Weather Site Links
METAR
NOAA.gov - Complete documentation on the METAR format
NOAA.gov - Information on METAR and
TAF reports. Also provides a link to current metar reports
and cycle files.
WMO documentation on METAR format (PDF)
Software libraries
Perl modules for parsing METAR reports at the
CPAN website
PhpWeather is a
PHP application (with a
GNU GPL licence) that parses METAR reports.
pymetar python library for METAR fetching and parsing
Current reports
The Met Office - METARs and TAFs for the UK (requires free
login)
Nav Canada aviation weather site - provides METARs and TAFs
for Canada (and some international stations)
MyMetar.com - weather mashup providing METARs, TAFs and
radar images from a variety of sources; weather via XML too.
AC Network Weather - Current TAFs and METARs for selected
airports in Canada, the United States, and around the world
Meteorological Data & Networks
AERONET
[1] NASA Goddard AERONET site
AMDAR
NOAA AMDAR site
Official website of Japan Meteorological Agency
EMWIN homepage
www.weather.com/
www.weather.yahoo.com/
National Weather
Service
NWS Homepage
Weather Forecast Offices
NOAA Government Jet Stream MAP
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/
National Weather Service (NWS)
Chief Information Officer
National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
Aviation Weather Center (AWC)
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Center Weather Service Units
(CWSU)
Climate Prediction Center
(CPC)
Environmental Modeling Center (EMC)
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC)
Ocean Prediction Center (OPC)
NCEP Central Operations
Space Environment Center (SEC)
Storm Prediction Center (SPC)
Tropical Prediction Center (TPC)
National Hurricane Center (NHC)
Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch
Technical Support Branch
Chief Financial Officer
Operational Systems
Hydrologic Development
Science and Technology
Programs and Plans
Meteorological Development Laboratory
Climate, Water and Weather Services
122 Weather Forecast Offices (NWSFO)
6 Regional Climate Centers (RCC)
13 River Forecast Centers (RFC)
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Meteorological
Service of Canada
Météo-France
National Weather Service
NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
Aviation Weather
National Hurricane Center
Storm Prediction Center
Santorum NWS controversy
Weather.gov
Free National Weather Service Yahoo! Widget
NWS Organization Tree
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres
Automated Surface Observing System - NWS
Automated Surface Observing System/Automated Weather Observing
System - FAA
any AWOS
National Space Science Center Common Data Format home page
"An Introduction to Distributed Visualization"; section 4.2
contains a comparison of CDF, HDF, and netCDF.
ERA-40 project page
ERA-40 overview
FERRET DATA VISUALIZATION & ANALYSIS
Numerical Climate & Weather Models
Ferret official site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FluxNet
http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/FLUXNET/
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/on388/
GRIB API
Common Data Format (CDF)
Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)
netCDF
PP-format
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/techlab/giovanni/interface_details.shtml
Global Atmosphere Watch official site
Global Sea Level Observing System
A website that list current programs news maps etc
International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System
in the Pacific.
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Global Telecommunications System
Global telecommunications system
Hierarchical Data Format Home Page
HDF home page
NCSA HDF5 home page
What is HDF5?
"An Introduction to Distributed Visualization"; section 4.2
contains a comparison of CDF, HDF, and netCDF.
NOAA's
Environmental Real-time Observation Network
netCDF project page at the University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research
netCDF-Java project
netCDF4 project page
ncBrowse - generic netCDF file viewer - includes Java
graphics, animations and 3D visualizations for wide range of
netCDF file conventions
"An Introduction to Distributed Visualization"; section 4.2
contains a comparison of CDF, HDF, and netCDF.
NCO a suite of programs known as operators, which facilitate
manipulation and analysis of netCDF files
dapper data server and
DChart web client for OPeNDAP in-situ data in netCDF format
University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research
National Center for Atmospheric Research
The
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Visit NCAR
NCAR supercomputers
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Attribution of
recent climate change
RealClimate - Blog on current climate change issues by
active climatologists
"The Climate of Man", The New Yorker
(2005):
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3
Anthropogenic or Solar? by Shaviv
US EPA climate change and global warming website
Climate model
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/gpol/abstracts/1980/WangStone.html
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/258.htm
http://www.shodor.org/master/environmental/general/energy/application.html
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/emics/
http://www.hadleycentre.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/models/modeltypes.html
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Hadley Centre - general info on their models
http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/ -
NCAR/UCAR
Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
http://www.climateprediction.net - do it yourself climate
prediction
http://edgcm.columbia.edu/ - a NASA/GISS global climate
model (GCM) with a user-friendly interface for PCs and Macs
http://www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca/ -
CCCma model info and interface to retrieve model data
http://nomads.gfdl.noaa.gov/CM2.X/ -
NOAA /
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory CM2 global climate
model info and model output data files
(IPCC 2001 section 8.3) - on model hierarchy
(IPCC 2001 section 8) - much information on coupled GCM's
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
On the Radiative and Dynamical Feedbacks over the Equatorial
Pacific Cold Tongue
Climate change
US EPA climate change and global warming website
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding Climate
change
NASPDF:
National Academy of Sciences: Understanding and Responding
to Climate change, Overview.
Summary of the Impacts of Climate Change from
The Nature Conservancy
Climate change and global warming -
WWF (conservation organization).
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP): Climate Change
Page
Global Change by the
Pacific Institute
The UN Climate Change Secretariat
Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
(2004) by the
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment –
Summary by
GreenFacts
Nov 2006:
Carbon emissions show sharp rise
Oct 2006:
Guide to Climate Change
Nov 2005:
'Gas muzzlers' challenge Bush
Oct 2005:
Earth - melting in the heat?
Oct 2005:
Europe study shows climate risks
Feb 2005:
Greenhouse gases 'do warm oceans'
Ongoing:
BBC Climate Change Experiment
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/518.htm
IPCC TAR SPM figure 3
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/271.htm
For additional
discussion of feedbacks relevant to ongoing climate change, see
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/260.htm
Arctic Change Indicators
Bering Sea Climate and Ecosystem Indicators
How scientists study climate change: Some important research
concepts used by scientists to study climate variations
UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership, Annual Report Card
of current knowledge
Increasing destructiveness of tropical
cyclones over the past 30 years. K.A.
Emanuel, Nature, 436 (2005), pp. 686-688.
ftp://texmex.mit.edu/pub/emanuel/PAPERS/NATURE03906.pdfPDF
What effects are we seeing now and what is still to come?
Calvin Jones "Climate Change: Facts and Impacts"
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The Truth About Global Warning
by Seattle Times
Knowledge,
ignorance and the popular culture: Climate change versus the
ozone hole - Sheldon Ungar - University of
Toronto at Scarborough, Canada
(Report's
stark warning on climate)
United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Official site of the UNFCCC
Text of the UNFCCC as a PDF
Text of the UNFCCC as HTML
The Framework Convention on Climate Change at Law-Ref.org —
fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents
BBC News
Climate of the deep past
Faint young sun paradox
Snowball earth
Oxygen Catastrophe
Climate of the last 500 million years
Phanerozoic overview
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
Cretaceous Thermal Maximum
Permo–Carboniferous Glaciation
Ice ages
Climate of recent glaciations
Dansgaard–Oeschger event
Younger Dryas
Ice age temperatures
Recent climate
Holocene Climatic Optimum
Medieval Warm Period
Little Ice Age
Year Without a Summer
Temperature record of the past 1000 years
Global warming
Hardiness Zone Migration
Abrupt climate change
An Inconvenient Truth
Are We Changing Planet Earth?
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Climate change response
Climate Change Science Program
Climate model
Climate of Mars
Economics of global warming
Effects of global warming
Emission standard
Energie-Cités
Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments
Global Warming
Global warming controversy
Hell and High Water
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International Environmental Law
Iron fertilization
Kyoto Protocol
Low-carbon economy and
decarbonisation
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Mitigation of global warming
Permafrost
Renewable energy
Sea level rise
Timeline of environmental events
Climateprediction.net
Global climate model
Global warming
Radiative forcing
Tropical cyclone prediction model
GFDL CM2.X
Earth Simulator
HadCM3 - explanation of an AOGCM
EdGCM - a
global climate model for students
CCCma
Edward Martell - NCAR's former radiochemist
The Earth Simulator Center
Time Magazine: 2002 Best Inventions
NetCDF Operators
NCO Official website
NinJo
Java Advanced Imaging in Action (NinJo)
Introduction to the project NinJo from the German Meteorological
Service
OPeNDAP.org
THREDDS --Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data
Services
dapper - OPeNDAP server for in-situ data
DChart - Web viewer for NOAA Observing System data (in-situ
data)
GrADS
ncBrowse - Java viewer for OPeNDAP netCDF files (supports wide
range of netCDF conventions)
Ferret
Pydap - client/server implementation written in Python
NASA GCMD OPeNDAP portal
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
Asia-Pacific Data Research Center -- a textbook example OPenDAP
implementation
PP-format header
Pirep Pilot Forum
pireps
ATC
http://products.weather.gov/PDD/ROFOR.pdf
National Skywarn Homepage
Skywarn Recognition Day
Skywarn Website Index (please note that most of these are
amateur radio related)
NWS Southern Region Headquarters (contains a clickable map
of local NWS office websites)
ARRL-American Radio Relay League (for those interested in
getting started in amateur radio)
StormWiki
Voice Over Internet Protocol Weather Net (mostly supports
National Hurricane Center but has local Skywarn participation)
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Canadian Marine Weather
USA National Data Buoy Center
Buoyweather - Commercial site
WeatherBug – Must Check
Weatherbug official Web site
AWS Convergence Technologies official Web site
http://www.refdesk.com/weath1.html
Really Cool interactive weather map
UM WEATHER LINKS -
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
Weatherpixie site
Tamsin Bowles's home page - includes biography, interests
and pictures.
Weather
Portals
Portal To Tropical cyclones
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