. Joint NCDC and ARL product. Requires 544K of RAM, DOS only.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
Meteosat Images on CD-ROM, 1986 to 1991 (price on request):
One full-disk infra-red image per day (usually at 12h00 UTC), one visible
image on day 1 of each month (at the same time as the infra-red image), one
water-vapour image on day 1 of each month of 1991 (at the same time as the
infra-red and visible image). Images of the snow storm over the East coast
of the USA on 12&13 March 1993 (from meteosat-3 at 75 degrees East). Images
of Kuwait during the Gulf war. Full-disk Images taken by Meteosat-3 at 75
degrees East at the beginning of March 1993.
Contact: J. Le Ber, Meteosat Data Service, European Space Agency,
Robert Bosch Str. 5, D6100 DARMSTADT GERMANY
High Resolution Climatology ($199/variable): *COMMERCIAL* (Floppy disk)
Average monthly climatological values of maximum temperature, minimum
temperature, and precipitation for every 1 square km of the conterminous US for the 30-year periods 1951-1980 and 1961-1990. The data are stored as a rectangular matrix for each state. Digitized state and county political boundaries are included and referenced to the climate data sets. The data are in raster form as ASCII or 16-bit binary integers. This dataset is distributed on 5.25" or 3.5" floppy disks.
Contact: ZedX, Inc., P.O. Box 404, Boalsburg, PA 16827-0404.
814/466-2025.
US Summary of Day (4 disks, prices vary): *COMMERCIAL*
NCDC Summary of Day data, USGS streamflow data, retrieval and analysis software.
Contact: Hydrosphere, Inc., 1002 Walnut, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80302 800/949-4937, 303/443-7839
Atlas of Global Instrumental Climate Data - Version 1.0 ($30):
Color-shaded and contoured images of global gridded instrumental data, with each image simultaneously depicting anomaly maps of surface temperature, sea level pressure, and 500 millibar geopotential heights and percentages of reference period precipitation. Monthly, seasonal, and annual composites are available, in either cylindrical equidistant, or northern and southern hemisphere polar projections. Temperature maps are available from 1854 to 1991, precipitation maps from 1851 to 1989, sea level press
ure maps from 1899 to 1991, and 500 mb height maps from 1946 to 1991. All images are GIF files (1024 x 822 pixels, 256 color). Shareware for viewing GIF images is also available on the CD-ROM.
Contact: Frank Keimig, Department of Geology and Geography, Box 35820,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-5820. 413/545-0659,
email fr...@climate1.geo.umass.edu
Historical Soviet Daily Snow Depth CD-ROM ($50):
Historical Soviet Daily Snow Depth is based on observations at a
series of 284 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) stations throughout the Former Soviet Union. The earliest operational stations began recording snow depth in 1881 and the data continues until 1985. Geographic distribution of stations is primarily in the mid latitudes of Eurasia and correspond to inhabited areas. Stations range from 35 to 75 degrees north latitude and from 20 to 180 degrees west longitude. Stations range in altitude from -15 meters to 2100 meters.
Daily data, as well as NSIDC-generated monthly means, are available
on a single CD-ROM containing ASCII data files, extraction software, and data documentation. The source of the data used is the State
Hydrometeorological Service in Obninsk, Russia. Data were provided to NSIDC via the Bilateral US-USSR WG-8 Exchange. Production of this CD-ROM was funded by the NOAA Earth Science Data and Information (ESDIM) Initiative through the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC).
Contact: NSIDC User Services, National Snow and Ice Data Center,
CIRES - Campus Box 449, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0449.
303/492-6199, FAX 303/492-2468, email: ns...@kryos.colorado.edu, Omnet: NSIDC.
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Subject: 4) Research data
NMC gridpoint dataset ($150):
Twice daily grids for the Northern Hemisphere at a resolution of about 381 km.
Contact: National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307. 303/497-1219, email data...@ncar.ucar.edu.
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) discs:
Various discs available, including: Gulf of Mexico GLORIA data,
Geophysics of North America, global ecosystems, global topography,
gravity data, solar activity, and more. A catalog and price list are
available via gopher or ftp (see part 1).
Contact: NGDC, 325 Broadway E/GC4, Dept. 894, Boulder, CO 80303.
303/497-6958, email in...@ngdc.noaa.gov.
Global Ocean Temperature and Salinity (2 discs, $80 each or $124/both)
Temperature and salinity in the world ocean for about 1900-1990, based on all available XBTs, MBTs, BTs, etc.
Contact: National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA/NESDIS E/OC21,
Washington, DC 20235. 202/606-4549.
Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas (GUACA) ($240 for set):
This two-volume CD-ROM set uses a 12-year (1980-1991) 2.5 degree upper air data base obtained from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). This CD presents upper air statistics for 15 vertical levels in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere for dry bulb and dewpoint temperature, geopotential height, air density, and vector and scalar wind speed. The disc provides access/display software for gridpoint data, contouring capability for user-defined areas, and vertical profiles.
The climatology covers the 12-year period as well as individual year-months.
This is a joint NCDC and U.S. Navy product. DOS only. An ASCII data
CD-ROM (no graphic interface) is also available at a cost of $120.00.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Attn: Climate Services Branch, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801-5001. 704/271-4800, fax 704-271-4876, email ord...@ncdc.noaa.gov. Add $5 service charge per order.
Radiosonde Data of North America 1946-1994. ($480):
Contains all available radiosonde data for North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean Islands) through the 100-mb level on four disks.
Disk periods are 1946-1965, 1966-1979, 1980-1989, and 1990-1994. Data
includes significant, mandatory, and special wind levels for all observation times and includes geopotential height, temperature, dew point and wind direction, and scalar speed. The user can select for output to printer, screen, or file, a single station or multiple stations for a defined time period, or all stations within a specified geographic region in either synoptic or station sort. The CD also contains available station metadata.
Software is available to access the data for DOS, UNIX and VMS computer systems. This is a joint NCDC and ERL product. The latest single CD-ROM (1990-1994) is also available separately for 120.00.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
Global Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Climatic Atlas (GTECCA) ($120):
This CD-ROM contains all global historic tropical storm track data
available for five tropical storm basins. Periods of record varies for each basin, with the beginning as early as the 1870s and with 1992 at the latest year. Northern hemispheric extratropical storm track data will be included from 1965 to 1992. Tropical track data includes time, position, storm stage (maximum wind, central pressure when available). The user can display tracks,
track data for any basin or user-selected geographic area, or tracks passing within a user-defined radius of any point. Narratives for all tropical storms for the 1980-1992 period will be included as well as basin-wide tropical storm climatological statistics.
Joint NCDC and U.S. Navy product, available for DOS only.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
Global Daily Summary (GDS) ($120):
This CD-ROM provides access to a 10,000-station set of daily maximum/minimum temperature, daily precipitation, and 3-hourly present weather for the 1977-1991 period of record. Data can be selected for viewing or output to file for geographic areas or by a predefined user-selected list of stations.
The dataset includes element flags for suspected erroneous data. A data inventory contains station name, latitude/longitude, elevation, period of record, and the number of observations of available data.
Available for DOS only: requires a bare minimum of 4 MB of RAM, with 8MB of RAM recommended for superior performance.
Contact: National Climatic Data Center, see above.
GALE dataset (price not known):
GALE (Genesis of Atlantic Lows), 1/15/86-4/15/86: ship data, raobs,
aircraft, radar, etc off N Carolina coast. Available through Dept. of
Atmos. Sci. (AK40), University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
ERICA dataset ($35):
ERICA (Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic), 12/1/88-2/26/89: rawinsondes, aircraft, radar, buoys, satellite data, etc.
Contact: C. Kreitzberg, Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science,
Philadelphia, PA 19104. (215) 895-2726, krei...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu.
GEDEX (Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment)(price not known):
Two discs containing surface, upper air, and/or satellite-derived
measurements of temperature, solar irradiance, clouds, greenhouse
gases, fluxes, albedo, aerosols, ozone, and water vapor, along with
Southern Oscillation Indices and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation statistics.
Many of the data sets provide global coverage. The spatial resolutions
vary from zonal to 2.5 degree grids. Some surface station data sets
span more than 100 years; most satellite-derived sets cover only the
past 12 years. Temporal coverage is monthly for most sets.
Contact: NCDS/Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center, Code 935,
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771. 301/286-3209, email
daa...@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov
A more complete description of these discs may be obtained from
the ncardata.ucar.edu FTP site, in the file "other_resources/gedex".
HCDN (Hydro-climatic data network) streamflow dataset (price not known):
Contains dataset, search software, and USGS Open-File Report 92-129
(Slack, J.R., and Landwehr, J.M., 1992, Hydro-climatic data network (HCDN):
A U.S. Geological Survey streamflow data set for the United States for the study of climate variations, 1874-1988).
Contact: USGS, National Water Data Exchange (NAWDEX), MS 421 - National Center, Reston VA 22092.
The principal author of this dataset, James R. Slack, can be reached via email at jrs...@qvarsa.er.usgs.gov.
The information on the CD-ROM is also available via anonymous FTP
from srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov in the directory "hcdn92".
The following 6 discs/disc sets are available from NSIDC User Services,
National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES - Campus Box 449, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0449. 303/492-6199, FAX 303/492-2468,
email: ns...@kryos.colorado.edu, Omnet: NSIDC.
DMSP F8 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Brightness Temperature
Grids for the Polar Regions (Price on request):
18 CD-ROM discs contain daily gridded brightness temperature (Tb) for
the north and south polar regions (areas where sea ice occurs), on polar stereographic grids, 9 July 1987 through 31 December 1991. Each CD-ROM contains approximately 3 months of data. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F8 platform carried this first functional SSM/I instrument.
The SSM/I is a 7-channel, 4-frequency, linearly polarized, passive
microwave radiometric system; channels are 85.5 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 37.0 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 22.2 GHz Vertical, 19.3 GHz Vertical/Horizontal.
Fortran program provided on diskette to extract single channel from
inter-leaved storage format. Images can be displayed using IDL or other Unix or PC software. For 1992 and later data, see DMSP F11 SSM/I Brightness Temperature Grids for the Polar Regions, below.
Contact NSIDC, information above.
DMSP F8 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Sea Ice Concentration Grids for the Polar Regions 1987 - 1991. (Price on request):
DMSP F8 SSM/I Ice Concentration Grids for the Polar Regions consist of daily first-year, multi-year, and total ice concentration on 25 x 25 km polar stereographic grids for north and south polar regions. SSM/I sea ice CD-ROMs contain two sets of grids, 1) NASA Team algorithm; 2) J.C. Comiso algorithm. Orbital antenna temperatures are processed to gridded brightness temperatures and then used to derive gridded ice concentrations. The SSM/I sensor flies on U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program (DMSP) platforms; the first operational SSM/I (Special Sensor Microwave/Imager) was that on DMSP F8. Two CD-ROMs contain all F8 SSM/I ice concentrations, 9 July 1987 - 31 December 1991. North polar files are 137202 bytes, south polar are 105922 bytes.
Data are in HDF format and can be read using software from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA), available by anonymous ftp from NCSA (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) or with commercial packages such as IDL.
The SSM/I is a 7-channel, 4-frequency, linearly polarized, passive microwave radiometric system: 85.5 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 37.0 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 22.2 GHz Vertical, 19.3 GHz Vertical/Horizontal. DMSP F11 SSM/I ice concentrations for 1992 and later dates will be produced starting in late 1994, after the ice algorithms have been modified for F11 data.
Contact NSIDC, information above.
DMSP F11 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Brightness Temperature Grids for the Polar Regions. (Price on request):
CD-ROM discs contain daily gridded brightness temperature (Tb) for the north and south polar regions (areas where sea ice occurs), on polar stereographic grids, beginning on 3 December 1991. Each CD-ROM contains approximately 3 months of data in single-channel files, in HDF (Hierarchical Data Format). As of 8/94, 5 volumes cover 12/91 - 2/93. Inquire for latest available data.
Software to read and manipulate the data in HDF is available via ftp from National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA): ftp to
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu; help is available from NCSA at hel...@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Data can also be displayed and manipulated using commercial packages such as IDL.
The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F11 platform carries this SSM/I instrument, a 7-channel, 4-frequency, linearly polarized, passive microwave radiometric system; channels are 85.5 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 37.0 GHz Vertical/Horizontal, 22.2 GHz Vertical, 19.3 GHz Vertical/Horizontal.
This product uses the same grid and projection as the NSIDC DMSP F8 SSM/I brightness temperature and sea ice concentration CD-ROMs (1987 - 1991, see above).
Contact NSIDC, information above.
Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) Polar Radiances and Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentrations, 1978 - 1987. (Price on request):
Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) Polar Radiances and
Sea Ice Concentrations on CD-ROM contain gridded brightness temperatures (Tb) and sea ice concentrations for 10/78 - 8/87 (the life of the Nimbus-7 SMMR scanner) for both polar regions on 12 CD-ROMs. Data were collected at 6.60, 10.69, 18.00, 21.00 and 37.00 GHz in an alternate-day operating pattern due to spacecraft power limitations. [NOTE: Input data set is SMMR TCT tapes; this is different from the previous SMMR CD-ROM product distributed by NSIDC in 1989.] Tb (in Kelvins) and sea ice concentration
(in percent) grids have 25 x 25 km grid elements in polar stereographic projection.
Volume 7 contains all SMMR sea ice concentrations for both polar regions, plus 5 months of Tb grids for the north polar region. The Tb grids are stored as 16-bit integers; one day of Tb data is 0.27 mbytes for the north polar region, 0.21 mbytes for the south. Ice grids are stored as 8-bit integers, each file = 136192 bytes for the north, 104912 bytes for the south.
The NASA Team Algorithm (Cavalieri et al., 1984; Gloersen and Cavalieri, 1986) was used to calculate ice concentrations from the Tbs. Data produced by Dr. P. Gloersen, NASA/GSFC, Oceans and Ice Branch.
Documentation is provided on the CD-ROMs, in a hard-copy User's Guide, and in the "SMMR Atlas", NASA Special Report SP-511 (Gloersen, et al., 1992.)
Contact NSIDC, information above.
Historical Arctic Rawinsonde Archive (HARA), 1947-1987. (Price on request):
The Historical Arctic Rawisonde Archive on CD-ROM, volumes 1-3, contains over 1.2 million vertical soundings of temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind, representing all available rawisonde ascents from Arctic land stations poleward of 65 degrees North from the beginning of record through 1987. For most stations the record begins in 1958, a few begin in 1947 or 1948. The data are one file per year per station. Coverage is relatively uniform, except in the interior of Greenland. Typically 20-40 leve
ls are available in each sounding.
Documentation is provided on the CD-ROM volumes, and in hard copy (NSIDC Special Report 2, 1992). Software (Fortran and C) is provided on the CD-ROM volumes to retrieve a subset of the sounding data.
Data for 1988-1990, and monthly averaged data, will be distributed in late 1994. Sounding data were obtained from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of NOAA in Asheville, North Carolina. Data from drifting ice islands, ships and aircraft dropsondes are being assembled as a separate archive.
Contact NSIDC, information above.
Eastern Arctic Ice, Ocean and Atmosphere Data, Volume 1, CEAREX-1 ($50):
Contains sea ice acceleration, deformation and stress; hydrography
(CTDs); meteorology; bathymetry; acoustics and ambient noise (sample
data) from Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX). Includes
meteorology from Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (MIZEX), 1983, 1984, 1987. Experiment location: Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard; Fram Strait, September 1988 - May 1989. Amount of data: 460 mbytes.
Data format: ASCII files. Associated software: none. Additional volumes are planned; content not yet determined.
Contact NSIDC, information above.
NWS/NOHRSC snow cover data ($50 each year):
Airborne snow water equivalent and satellite areal extent of snow cover data for 1990-1993 are now available on CD-ROM for major portions of the U.S., Alaska, and Canada. The CD-ROMs include: (1) airborne snow water equivalent data and the digitized flight line network, (2) calibrated AVHRR and GOES satellite data used to map snow cover, (3) the classified snow cover images (4) national and regional snow cover image products, and (5) ancillary data sets including digital elevation data, digitized NWS bas
in boundaries, and the alphanumeric results of the satellite snow cover mapping by basin and by elevation zone.
Contact: CD-ROM Snow Cover Data, National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC), National Weather Service, NOAA,
1735 Lake Drive West, Chanhassen, Minnesota 55317-8582
612/361-6610, FAX 612/361-6634, email t...@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov (Tim Szeliga) dial-up bbs 612/361-6632
STORM-FEST data (3 discs, price unknown):
Data from the STORM-FEST experiment -- surface observations and rawinsonde, satellite, radar, NOWRAD, and profiler data -- plus Zeb software for viewing the data.
Contact Steve Williams, s...@ncar.ucar.edu.
AVHRR monthly global MCSST / CZCS data (5 discs, price on request)
The AVHRR MCSST and CZCS phytoplankton pigment concentration data set
contains monthly averaged sea-surface temperatures (day and night) derived from NOAA satellite AVHRR which are temporally and spatially coregistered with phytoplankton pigment concentration data acquired from the CZCS instrument on Nimbus-7. The CZCS data cover 1978-1986 and AVHRR data cover the period from 1981-1986, giving 5 years of coregistered data.
Contact: PO.DAAC at JPL. Contact the User Services Office at
pod...@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov for more details.
TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter merged geophysical data record (Price on request)
Global coverage data from the TOPEX/POSEIDON mission from both the U.S. and French altimeters with high precision orbits and environmental corrections.
The data are distributed on CD-ROMs (ISO 9660) and in an integer format usable on VAX, UNIX, PCs, and Macs. Each CD-ROM contains two ten-day cycles of data, precision orbit, and cross-over files for each cycle and read software for VAX and UNIX. As of May '94 cycles 1-52 exist on CD-ROM.
Contact: PO.DAAC, information above.
TOGA related satellite and in-situ data CD-ROM '85-'90. (Price on request).
PO.DAAC has produced a set of seven CD-ROMs which contain satellite,
in-situ, and model derived data pertaining to atmospheric and oceanographic parameters. Parameters include ocean currents, sea-surface temperature and salinity, air temperature and pressure, cloud, and precipitation. Software will be included. The data have been provided by agencies worldwide. (Available in June '94.)
Contact: PO.DAAC, information above.
Software atlas and plotting tool for oceanographic sections (diskettes)
ATLAST, a PC software atlas and plotting tool for oceanographic sections (Rhines) OCEANATLAS, a Macintosh software atlas and plotting tool for oceanographic sections (Swift et al.) are available on diskettes.
Contact: PO.DAAC, information above.
TOGA/COARE GMS-4 images (2 discs, $75 for the set):
GMS-4 images during the TOGA/COARE Intensive Observation Period
(November 1992 to March 1993) regridded over 135E - 175E, 10S - 10N,
5km square pixel size. 1910 infrared and 877 visible images of albedo and brightness temperature with overlays of the geographic grid and the
positions of moorings and ships. Images are in compressed PostScript
format but tools are included to uncompress and convert the data
into other formats.
Contact: Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, University of Hawaii, 1000
Pope Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. The check should be made to the order
of "RCUH".
Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Global Datasets (price not known):
Contains Version 1.1 SRB shortwave products for the period March
1985 through December 1988 as produced by the World Climate Research
Programme's (WCRP) SRB Satellite Data Analysis Center (SDAC).
Inputs to the Version 1.1 product are results from the International
Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and the Earth Radiation
Budget Experiment (ERBE). SDAC uses two methods (known as the
Pinker and Staylor algorithms) to estimate surface downward and
net irradiances, surface albedo, downward direct/diffuse ratio,
surface cloud forcing, and daylight cloud fraction. In addition,
various other radiation, cloud, meteorological and diagnostic
parameters are provided to aid the user in understanding variations
in the SRB parameters.
The SRB CD-ROM has been formatted and produced to work with IBM PCs,
Apple Macintoshes and Unix systems with ISO-9660 CD-ROM driver support.
In addition, read and display software for IBM PCs and Apple Macintoshes
are available upon request.
Contact: Langley DAAC User Services, MS 157B, NASA Langley Research
Center, Hampton, VA, 23681-0001. (804)864-8656, user...@eosdis.larc.nasa.gov
SAM II Aerosol Data (no cost):
Contains Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement (SAM) II data collected from October 1978 - January 1993, documentation, and read software. The SAM II instrument, aboard the Earth-orbiting Nimbus-7 spacecraft, was designed to measure solar irradiance attenuated by aerosol particles in the Arctic and Antarctic stratosphere. The scientific objective of the SAM II experiment was to develop a stratospheric aerosol database for the polar regions by measuring and mapping vertical profiles of the atmospheric exti
nction due to aerosols. This database allows for studies of aerosol changes due to seasonal and short-term meteorological variations, atmospheric chemistry,
cloud microphysics, and volcanic activity and other perturbations.
Contact: Langley DAAC, information above.
United Kindom Digital Marine Atlas V2.0 (UKP56.40): (Floppy disk)
This is an IBM compatibile PC based Marine Atlas covering the Northeast Atlantic and mainly centered on the British Isles. It comes on five 1.4MB floppies and runs under DOS (V3.0 or higher). It has several sections covering areas such as general Bathymetry, Marine Geology, Marine and Coastal Nature Conservation in Breat Britain, Marine Biology, Physical Oceanography, Marine Chemistry, Fisheries and the BODC data catalogues amongst others.
Contact: UKDMAP Project Manager, British Oceanographic Data Centre,
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston Observatory, BIRKENHEAD,
Merseyside L43 7RA United Kingdom. +44 51 653 8633, Fax: +44 51 652 3950.
Stratospheric Ozone ($39.95, $49.95 beginning March 1 1995) *COMMERCIAL*
This is a multimedia CD-ROM for the Apple Macintosh from Lenticular Press (College Station, TX). It includes the huge Nimbus 7 TOMS database of stratospheric ozone measurements; global and hemispheric daily, monthly, and climatological maps, and numerical data for the entire 14.5-year record, more than 16,000 maps and 500 MB of data in all.
Contact: Lenticular Press, P.O. Box 10413, College Station, TX 77842-0413.
409/693-0622, 409/693-0729 fax, sa...@lenticular.com.
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Subject: 5) Miscellaneous
NASA discs:
Various discs available, including: Voyager spacecraft images (12 discs, under $20 each!), Viking images of Mars, Magellan Venus data, Halley's
comet data (25 discs), excerpts from astronomical catalogs, and more.
Contact: NSSDC (NASA Space Science Data Center), Code 933.4, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771. 301/286-6695. They
also publish a free newsletter.
CD-ROM, INC: *COMMERCIAL*
Several hundred discs available, including: "GRIPS 2" high resolution images of topography, Landsat, vegetation maps, plus software ($49),
"JEDI" 3 discs full of earth, space, and sea science data intended for
school use ($31), 13 business/economic discs, >50 literature and
entertainment discs, >40 health-related discs, many science discs.
Prices range from $29-$895. Free catalog available from them.
Contact: CD-ROM, Inc, 1667 Cole Blvd. Suite 400, Golden, CO 80401.
303/526-7600, FAX 303/231-9581.
Digital Chart of the World ($200):
The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is a comprehensive 1:1,000,000-scale vector basemap of the world containing cartographic, attribute, and textual data. It is provided with software that permits the database to be accessed, queried, and displayed on PC-class computers. The primary source for the database is the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) series.
There are 4 discs: (1)North America, (2)Europe/Northern Asia, (3)South American/Africa/Antarctica, and (4)Southern Asia/Australia. The data are organized into 17 thematic coverages, including political boundaries and ocean coast lines, cities, transportation networks, drainage, land cover, and elevation contours.
Contact: USGS Open File Section, Box 25286, Denver, CO 80225.
303/236-7476.
GOES Space Environment Data (price unknown):
This disk includes data from January 1986 - April 1994 in 1-minute and 5-minute averages. Includes measurements of the 3 components of the Earth's magnetic field, whole-sun X-ray fluxes for the 0.5-to-4.0 and 1-to-8 Angstrom wavelength bands, photon, alpha particle, and electron fluxes.
The CD-ROM includes software to display and analyze the Space Environment Monitor data. DOS and IDL (Interactive Data Language) versions of the software allow the use of data on many platforms.
Contact: Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA Code E/GC2, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303. 303/497-6761, fax 303/497-6513, email go...@farpoint.ngdc.noaa.gov.
Windows on the Weather (price unknown):
This is an educational disc which allows the user to explore typical
airmasses over Britain using satellite sequences, weather charts, weather data, pictures, diagrams, text and audio descriptions. Samples from this disc can be seen at:
http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/advunit/wow.html
Contact: The Advisory Unit computers inEducation, 126 Great North Road, Hatfield Herts, AL9 5JZ UK, email adv...@rmplc.co.uk
Landsat images ($10): *COMMERCIAL*
Over 500 Landsat satellite images (JPG and GIF) from around the world,
along with many Windows and DOS utilities for CAD and image processing,
some educational games and a tutorial about LANDSAT satellites.
Contact: Intermountain Digital Imaging, LC, 275 East 200 South, Suite 15, Salt Lake City UT 84111. 801/355-4030, US toll-free 800/280-4030,
fax 801/355-4063, email sa...@idi-ut.com
Earth Observatorium ($49 for 2 CDs) *COMMERCIAL*
These disks explore NASA's program "Mission to Planet Earth" through the use of the complete photographic results of Earth from Space Shuttle flights 59 & 68. (almost 25,500 24- bit color photos). Includes annotation of each picture by country name, general feature, time, and lat/long location.
Contact: Rocky Mountain Digital Peeks, 303/258-3779, US toll-free
800/266-7637, fax 303/258-7170, URL:http://www.sni.net/malls/rmdp/ee.html
email rm...@sni.net
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Subject: 1) Table of contents
1) Table of contents
2) Overview
3) State Climatologists
4) Regional Climate Centers
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Subject: 2) Overview
If you are looking for historical information for a US location, your
best bet would be to contact the state climatologist for the area of interest.
This unofficial list was compiled from a variety of sources, including
the official list of State Climatologists, which is available from John
Hughes at NCDC, JHU...@ncdc.noaa.gov.
Key to abbreviations:
T = Telephone O = Omnet
F = Fax B = Bitnet
TM = Telemail I = Internet
URL = www URL
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Subject: 3) State Climatologists
Alabama
Dr. Richard McNider
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Alabama in Huntsville
977 Explorer Drive
Huntsville, AL 35806
T: 205-922-5752
F: 205-922-5755
I: dick.m...@atmos.uah.edu
Alaska
Dr. Dwight D. Pollard
Alaska State Climate Center
Environment and Natural Resources Institute
707 A Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
T: 907-257-2741
F: 907-276-6847
I: auc...@uaa.alaska.edu
Arizona
Dr. Anthony J. Brazel
Laboratory of Climatology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-1508
T: 602-965-6265
B: abr...@asu.edu
<URL:http://saguaro.la.asu.edu/ooc/general/state/>
Arkansas
Dr. John G. Hehr
Dept of Geography
Ozark Hall 108A
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
T: 501-575-3159
F: 501-575-2642
I: jgh...@uafsysb.uark.edu
California
Mr. William A. Mork
CA Dept of Water Resources
Division of Flood Management
P.O. Box 942836
Sacramento, CA 94236-0001
T: 916-653-7237
Colorado
Dr. Thomas McKee
Colorado Climate Center
Dept of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523
T: 303-491-8545
I: no...@ulysses.atmos.colostate.edu
(Nolan Doesken, Asst. SC)
<URL:http://ulysses.atmos.colostate.edu/>
Connecticut
Dr. David R. Miller
Dept of Natural Resources-U87
1376 Storrs Road
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-4087
T: 203-486-2840
B: dmiller@uconnvm
Delaware
Dr. Daniel J. Leathers
Center for Climatic Research
210 Newark Hall
Dept of Geography
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
T: 302-831-2294
F: 302-831-6654
<URL:http://www.udel.edu/leathers/stclim.html>
Florida
Dr. Kevin Kloesel
Dept of Meteorology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-3034
T: 904-644-1268
I: klo...@met.fsu.edu
<URL:http://www.ispa.fsu.edu/climate.html>
Georgia
Dr. Bill Bell
State Climate Office
Driftmier Engineering Center
University of Georgia
T: 706-542-6067
F: 706-542-8806
I: cli...@bae.uga.edu
<URL:http://www.bae.uga.edu/climate/index.html>
Hawaii
Mr. Manabu Tagomori
State Dept of Land & Natural
Resources
Div. of Water & Land Dev.
P.O. Box 373
Honolulu, HI 96809
T: 808-587-0230
Idaho
Dr. Myron Molnau
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept
425 Engineering/Physics Building
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-0904
T: 208-885-6184
F: 208-885-7908
I: cli...@uidaho.edu
<URL:http://www.uidaho.edu/~climate>
Illinois
Dr. Wayne M. Wendland
Illinois State Water Survey
2204 Griffith Drive
Champaign, IL 61820-7495
T: 217-333-0729
F: 217-333-6540
I: wa...@sun.sws.uiuc.edu
Indiana
Mr. Ken Scheeringa
Dept. of Agronomy
1150 Lilly Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1150
T: 317-494-8105
F: 317-496-2926
I: ksche...@dept.agry.purdue.edu
Iowa
Mr. Harry J. Hillaker, Jr.
State Climatologist
9607 NW Beaver Drive
Johnston, IA 50131
T: 515-270-6907
Kansas
Ms. Mary Knapp (acting)
Weather Data Library
211 Umberger Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-3400
T: 913-532-6270
F: 913-532-6487
Kentucky
Mr. Glen Conner
Kentucky Climate Center
Dept. of Geography & Geology
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101
T: 502-745-4555
I: gg02...@wkuvx1.wku.edu
<URL:http://www.wku.edu/~gg024004/ky-climate-center.html>
Louisiana
Mr. John M. Grymes, III
LA Office of State Climatology
Southern Regional Climate Center
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105
T: 504-388-6870
F: 504-388-2912
I: jgr...@maestro.srcc.lsu.edu
Maine
Dr. Bernard E. Dethier
University of Maine
PO Box 745
Blue Hill, ME 04614
T: 207-582-3224
Maryland
Dr. Alan Robock
State Climatologist
Dept. of Meteorology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-2425
T: 301-405-5377
T: 301-405-7223 for climate information
F: 301-314-9482
I: al...@atmos.umd.edu
I: cli...@atmos.umd.edu for climate information
<URL:http://www.metolab3.umd.edu/~alan/sc.html>
Massachusetts
Dr. David Taylor
State Climatologist
Mass Dept of Water Resources
496 Park Street
North Reading, MA 01864
T: 617-275-8860 ext 138
F: 617-271-0178
Michigan
Dr. Fred V. Nurnberger
MDA/Climatology Program
417 Natural Science Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
T: 517-373-8383 or 355-0231
F: 517-432-1076
TM: [climatology/mda]tm11/usa
I: scmi...@msu.edu
Minnesota
Mr. Jim Zandlo
State Climatology Office
University of Minnesota
S-325 Borlaug Hall
St. Paul, MN 55108
T: 612-296-4214
F: 612-625-2208
I: jza...@soils.umn.edu
<URL:http://www.soils.agri.umn.edu/research/climatology/>
Mississippi
Dr. Charles L. Wax
MS State Climatologist
Drawer 5167
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
T: 601-325-3915
I: cl...@ra.msstate.edu
Missouri
Steve Qi Hu
University of Missouri-Columbia
Department of Soil and Atmospheric Sciences
100 Gentry Hall
Columbia, Missouri 65211
T: 573-882-7437 or 6591
I: qi...@muccmail.missouri.edu
Montana
Dr. Jon M. Wraith
Plant & Soil Science Dept.
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717-0312
T: 406-994-5067
F: 406-994-3933
I: us...@trex.oscs.montana.edu
Nebraska
Mr. Allen Dutcher
Nebraska State Climatologist
239 Chase Hall
High Plains Climate Center
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0728
T: 402-472-5206
F: 402-472-6614
O: k.hubbard
B: agm...@unlvm.bitnet
I: agm...@unlvm.unl.edu
Nevada
Professor John W. James
Dept of Geography
College of Arts & Sciences
University of Nevada/Reno
Reno, NV 89557-0048
T: 702-784-6995
New Hampshire
Dr. Barry D. Keim
Department of Geography
James Hall
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
P: 603-862-3136
F: 603-862-2649
I: b...@hopper.unh.edu
<URL:http://unhinfo.unh.edu:70/0/unh/acad/libarts/geog/climate.html>
New Jersey
Dr. David Robinson
Office of the State Climatologist
Dept. of Meteorology
Cook College
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
T: 908-445-4741/9588
F: 908-445-0006
I: dro...@gandalf.rutgers.edu
<URL:http://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim/>
New Mexico
No S.C. at this time; the New Mexico Climate Center is at NMSU
<URL:http://weather.nmsu.edu/>
New York
Mr. Keith L. Eggleston
1117 Bradfield Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
T: 607-255-1749
F: 607-255-2106
I: kle1@.cornell.edu
<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
North Carolina
Dr. Sethu Raman
Dept. of Marine/Earth/Atmos Science
Box 8208
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
T: 919-515-1440 or 3056
F: 919-515-7802
I: sethu...@ncsu.edu
<URL:http://cumulus.meas.ncsu.edu>
North Dakota
Professor John W. Enz
Dept. of Soils Science
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105-5638
T: 701-237-8576
F: 701-237-7851
Ohio
Dr. Jeffrey C. Rogers
Dept. of Geography
1036 Derby Hall
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1361
T: 614-292-0148
F: 614-292-6213
I: jro...@geography.ohio-state.edu
Oklahoma
Dr. Ken Crawford
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
University of Oklahoma
Sarkey's Energy Center
100 East Boyd, Suite 1210
Norman, OK 73019-0628
T: 405-325-2541
F: 405-325-2550
I: o...@ou.edu
<URL:http://geowww.gcn.ou.edu/WWW/OCS/OCS.html>
Oregon
George H. Taylor
Office of the State Climatologist
326 Strand AG Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-2209
T: 503-737-5705
F: 541-737-5710
I: ore...@ats.orst.edu
<URL:http://www.ocs.orst.edu>
Pennsylvania
Paul Knight
606 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
T: 814-863-4229
I: kni...@psumeteo.psu.edu
<URL:http://www.ems.psu.edu/PA_Climatologist/PA_Climatologist.html>
Puerto Rico
Dr. Amos Winter
Dept. of Marine Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Puerto Rico
Mayaguez, PR 00709-5000
T: 809-265-3838
F: 809-265-2880
Rhode Island
Mr. Carl D. Sawyer
Dept. of Plant Sciences
Room 333, Woodward Hall
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
T: 401-792-2937
I: ltn...@uriacc.uri.edu
South Carolina
Dr. Michael Helfert
SC State Climate Office
1201 Main Street, Suite 1100
Columbia, SC 29201
T: 803-737-0800
F: 803-765-9080
I: hel...@water.dnr.state.sc.us
<URL:http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sco>
South Dakota
Mr. Alan R. Bender
AG Engineering Dept.
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
T: 605-688-5678
F: 605-688-4917
<URL:http://www.ces.sdstate.edu/ageng/weather/weather.htm>
Tennessee
Mr. Wayne Hamberger
Tennessee Valley Authority
Evans Building EB3W307A
400 West Summit Hill Dr.
Knoxville, TN 37902-1499
T: 615-632-4222
Texas
Professor John F. Griffiths
Meteorology Dept.
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3150
T: 409-845-8076/5044
F: 409-862-4466
I: jfg...@ariel.tamu.edu
Utah
Dr. Donald T. Jensen
Utah State Climatologist
Utah Climate Center
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84332-4825
T: 801-797-2190
F: 801-797-2117
I: dje...@cc.usu.edu
<URL:http://climate.usu.edu/>
Vermont
Dr. Aulis Lind
Dept. of Geography
Old Mill Bldg., Room 112
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405-0114
T: 802-656-3060
F: 802-656-8429
I: a_l...@uvmvax.uvm.edu
Virginia
Dr. Patrick J. Michaels
Virginia State Climate Office
Clark Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
T: 804-924-0549/7761
<URL:http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~climate/>
Washington
Mr. Mark Albright (acting)
Atmospheric Sciences Dept.
University of Washington, AK-40
Seattle, WA 98195
T: 206-543-0448
F: 206-543-0308
I: ma...@atmos.washington.edu
West Virginia
Dr. Stanley J. Tajchman
Division of Forestry
P.O. Box 6125
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506-6125
T: 304-293-3411
F: 304-293-2441
Wisconsin
Ms. Pam Naber Knox
State Climatologist Office
University of Wisconsin
1225 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706-1612
T: 608-263-2374
F: 608-262-5964
I: stc...@macc.wisc.edu
Wyoming
Dr. Victor Hasfurther
Wyoming Water Resources Center
University of Wyoming
P.O. Box 3067, UNN Station
Laramie, WY 82071
T: 307-766-2143
F: 307-766-3718
B: rwr...@wyocdcl.bitnet
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Subject: 4) Regional Climate Centers
Dr. Richard Reinhardt, Director
Western Regional Climate Center
PO Box 60220
Reno, NV 89506-0220
T: 702-677-3106 (Data requests)
T: 702-677-3103 (Administrative)
F: 702-677-3157
I: wr...@wrcc.sage.dri.edu (generic)
I: rrw...@wrcc.sage.dri.edu
<URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu>
Dr. Kenneth Kunkel, Director
Midwestern Regional Climate Center
Illinois State Water Survey
2204 Griffith Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
T: 217-244-1488
F: 217-333-6540
I: k-ku...@uiuc.edu
<URL:http://mcc.sws.uiuc.edu/>
Dr Warren Knapp, Director
Northeast Regional Climate Center
1107 Bradfield Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
T: 607-255-1751
F: 607-255-2106
I: kn...@metvax.cit.cornell.edu
<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
Dr. Robert Muller, Director
Southern Regional Climate Center
Louisiana State University
254 How-Russell Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105
T: 504-388-6870
F: 504-388-2520
I: rmu...@maestro.srcc.lsu.edu
<URL:http://www.srcc.lsu.edu/>
Dr Kenneth G. Hubbard, Director
High Plains Climate Center
Dept of Agricultural Meteorology
Room 242, L.W. Chase Hall
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0728
T: 402-472-6706
F: 402-472-6614
I: khub...@hpccsun.unl.edu
<URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/>
Dr. Michael Helfert, Director
Southeast Regional Climate Center
SCDNR-WRD
1201 Main Street, Suite 1100
Columbia, SC 29201
T: 803-737-0811 OR 0800
F: 803-765-9080
I: hel...@water.dnr.state.sc.us
<URL:http://water.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sercc>
Tom Berg
Last-modified: 1 March 2000
Recent changes:
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With special honor given to Ilana Stern who conceived of this FAQ and
maintained it with the greatest of professionalism and care until the torch was passed to me.
If the date in the headers of the document you're reading
is more than a month old, you should retrieve a current copy.
Current copies of this FAQ series can be obtained in hypertext form via WWW at <URL:http://www.mobile.gulf.net/~hcane/met/scigeo.html>.
There are 7 documents in this FAQ series:
Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data
Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data
Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs
Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Internet resources <===
Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources
Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of U.S. State Climatologists
Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Tom Berg at
hc...@mobile.gulf.net. Please include in your message where you read
this FAQ series. Note that if I know about it, it's in these documents.
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Subject: 1) Table of contents
1) Table of contents
2) Overview
3) Newsgroups and WWW bulletin boards
4) Mailing lists
5) Institutional home pages -- non-US
6) Institutional home pages -- US
7) Employment resources
8) Educational resources for teachers
9) Information on meteorology topics
Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.
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Subject: 2) Overview
This is a list of Internet resources for people wishing to discuss or
learn about meteorology, climatology, oceanography, and related disciplines.
They include resources for laypersons, professionals, teachers, and students.
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Subject: 3) Newsgroups and WWW bulletin boards
<URL:news:sci.geo.meteorology>
General discussion of meteorology; current and historic weather
phenomena, hurricanes, ENSO, and so on.
<URL:news:sci.geo.fluids>
Discussion of geophysical fluid dynamics.
<URL:news:sci.geo.oceanography>
General discussion of oceanography, including but not limited to physical oceanography.
<URL:news:sci.data.formats>
Discussion of data formats used in the sciences, including meteorology.
<URL:news:sci.geo.geology>
General discussion of geology; earthquakes, formations, and so on.
<URL:news:comp.infosystems.gis>
Discussion of Geographic Information Systems.
<URL:news:sci.nonlinear>
Discussion of chaos, nonlinear systems.
<URL:news:sci.environment>
Discussion of global warming, ozone depletion, anthropogenic effects,
social impacts, ecology, and so on. In practice, barely distinguishable from talk.environment.
<URL:news:sci.image.processing>
Discussion of image processing.
<URL:news:talk.environment>
Ranting and raving about global warming, ozone depletion, anthropogenic
effects, social impacts, ecology, and so on.
<URL:news:ne.weather>
Discussion of weather in the Northeastern United States (particularly
New England).
<URL:news:alt.talk.weather>
Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it...
<URL:news:uk.sci.weather>
UK and European weather discussion.
<URL:http://www.cybercomm.net/~tornado/wxboard/wwwboard.html>
WWW-based message board on the subject of weather.
<URL:http://thor.tamu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/nph-client>
WWW-based chat on the subject of weather.
<URL:http://www.sciencenet.com/>
Geoscience bulletin boards which have evolved out of the old OMNET
mail/conferencing service. Includes a geoscience-dedicated web indexer, job postings, joint author documentation creation software, and research program mailing list management.
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Subject: 4) Mailing lists
In the following list of mailing lists, commands to mailservers are
set off using quotation marks ("example"). Don't use the quotes when
sending actual mail to the servers.
AHP_ARCHIVE-L
A mailing list has been created to discuss issues arising out of the
preservation of the archives of the Alberta Hail Project (AHP). The Alberta Hail Project operated from 1957-1986, and collected meteorological data (centered around hail storms) using several sensors, including a circularly polarized 10 cm radar, a co-located 3 cm radar, and an instrumented aircraft, as well as extensive ground operations and surveys.
A project is currently underway to move as much digital data as possible to CD-ROM and store those at the University of Alberta Data Library. For more information on the project or the archives, email joh...@arc.ab.ca or see <URL:http://saturn.arc.ab.ca/~johnson/ahp_archive.html>.
To subscribe, send a message containing the line "SUBSCRIBE AHP_ARCHIVE-L" to MAIL...@ARC.AB.CA.
For information on how to use the list, send a mail message to
MAIL...@ARC.AB.CA with one line containing "HELP". To get a list of the addresses on the list, send a message to MAIL...@ARC.AB.CA containing "SEND/LIST AHP_ARCHIVE-L"
ai-geostats
The ai-geostats mailing list was established by in May of 1995 by Gregoire Dubois (gregoir...@ei.jrc.it), a PhD student in radioecology who uses GIS and geostats software, for the discussion of spatial data analysis, GIS, and geostatistics. As of September 1995 the list includes more than 330 subscribers from 31 countries, and new members are always welcome.
To subscribe, send a message containing the line "subscribe ai-geostats" to Majo...@gis.psu.edu. There is also a homepage, which includes an archive of past postings, at <URL:http://java.ei.jrc.it/rem/gregoire/>.
astroweather-sne (Astronomy-oriented weather for southern New England)
This mailing list is specifically devoted to "astronomer friendly" reports from weather observers around the North Eastern U.S. This list was inspired by two things: 1) The absolute NECESSITY for sky-watchers of all kinds to know cloud conditions at night, throughout their local area, as much in advance as possible, and 2) The fact that details about cloud cover and heading, especially at night, are among the LEAST important items for most weather observers to note or report.
TO SUBSCRIBE TO ASTROWEATHER-SNE:
Send a message to the address "majo...@latrade.com", with the following in the BODY (not the Subject line) of your message:
subscribe astroweather-sne
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ASTROWEATHER-SNE:
Send a message to the address "majo...@latrade.com", with the following in the BODY (not the Subject line) of your message:
info astroweather-sne
CALMET (Computer Aided Learning in Meteorology)
CALMET is a mailing list dedicated to computer-aided learning in
meteorology. It is associated with the ftp site cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk.
To join the list, send mail to calmet-...@ed.ac.uk. Messages
to the list go to cal...@ed.ac.uk.
CLIMLIST (moderated by John Arnfield)
CLIMLIST is a moderated electronic mail distribution list for climat-
ologists and those working in closely-related fields. It is used to
disseminate notices regarding conferences and workshops, data avail-
ability, calls for papers, positions available etc, as well as requests
for information. An updated directory of email addresses for the
subscribers to the list is distributed every month (usually on the 15th).
To subscribe, mail to whichever of these addresses works for you:
AJ...@OHSTMAIL.BITNET / aj...@osu.edu / jo...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
with the following information:
Your name; your email address; your departmental & institutional
affiliation; whether your email address is shared or personal; your area of interest or responsibility within climatology.
GRC
This mailing list has been setup for those whom are hunting for geographic datas, maps and other, and for those whom have such resources available. To subscribe, send email to Majo...@geog.hkbu.edu.hk with the command
"subscribe grc your_email_address" in the text body. To send mail to
the list, use the address g...@geog.hkbu.edu.hk.
GT-ATMDC (coordinated by Ivo Bouwmans, Bouw...@Interduct.TUDelft.NL)
This is the `Theme Group' on Atmospheric Dispersion of Chemicals of the Global Research Network on Sustainable Development. Discussions cover: sources of chemicals and their emission characteristics, the way chemicals disappear from the atmosphere, the atmospheric velocity field and the physical dispersion mechanisms, interaction between the physics and the chemistry of the dispersion process, the effects that chemicals have on the atmospheric system, interaction between the atmosphere and the compartme
nts water and land, selection of consensus models.
This is part of the Global Research Network on Sustainable Development (GRNSD), a worldwide, independent forum of individual scientists. The network will facilitate the international, interdisciplinary, and interactive coordination of the global sustainable development research process.
[More information about GRNSD will be sent after registration or on
request.]
To become a member of GT-ATMDC, you must fill out a form describing your contact information, affiliation and research interests. To get the registration form, and more information about the mailing list, send email to Req...@Interduct.TUDelft.NL with the subject "send gt-atmdc-info".
HHNet
The goal of HHNet is to promote communication between scientists
interested in hydrology. It will generate a regular newsletter called
the 'HHNet Digest' for announcements and scientific queries of general
interest, provide a central site for obtaining current e-mail addresses
of those working in these areas, and diffuse information such as data,
information on meetings and seminars, details of new books and journal
articles, and vacant faculty positions.
Submissions for Hydro Digest: E-mail to ezze...@cig.ensmp.fr
with "submit" as subject.
Subscriptions for Hydro Digest: E-mail to ezze...@cig.ensmp.fr with
"subscribe" as subject. To unsubscribe, e-mail with "unsubscribe" followed by your e-mail address as subject.
MET-AI (administered by Eric....@comp.vuw.ac.nz)
MET-AI is an unmoderated mailing list for meteorologists and AI researchers interested in applications of artificial intelligence to meteorology. Suitable topics for discussion include (but are not limited to): applications of machine learning to weather forecasting, artificial neural networks in meteorology, automatic interpretation and analysis of satellite imagery, automatic synthesis of weather forecast texts, case-based reasoning and meteorology, expert systems and decision aids for weather forecast
ing, high-level interfaces to archives of meteorological data, and statistical
pattern recognition
To subscribe to MET-AI, send e-mail to met-ai-...@comp.vuw.ac.nz,
including the command "subscribe" in the body of your message.
MET-JOBS (administered by ted....@mtnswest.com)
MET-JOBS is a moderated list for posts of employment opportunity
announcements in meteorology, climatology, and other atmospheric sciences.
Announcements of teaching or research graduate assistantships, postdoctoral research positions, etc., also are appropriate. Any employment setting (academia, government, or private industry) located anywhere in the world is appropriate.
*** DO NOT *** post resumes, inquiries, responses to job opportunity
posts, etc., to this list. Persons who do so may be removed from the list.
There is also a GEOSCI-JOBS list, which can be accessed in a similar
fashion, for other geoscience jobs.
SERVER ADDRESS: met-jobs...@eskimo.com
LIST ADDRESS: met-...@eskimo.com
ARCHIVE ADDRESS: ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/t/tcsmith/MET-JOBS
You may subscribe/unsubscribe at any time by sending email to
met-jobs...@eskimo.com with the suject SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE.
If you would rather receive the messages as a DIGEST (several messages
compiled into one) instead send your subscription message to
MET-JOBS-DI...@eskimo.com.
To post an Employment Opportunity Announcement, send it as a message
to met-...@eskimo.com. The preferred format is to (1) include the
educational level required, field, and location as the subject of
the message [e.g., PhD: Meteorology: USA-KS would indicate a PhD-level
meteorology position located in Kansas] and (2) format your message
to a width of 72 characters or less (longer lines get truncated at
some sites, including archive sites).
Met-stud (administered by Dennis Schulze)
This mailing list is open to all, but particularly intended as a
communications facility among meteorology students worldwide. Subjects
of discussion could include scholarships, summer schools, conferences,
and comparisons of the meteorology programs at various universities.
Meteorological problems and questions could also be discussed.
To subscribe, send mail to list...@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de with
"SUB met-stud First_Name Last_Name" in the body of the message.
Administrative mail should be sent to that address too.
The list's address itself is met-...@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de.
Although the list is based in Germany, the language used is English.
nfc (National Forecasting Contest)
This mailing list is open to everyone but particularly intended as a
communication facility for participants of the National Forecasting Contest which is carried out over the Internet. The organizers hope that it will lead to debates about the issued forecasts and to discuss different ways of creating forecasts. Topics may also range from numerical models to current weather events. Everything which has to do with weather and forecasting is welcome.
To subscribe, send email to list...@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de containing
the line "sub nfc first_name last_name" in the message body.
The list's address itself is n...@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de. If you have any problems or questions send mail to den...@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de. Though the list is situated in Germany the language is English.
Weather-users (administered by sc...@zorch.sf-bay.org)
This list is for discussions of weather servers; sharing of code to
automatically query weather servers; and announcements of availability
(or lack thereof) and changes to weather servers. Initially, Jeff Masters (s...@downwind.sprl.umich.edu) has agreed to send Weather Underground status notices to this list.
To join or quit the list, email to weather-us...@zorch.sf-bay.org;
the list mail address is weathe...@zorch.sf-bay.org.
WXOBS-SNE-DIGEST (run by To...@shore.net, Todd Gross)
This is a Southern/Central New England amateur weather observer mailing list where observations are made by weather watchers on a continuing basis and shared with the rest of those subscribed to the list. We are also accepting observations from nearby portions of N.Y. State. To subscribe to the digest version send email to WXOBS-SNE-DI...@SHORE.NET with "SUBSCRIBE" in the body of the message.
WXOBS-MDA (run by wxce...@Shore.net, William Hipkins)
This maillist is for those interested in obtaining more information
regarding weather in the states of: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, DC and parts of New York. You will receive weather
watches/warnings, state summaries and forecasts, special weather statements, and best of all, local observations by other list subscribers. If you keep daily weather records for your community, you can post them to the list. There is also a digest version available.
To subscribe, send email to wxobs-md...@greatbasin.com. In the body of the message, include "SUBSCRIBE". To send information to the list, mail to wxob...@greatbasin.com.
Wxsat (administered by Richard B. Emerson)
Wxsat resends all NOAA/NESDIS bulletins on polar and geostationary weather satellites as well as occasional material on Meteosat. Bulletins with orbital predictions, spacecraft operation schedules, and related messages are copied from NOAA.SAT on SCIENCEnet and forwarded to all addresses on the list. The list is configured to accept and broadcast mail from subscribers to the list at large. Wxsat does not store or distribute imagery and is not primarily a "chat" list. Wxsat is oriented towards users w
ith a daily operational need for TBUS and related bulletins.
An archive of roughly 60 days' messages are available for retrieval via email messages to wxsat-...@ssg.com. Send the message "help" in the text to the archive server for details on how to retrieve the current index and other files. There is also an archive for programs and gifs at <URL:ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wxsat/>.
Subscription requests go to wxsat-...@ssg.com.
WX-TALK and other WX-lists
WX-TALK is a mailing list for weather-related topics, special event
notifications, job announcements, and administrative messages. WX-CHASE is for tornado/storm chasing discussions. SKYWARN is for discussions related to severe local storm spotting and civil defense issues. These lists, and some other specialized weather-related lists, are run from the po.uiuc.edu LISTSERV machine at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. For more information about these lists and information on how to subscribe, send e-mail to LIST...@PO.UIUC.EDU with the following command:
sendme wx-talk.doc
Volcano mailing list (edited by Jon Fink)
Send submissions and subscription requests to Jon Fink at
ai...@asuvm.inre.asu.edu, or aijhf@ASUACAD (via Bitnet).
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Subject: 5) Institutional home pages -- non-US
<URL:http://www.wmo.ch>
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
<URL:http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu/IWW/>
International Weather Watchers
<URL:http://www.es.mq.edu.au/ISB>
International Society of Biometeorology
<URL:http://www.ecmwf.int/>
European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF)
<URL:http://www.ozone-sec.ch.cam.ac.uk/eorcu/>
European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit
<URL:http://www.dow.on.doe.ca>
Environment Canada home page (Toronto, ON). Contains links to other
Environment Canada servers:
Environment Canada - Green Lane (Ottawa) <URL:http://www.doe.ca>
Environment Canada - Bedford, Nova Scotia <URL:http://www.ns.doe.ca>
Environment Canada - Vancouver, British Columbia <URL:http://www.pwc.bc.doe.ca>
Great Lakes Information Management Resource <URL:http://www.cciw.ca/glimr/intro.html>
Canada Centre for Inland Waters <URL:http://www.cciw.ca/Welcome.html>
<URL:http://www.dwd.de/>
Deutscher Wetterdienst (German weather service)
<URL:http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de>
Alfred Wegener Institute
<URL:http://www.pik-potsdam.de>
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
<URL:http://www_meteo.oma.be/IRM-KMI/>
Royal Meteorological Institute (Belgium)
<URL:http://www.meteo.fr>
Meteo-France (French weather service)
<URL:http://www.meto.gov.uk/>
UK Meteorological Office
<URL:http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/>
British Antarctic Survey
<URL:http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/weather/>
BBC Weather Centre
<URL:http://rcru1.te.rl.ac.uk>
Chilbolton Radar Facilty, Radio Communications Research Unit at
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
<URL:http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/rms/rms.html>
Royal Meteorological Society
<URL:http://www.torro.org.uk>
Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO)
<URL:http://www.knmi.nl/>
Dutch Weather Service
<URL:http://www.aodc.gov.au/AODC.html>
The Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
<URL:http://www.ml.csiro.au>
The CSIRO (Australia) Division of Oceanography
<URL:http://www.bom.gov.au>
Australia Bureau of Meteorology
<URL:http://amdisa.ho.bom.gov.au/bmrc/>
Bureau of Meteorology Research (Australia)
<URL:http://www.met.co.nz>
Meteorological Service of New Zealand
<URL:http://www.niwa.cri.nz>
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (New Zealand)
<URL:http://www.mri-jma.go.jp/>
Meteorological Research Institute (Japan)
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Subject: 6) Institutional home pages -- US
US Government sites:
<URL:http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html>
NASA system-wide home page
<URL:http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/>
NASA Goddard Climate and Radiation Branch
<URL:http://www.noaa.gov>
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
<URL:http://www.nws.noaa.gov>
National Weather Service
<URL:http://www.erl.noaa.gov>
NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories
<URL:http://www.etl.noaa.gov>
NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory
<URL:http://ns.noaa.gov/NESDIS/NESDIS_Home.html>
NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
<URL:http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov>
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
<URL:http://www.nssl.ou.edu>
National Severe Storms Laboratory
<URL:http://www.epa.gov>
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Regional Climate Centers:
<URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu>
Western RCC
<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
Northeast RCC
<URL:http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/sercc.html>
Southeast RCC
<URL:http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html>
Southern RCC
<URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/>
High Plains RCC
Other institutions:
<URL:http://www.fnoc.navy.mil>
Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center
<URL:http://grads.iges.org>
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
<URL:http://wwwcaps.ou.edu>
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS)
<URL:http://www.whoi.edu/>
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
<URL:http://www.water.ca.gov>
California Department of Water Resources home page
<URL:http://www.gcrio.org/>
U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)
<URL:http://cires.colorado.edu>
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
<URL:http://www.cira.colostate.edu>
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
<URL:http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov>
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercomparison (PCMDI) of the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
<URL:http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS>
<URL:gopher://atm.geo.nsf.gov/11/AMS>
American Meteorological Society
<URL:http://www.agu.org/>
American Geophysical Union
<URL:http://vortex.weather.brockport.edu>
Department of Earth Sciences at the State University of New York at Brockport
<URL:http://meteor.atms.purdue.edu>
Purdue University Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Science
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Subject: 7) Employment resources
These are Internet resources that may be useful in finding a job
in atmospheric science or related fields. Also please see the
MET-JOBS mailing list.
<URL:http://www.infi.net/~cwt/nwa-jobs.html>
National Weather Association job listings. Includes broadcast
meteorology, forecasting, research.
<URL:http://snowfall.rutgers.edu/envsci/jobs/index.html>
This WWW site contains job listings culled from Usenet newsgroups and
mailing lists, as well as pointers to other sites which contain both
general and meteorology-related jobs.
<URL:http://www.swiftsite.com/mejjobs/>
Meteorological Employment Journal, listing current meteorological and
related scientific job opportunities. Updated weekly.
<URL:http://www.rdc.noaa.gov/~webvas/>
NOAA Resource Development Center Consolidated Vacancy Announcement System list. This is a list of NOAA federal jobs in meteorology, oceanography, hydrology, and related technical disciplines.
<URL:http://www.ucar.edu/publications/thisweek/jobs/>
UCAR News job anouncements. Includes information on applying for jobs at NCAR/UCAR, a list of vacancies, and archives of job announcements.
<URL:http://www.ggrweb.com>
Vacancy listing for GIS/GPS/Remote Sensing professionals.
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Subject: 8) Educational resources for teachers
Also see section 9, information on meteorology topics.
<URL:ftp://ftp.met.ed.ac.uk/calmet/>
Software and documents in support of computer-aided learning in meteorology; it is associated with the CALMET mailing list (described in the Resources
FAQ).
<URL:http://nesen.unl.edu/nesen.html>
Nebraska Earth Science Education Network pages contain a variety
of lesson plans and projects for teaching earth science.
<URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu>
University of Michigan Weather Underground contains many curriculum
resources for K-12 education including the "Blue Skies" program. Also
a list of other resources at <URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/outreach/>.
<URL:http://www.ucar.edu:8080/ucargen/education/eduhome.html>
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)'s pointers to
educational resources for K-12, undergraduate/postgraduate, and general
public science literacy.
<URL:http://aws.com>
Automated Weather Source Inc.'s Nationwide School Weather Network.
Some resources ("Virtual Schoolhouse") are under development.
<URL:http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/WEATHER/weather.html>
Thematic unit for weather for grades two through four. Lessons in
various subjects with a weather theme.
<URL:http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEred/WeatherHome.html>
"Weather Here and There" unit which incorporates interaction with the
Internet and hands-on collaborative, problem solving activites for students in grades four through six.
<URL:http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/geosciences/geosciences.html>
UIUC-CoVis Geosciences Web Server. The Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project is thousands of students, over a hundred teachers, and dozens of researchers and scientists working to improve science education in middle and high schools. Participating students study atmospheric and environmental sciences through inquiry-based activities.
The server includes instructional materials on a variety of geoscience topics, including meteorology, climatology, and oceanography.
<URL:http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/weather/kids.htm>
BBC Weather Centre's "children's weather" page. Course in building a
weather station and other children-oriented weather information.
<URL:http://nsidc.colorado.edu/education/>
National Snow and Ice Data Center information on the Blizzard of '96
for k-12 students.
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Subject: 9) Information on meteorology topics
General:
<URL:http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wworks0.htm>
USA Today's How the Weather Works pages. Lots of basic information
on fronts, high and low pressure, storm systems, tornados, hurricanes,
clouds, humidity, the jet stream and other weather-related topics.
<URL:http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/covis/modules/html/module.html>
UIUC Department of Atmospheric Sciences Electronic Textbook. Includes sections on air pressure, winds, and atmospheric optics; a guide to weather maps and images; a catalog of cloud types; and a storm-spotters' guide.
<URL:http://www.agu.org/everyone.html>
The American Geophysical Union's "Science for Everyone": selected
papers from AGU about earth science topics.
<URL:http://www.access.digex.net/~rmg3/>
Robert Grumbine's collection of Science FAQs. Climate change, ozone,
CO2, and other information.
Ozone:
<URL:http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet/ozone-depletion/top.html>
<URL:http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/sea-level-faq.html>
<URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/ozone-depletion>
Robert Parson's Ozone Depletion FAQ
<URL:http://acd.ucar.edu/gpdf/ozone/science/>
Stratospheric Ozone Law, Information & Science page. Links to policy
information and scientific information on the ozone layer and the ozone hole.
<URL:http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/index.html>
EPA Ozone depletion web site. Includes information on the science,
regulations to protect the ozone layer, fact sheets, Title VI of the Clean Air Act, info on the UV Index, a glossary of terms, and how consumers can help protect the ozone layer.
Climate change:
<URL:http://www.access.digex.net/~rmg3/sea.level.faq>
<URL:http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet/sea-level-faq/top.html>
<URL:http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/sea-level-faq.html>
<URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sea-level-faq>
Bob Grumbine's Sea Level, Ice, and Greenhouses FAQ
<URL:http://www.access.digex.net/~rmg3/scq.climate.basics>
Climate Change Basics article by Jan Schloerer.
<URL:http://www.access.digex.net/~rmg3/scq.CO2rise>
CO2 rise article by Jan Schloerer.
El Nino:
<URL:http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html>
El Nino theme page, from NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory
(PMEL). Information about El Nino / Southern Oscilation.
<URL:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO>
NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) El Nino information page.
Information about the current state and forecasts of El Nino, plus
educational and research information.
Severe weather:
<URL:http://typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu/>
<URL:ftp://downdry.atmos.colostate.edu/pub/>
Chris Landsea's Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Storms FAQ
<URL:ftp://nofc.forestry.ca/pub/fire/docs/ltg.faq>
Kerry Anderson's Lightning FAQ
<URL:http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html>
William Beaty's collection of articles, cites, and WWW links pertaining to Ball Lightning