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From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
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Recent changes:
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==within last four weeks==
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Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at
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If the date in the headers of the document you're reading
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Current copies of this FAQ series can be obtained by anonymous FTP at
or
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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 ?"
for just about any value of 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. Comprehensive weather sites
4. North America
5. Regional US sites
6. US Regional Climate Centers
7. Global weather in general
8. Europe
9. Australia and New Zealand
10. Asia
11. South/Central America, Caribbean
12. Antarctica
13. Africa
14. Various satellite data and archives
15. Specialty-oriented weather sites
16. Severe weather
17. Collections of weather data links
18. Commercial services
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 4/7: 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
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 US State Climatologists
Summary: List of US State Climatologists and Regional Climate Centers
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 by anonymous FTP at
or
in hypertext form via WWW at .
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:
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au
ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
Send an e-mail message to the closest address, with the lines:
reply your_address@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 .
Wais information
Available by ftp at
.
WWW information
Available by ftp at .
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 or Netscape.
--
/\ Backcountry skiing is for anarchists and coyote angels. Your feet
\_][ get cold and no one admires your new outfit. [C. L. Rawlins]
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From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology,news.answers,sci.answers
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data
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Recent changes:
==within last two weeks==
Added precipitation maps to list of data at
Rewrote Overview section to include climate resources in section 17
Added EA Technology
to commercial services section
==within last four weeks==
Added Global Climate
Summaries, to climate section
Added Global climate data retrieval,
to climate section
Added to regional US sites
This article is copyright (c) 1995 by Ilana Stern. 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.
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 by anonymous FTP at
or
in hypertext form via WWW at .
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 US State Climatologists
Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at
ilana@ncar.ucar.edu. 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) Comprehensive weather sites
4) North America
5) Regional US sites
6) US Regional Climate Centers
7) Global weather in general
8) Europe
9) Australia and New Zealand
10) Asia
11) South/Central America, Caribbean
12) Antarctica
13) Africa
14) Various satellite data and archives
15) Specialty-oriented weather sites
16) Severe weather
17) Climate data
18) Collections of weather data links
19) Commercial services
Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.
------------------------------
Subject: 2) Overview
Sites listed in this section contain weather data: satellite images,
forecast maps, soundings, and so on. Some sites appear more than once
under different subject headings. Some sites have identical contents;
please use the site closest to you.
Most of these sites have current or near-current data; some of them have
data from severe events of historical significance, such as major storms.
There's very little historical daily data freely available via the
Internet. Part of the reason for this is the enormous volume; it takes
very little space on a disk to store today's conditions, but when you
multiply that by 365 days per year for however many years, it becomes
quite a bit. Section 17 of this FAQ gives some sites with climatological
data.
For most purposes, though, this kind of data isn't needed. If you want
to plan an outdoor event in, say, Greenbelt, MD on July 17, knowing
what the weather was like on previous July 17ths isn't really very
helpful. If this is the sort of thing you're looking for, try looking
in an almanac, which usually have tables for monthly or seasonal conditions
in major cities.
If you really need historical information for a US location that is not
covered by the sources listed in section 17, your best bet would be to
try the Regional Climate Center for the area of interest. Several have WWW
pages or email contacts. Also see the Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List
of US State Climatologists for addresses and phone numbers of RCCs and State
Climatologists, who may also be able to help. The list is also available at
.
Also, see the Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data
for climate data. Some monthly and seasonal climatologies are available
------------------------------
Subject: 3) Comprehensive weather sites
These sites all focus on North America, but many include data for other
parts of the world as well. These sites all contain a variety of weather-
related information: satellite images, surface and upper-air analyses and
plots, text forecasts, and so on.
Weather World from the University of Illinois. Satellite images, surface
and upper air analyses, forecast model output, etc. This server also includes
a very nice and comprehensive collection of MPEG movies based on the still
images. They are updated hourly and they cover various time durations of up
to over two days.
University of Illinois Weather Machine. Satellite images, surface and
upper-air analyses, text weather forecasts, local (Illinois) weather, and
various useful documents, including GRIB and ON84 format descriptions,
station lists, graphics information, etc. Not as slick as Weather World,
but contains more information. Questions, comments, and requests for changes
should be sent to gopher@wx.atmos.uiuc.edu.
Purdue University WXP Web site. This site includes satellite images,
surface plots and analyses, upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar,
and plots of the results from various NMC forecast models. The text on
each page explains very clearly the meteorological usefulness and
interpretation of the various plots. Questions and comments to
devo@cell.atms.purdue.edu.
Forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean; severe weather, NMC products, tropical
observations and forecasts, marine and aviation weather; satellite images
and analyses for US including Alaska, and Antarctica; surface plots for
US, Europe, China.
The National Weather Service's Interactive Weather Information Network.
Various data products for the US in general and for the states, mostly
via imagemaps.
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Subject: 4) North America
Other sites with a variety of weather information for North America:
These sites are all mirrors of the same archive of satellite images and
upper air and surface plots.
These sites are Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports,
ski conds, severe wx). There is also the Weather Underground WWW home
page at .
This gopher site includes surface plots and analyses, model output plots,
upper air analyses, soundings, and radar, all for the US (some Canadian
plots), and text forecasts for Florida. can
be accessed via this site. A home page in html for use with WWW browsers
is .
Real-time weather data for the US. Includes skew-T, wind profiler (for
the midwest only), surface plots, RUC (NCEP) model data, some aviation
data. Heavily graphics-oriented.
Satellite images, radar summary, a few analyses, plus text forecasts
and other information for many US cities. A few cities have a lot of
detailed information.
University of Utah Department of Meteorology. Many products on this
server, plus links to other servers: forecasts, numerical model output,
satellite images, profiler data, surface and upper air.
Satellite images, 6-panel and radar summary images, surface analyses.
Environment Canada. Forecasts, charts, satellite photos over Canada.
Also accessible by ftp and by gopher.
(VMS)
Images of the northeast US in GIF format from the afternoon passes of
NOAA-11. (Provided by Dave Tetreault, DAVET@uriacc.uri.edu.)
US text forecasts and worldwide satellite images.
Weather satellite images and forecast model output, meteorgrams and
some forecasts and observations for US states and regions.
Surface analysis for US, plus (searchable) US city forecasts.
National forecasts and discussions, NMC model forecasts, surface
maps, state and zone forecasts.
NWS forecasts and nowcasts for US regions, cities, states.
The Weather Channel home page. General national conditions and links
to other sites.
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. Various images
and animations of snow cover over North America.
Penn State University Weather Pages. US weather statistics over last
10 days, offshore observations from ships, buoys, and CMAN stations,
user-submitted observations. Also connects to the Northeastern US weather
page at .
(in French)
Undecoded hourly surface reports in METAR format, mostly for Quebec,
other Canadian locations, France, but also for some US and European
cities. Profiler and radar data for Montreal. Links to other eastern
Canadian meteorological resources.
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Subject: 5) Regional US sites
NWS San Francisco Bay. Extensive current weather and forecasts for
Northern California, including marine weather and forecasts. Climate
data for California cities. Some national weather information, including
climate data for about 300 cities nationwide.
Lyndon State College, VT/Department of Meteorology. McIdas and other
weather images, including surface plots, meteograms, upper air plots,
satellite images, NGM forecast data for US. Text forecasts, skew-T, and
other data for New England.
GOES IR and VIS images over North and Central America, plus a "floater"
image which "could be anything." Also Oregon and US city forecasts,
Oregon river and road conditions.
UNC/Charlotte Earth Science server. MCIDAS and NEXRAD images for the
Southeast US, including meteorgrams, mesoscale analyses, upper-air plots,
streamlines, divergence, etc.
Everything you ever wanted to know about weather in Oklahoma
New York State forecasts, Oswego lake effect model output images
Bloomington, Indiana weather in detail
Boulder, CO weather and climate data
Colorado weather forecasts, road conditions, ski conditions
Weather and climate data and information via Northeast Regional Climate
Center's CLIMOD service (login "guest"), select "Weather" then "CLIMOD"
Northeastern US Weather Home Page (at Penn State). Satellite images,
radar, forecasts, water temperatures, etc.
Northeastern US weather data from ShareWear Inc. Satellite and NEXRAD
hourly single site images, model data, some AFOS data.
The Southern Regional Climate Center operates a gopher and telnet
site, with data mostly for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. There is some other US data available
through the telnet site (login srcc).
Forecasts and surf conditions in Hawaii
Idaho current weather information
Southern California weather maps, observations, ocean conditions
Northern Maine weather and climate data
Alaska Climate Research Center. Includes monthly summaries and weather
reviews, long term climatology, and research.
Northern Illinois Multi-County SKYWARN homepage, serving the Chicago and
Rockford, IL metropolitan areas.
------------------------------
Subject: 6) US Regional Climate Centers
Western RCC
Northeast RCC
Southeast RCC
Southern RCC
High Plains RCC
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Subject: 7) Global weather in general
Five-day forecasts for 450 cities worldwide [currently disabled]
Florida State Gopher. Undecoded synoptic surface and upper air data
from WMO stations worldwide. Surface data is at
and upper air
data is at .
Monthly climate summaries
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Subject: 8) Europe
Most of the European weather information available is limited to satellite
images and city observations. Very few European agencies make forecasts
available on the Internet.
University of Edinburgh, and several mirrors, provide IR and visible
images of Europe from Meteosat several times daily, in 1152 x 900 Sun
raster format (size of Sun root window), gif, and gpeg. The directory
"animations" contains movies in .fli and MPEG formats.
University of Reading Department of Meteorology server. Mostly images
from other sites collected here, plus animations made from these images.
Various satellite images (Meteosat, GMS, GOES), temperature and precipitation
images, ozone.
ftp://unicorn.nott.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/
Meteosat images of Europe and North Africa, and the globe, in jpeg format.
UK Met Office. UK weather and forecasts, satellite images of Europe,
UK shipping forecasts.
Surface maps for Europe. Includes: contour map (isotherms and isobars),
plotted surface observations (selected cities), maps of temperature, min
and max, precipitation, plotted snow and ship observations, and a map of
plotted Arctic observations.
Free University of Berlin Institute for Meteorology. Information is
available in German or English. Includes current Berlin weather,
latest Meteosat images, list of upcoming conferences, neatly-formatted
and organized list of these weather resources.
(in French)
Undecoded hourly surface reports in METAR format, mostly for Quebec,
other Canadian locations, France, but also for some US and European
cities.
Berlin weather (in German)
Forecast and extended forecast for Germany (in German)
Forecast for France (in French)
Five-day forecast for Sweden (in Swedish)
Forecast for Hungary (in Hungarian)
(in Dutch)
Weather in the Netherlands; also links to other European weather sites.
Some European weather reports in Dutch.
Monthly climatology and weather information for Leiden, the Netherlands.
Meteosat UK, Europe, Scandinavian visible and IR
Archive of Meteosat images over Europe
IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format
Images from Nottingham and Edinburgh sites.
Satellite images of Europe
Synoptic charts for the UK (must register)
Fair Isle station, Shetland UK. Weather and climate data from this station.
Links to European weather sites.
------------------------------
Subject: 9) Australia and New Zealand
Victoria University of Wellington Geophysics department. GMS images over
New Zealand, hourly, in jpeg format, for the last week or so.
Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Weather forecasts, reports, warnings;
satellite images and weather charts.
Australian weather observations and forecasts.
Latest NOAA AVHRR satellite images of Southern Australia.
James Cook University. GMS-4 images updated regularly for various Australian
states, Australia as a whole, the globe, the TOGA/COARE area, and events of
interest such as cyclones. The images are in a format designed for the
package JCUMetSat on Amiga computers, but can be converted to GIF format
using the ALCHEMY software (shareware) available at this site. (More
information on the format and images can be obtained from Professor C.J.
Kikkert, eecjk@marlin.jcu.edu.au.)
The University of Reading Department of Meteorology has these images
converted to GIF format and also in movie (.fli) version.
------------------------------
Subject: 10) Asia
GMS and NOAA quick look images of the area around Japan are recieved
and processed by Musiake Laboratory in Institute of Industrial Science,
University of Tokyo. The images are in a variety of formats.
GMS and NOAA images of Japan and Pacific, weather forecasts (in Kanji)
Weather Underground of Hong Kong. Current weather and forecast for Hong
Kong, China, Taiwan and major cities in the world; full-disk and regional
GMS-5 images and movies; Western North Pacific tropical cyclone information;
current weather maps and ECMWF/MRF forecast maps up to 144 hours; and other
miscellaneous information.
------------------------------
Subject: 11) South/Central America, Caribbean
Satellite images of South America
Surface plots for Caribbean, Mexico
NWS observations for Latin America can be obtained by choosing Regional
Weather Summary from the "Weather Forecast Product" menu, hitting "Select",
and choosing "Latin America". Kind of complicated, but it works.
------------------------------
Subject: 12) Antarctica
Antarctic Project Home Page. Displays of real-time meteorological and
remote sensing data.
British Antarctic Survey database. Antarctic surface weather conditions
and soundings, about a day delay. Information about the contents of this
site is in .
Observations from German Antarctic Station Neumayer (70037'S, 8022'W).
Antarctica infrared composite image
Southern hemisphere composite images
------------------------------
Subject: 13) Africa
Current weather and forecasts for South Africa
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Subject: 14) Various satellite data and archives
.
Space Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison.
Near real-time daily browse GIF images from GOES series satellites.
Antarctic and global composite images, weekly SST, forecast images,
half-hourly real-time GOES-8 vis, IR, and water vapor images over North
America, some special event images.
For information contact gopher@ssec.wisc.edu
Directory "weather.gif"images from NOAA and Meteor polar orbiting weather
satellites, maybe others. Images will remain here for a few weeks -- some
of the more exceptional images will be placed in a longer-term archive under
the subdirectory "weather.archive".
For more information, contact nasep007@sivm.si.edu (Geoff Chester).
Dundee University archive of NOAA AVHRR / HRPT images of Europe for the
last 15 years, with on-line access to lower resolution images (Quicklooks)
for the last six months, and a full resolution data service on request.
For information contact Alan Muir (asm@ua.ndu.ac.uk).
University of Hawaii Satellite Oceanography site. AVHRR images within the
radius of reception of the university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to
45 N and 125 W to 165 E, and from a station in San Diego. The processed
images are available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-12 passages. GMS
images of the full GMS coverage area and over the TOGA-COARE area are
available.
Links to North American, European, and Asian satellite image sites.
Useful because it gets everything together in one place, and contains
background information about the platforms, products, and formats.
NRL Monterey satellite photos and movies. Various research-oriented
images from GOES-9. Movie loops from GOES-8, GOES-9, and GMS.
(for use by west America)
(for use by east America, Europe)
(for use by Australia, NZ, Asia)
Visible and IR hourly GMS-5 images in gif format (neat pictures, may be
enhanced), and in hdf format (raw, intended for research), in the directory
"pub/Weather/GMS-4". Resolution is 5 km so images are 2-3 MB in size.
The hdf files have navigation information included. The "pub/Weather/GOES-7"
directory contains half-hourly visible and IR GOES-7 images in gif and hdf
formats; the IR data is 8 km resolution and the VIS is a very large 4 km
resolution. Also, "pub/Weather/GOES-8" now contains GOES-8 images.
48-hour MPEGs also available.
For more information contact medin@cincsac.arc.nasa.gov
(Milo S. Medin).
Information about GOES and polar orbiting satellites, and WEFAX equipment.
JPEG
GIF
Intermountain Digital Imaging. 640x480 AVHRR mosaic of the lower 48
states of the US for free. Other and higher resolution images for sale.
Archive: Satellite images from 1993 and 1994
Archive: 3-4 weeks of Meteor and NOAA satellite images
Archive: Meteosat images over Europe
------------------------------
Subject: 15) Specialty-oriented weather sites
These sites are intended for users with particular interests or background,
and include marine forecasts, aviation weather, and forecast products which
are more interesting to meteorologists than to lay users.
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies. Global 10-day temperature and
precipitation forecasts, medium-range forecasts, and analyses. A few
more products for North America, including current weather images. Images
of hurricanes, El Nino forecasts.
University of Wisconsin-Nonhydrostatic Modeling System home page. 48 hour
forecast VIS-5D datasets for all three model grids with a one hour animation
timestep are available for download. A map outline file and surface
topography file for our local spherical coordinate system are also available.
GIF format images of various model quantities are also available at 6 hourly
forecast intervals starting at 00 UTC and ending at 00 UTC + 48 hours.
The model is run once every day using the 00 UTC NMC eta analysis,
and uses 6 hourly eta model forecasts as boundary conditions. More info
on the specifics of the model is available through the home page.
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. Surface temperature
and precipitation, 12-hour precipitation analyses and forecasts. Also see
entry under Oceanography in research data section.
Oceanweather, Inc. current global significant wave height data and
observations.
U.S. Coast Guard. Maritime safety, GPS, radionavigation, marine weather
information.
Aviation weather -- This service is restricted to pilots only.
Various weather products are available including SA, UA, and severe weather
info. Hit '?' for help whenever you are confused by a prompt.
DUATS can also be accessed directly by 1-800-767-9989 at 9600 baud.
Aviation Weather Page. A list of aviation weather information sources.
Aviation Meteorology Committee of the National Weather Association
homepage. Includes links to aviation weather information.
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Gopher server.
US Zone forecasts by state, plus detailed forecasts and observations
for Kentucky. Also includes river conditions for central US states
under the NWS products menu. For telnet access, log in as "kyag".
Agricultural weather for Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico; Palmer drought
indices, statistics, weather summaries. Agricultural weather advisories
for much of southern US.
Institute of Medical Physics in Austria. Ultraviolet radiation
forecast in the form of UV indices for Austria, Europe, and worldwide
sites.
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Subject: 16) Severe weather
Current information:
Northern Illinois University Storm Chaser homepage. Contains a wealth of
information for serious storm chasers, such as soundings, all US and European
model forecasts, the "Supercell Index" from the operational version of the
University of Wisconsin model, as well as complete current weather
information; listings of commercial and amateur radio stations/frequencies
and TV stations worth tuning into while chasing; recommend places to eat and
sleep; the best road maps, and much more.
You will also find NWS office information, including rules, chaser
ethics, and Roger Edwards (SELS) storm chaser report form for reporting
severe weather. The latest tornado research can be found linked here to
the University of Oklahoma and NSSL, and if you need a chase partner, you
can tell others you are looking for one. Plus, information pages on the
StormTrack and TESSA (Texas Severe Storms Association) newsletters and
organizations can be found here.
Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary archive. Files are named "tlognnnn.txt"
where nnnn is the report number -- the highest report number is the most
recent (current).
Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Forecast (current and past) by W. Gray and
C. Landsea of Colorado State University. Also contains the Tropical
Cyclone FAQ by Chris Landsea.
NOAA's National Hurricane Center. Information about current tropical
cyclones, images, storm tracks, facts about hurricanes. Also links
to their archive.
Tropical Cyclone Centre (Hong Kong). Tropical cyclone tracks, images,
MPEG movies, cyclone names.
WeatherNet's tropical weather page. National Hurricane Center advisories,
recon reports, local National Weather Service statements, tracking maps,
buoy data, radar, satellite photos and much more.
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies. Images and information on
current hurricanes and tropical storms.
UofI Weather Machine hurricane and tropical storm advisories, tracks,
discussion, other information.
Charts and projections of tropical storm movement in the Atlantic, Pacific,
and Indian Ocean areas, updated every six hours.
Maps and of current tropical storms in Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean.
Also archives (see below)
Automated Weather Source, Inc. Includes page on lightning and storm
chasing, graphs of weather data taken during unusual weather events,
information about recent hurricanes and tropical storms.
Archives: Severe weather in general and other natural disasters
California Case Study and Photo Page. Includes images of the Dec 12 1995
"West Coast Bomb" and photographs of other severe weather in California.
.
Images of the east coast during the March 1993 blizzard, of the midwest
during the July 1993 flood, and others.
Midwest 1993 flood images
Blizzard of 93, hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Emily, Elena; tornado paths
"Blizzard of 93" movie in .flc format
Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93"
Various hurricane and other storm animations in .fli format
Reports and information on February 1995 flood in the Netherlands
Archives: Hurricane images, tracks, etc:
Historical tropical cyclone best track data for Atlantic and Pacific.
Also the Tropical Cyclone FAQ by Chris Landsea.
NCDC on-line image page. Images of hurricanes, tropical storms, and other
natural disasters and severe weather. Archives go back to 1970 (Hurricane
Celia) but many more images are available for more recent years.
Pictures, storm track info, and news stories about Hurricane Opal (1995).
Images and other information from Hurricanes Andrew and Emily.
Images from Hurricane Emily
Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin
Hurricane Andrew and Emily images
Hurricane Andrew images
Gordon, Emily images
Hurricane Fernanda images
Data about 1994 and 1995 tropical storms and hurricanes (no images).
Includes dates, locations, direction, speed, estimated central pressure,
maximum wind, and other information.
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Subject: 17) Climate data
The sites in this section have general-interest climate data. Users with
research needs may find the sites listed in part 3 of this FAQ, at
more useful. Also
see section 6, US Regional Climate Centers.
Utah Climate Center's interactive data retrieval of NCDC climate data.
Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0, or Netscape Navigator 2.0.
Use a clickable map or enter a lat/lon boundary set to define an area
of the globe, then pick a station out of the resulting list. Maximum
and minimum temperature and precipitation are available for a comprehensive
list of global stations. Periods of record vary, but there seems to
be several years available for most stations.
NCDC Interactive Visualization of Climate Data. Several datasets
available, including global summary of day data for 18 months, and US
summary of day data which for some stations goes back to 1869. Data
can be displayed in one of several forms, and also downloaded.
Clickable map giving climatologies for US cities: daily average climate
for that city including maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and
snowfall.
Global Climate Summaries from University of Reading. Data from various
sites and observer contributions; users are invited to contribute.
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Subject: 18) Collections of weather data links
WeatherNet is a big collection of North American weather links, images,
and information.
The Meteorology Program at Northern Illinois University's home page has
links to other weather pages by protocol (telnet, gopher, ftp, http).
ShareWear Inc. Links to many weather pages.
Free University of Berlin Institute for Meteorology. "The World-Wide Web
Virtual Library: Meteorology." A big list of pointers to many of these
weather data sources, nicely formatted but with many outdated links.
Links to many of these meteorological data sources.
"Virtual Library of Hampton Roads" weather page. Links to weather
forecasts, maps, institutions, informational articles.
Florida Tech. Links to several weather pages.
The Weather Spot. Links to many weather pages, organized by type of
data (satellite, severe, forecast, surface, climate, etc.)
Links to European weather sites.
Searchable database of atmospheric science servers.
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Subject: 19) Commercial services
JD Software's Lightning! Internet Data Server. Commercial and shareware
versions.
Weather Scratch Meteorological Services. Consulting firm specializing
in Severe Local Storm Forecasting.
WeatherWatch Magazine's WeatherStore online. Weather-related equipment
such as barometers, thermometers, rain gauges, wind indicators, etc.
Software and books.
Gold Coast Weather. Internet-based service providing weather and
oceanographic information useful in planning ocean-related activities.
Warren Faidley/Weatherstock. Commercial photographs of severe weather.
WEATHER-SENSE. Suppliers of weather-related equipment such as barometers,
thermometers, rain gauges, wind indicators, etc.
EA Technology. Lightning prediction and detection services for the UK.
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There are 7 documents in this FAQ series:
Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro
Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data
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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 US State Climatologists
Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at
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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
(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".
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.
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)
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
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.
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
Marshall Space Flight Center DAAC
Goddard DAAC
Earth Resources Observation Systems DAAC
National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC
Langley DAAC
Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC
NOAA's Satellite Active Archive
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility
The individual data centers are also listed elsewhere in this
document.
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.
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
(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 .
This is a World Data Center A for meteorology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Various monthly mean data files, including ISCCP C2 cloud data, 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.
"The Long Paddock" Climatology of Australia with focus on Queensland.
Maps of monthly rainfall, SOI, SST. Information on drought and the
southern oscillation.
Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and adjacent regions.
Western Regional Climate Center
Northeast Regional Climate Center
Southeast Regional Climate Center
Southern Regional Climate Center
High Plains Regional Climate Center
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Subject: 5) Satellite data
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.
The German Remote Sensing Data Center. Satellite images, data, and
other information.
Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility Home Page. SAR images and
derived data, AVHRR and Landsat satellite imagery.
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.
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 .
user is warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable for
publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC.
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.
Two-line element data (TLE) for a variety of satellites.
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Subject: 6) Hydrology and glaciology
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.
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 .
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. Snow cover
measurements in US and Canada, and snow water equivalent data.
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.
Ice Services Branch of Environment Canada. Information about available
products and services, and some sample data.
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.
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Subject: 7) Environmental chemistry
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.
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.
(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).
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)'s catalog of geophysical
and vegetation datasets. Several of these datasets are directly available
via this page.
Shaded relief map of USA generated from 30 arc second DEM dataset.
The Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS) has various mapping-related
information, datasets, and software.
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
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.
(login "storm", password "research")
UCAR Office of Field Project 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.
(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 kudastaff@kuda.atd.ucar.edu
Information about, and data from, the MODIS Airborne Simulator multispectral
scanner.
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.
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.
------------------------------
Subject: 10) Oceanography
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.
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.
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.
NCEP Ocean Modelling Branch. Includes global wave model forecast and
sea ice information.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography Center for Coastal Studies (CCS)
"Data Zoo". Data collected by various California coastal data collection
programs and studies.
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.
NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory. Interactive access to a
selection of ocean climatologies and real-time and historical TAO buoy data.
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.
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.
The Alfred Wegener Institute provides the Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern
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 ocean@server.ices.inst.dk.
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.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Acoustics Lab. Various
oceanography-related Matlab stuff.
Delft University of Technology. Sea surface altimetry atlas computed
from satellite data, satellite orbit determination, global windspeed and
wave height from ERS-2.
Penn State University Offshore Weather Data Page. Offshore weather data
from buoys, ships, and CMAN stations. 36-hour archive, updates every
15 minutes.
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.
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.
Global current marine observations and significant wave height map.
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.
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:
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Subject: 11) Miscellaneous data
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
Data about human interactions in global environmental change from many
sources.
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
Viking, Magellan, and Voyager data, and various earth-from-space images
and information.
MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse
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Subject: 12) Software and documentation
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.
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.
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.
Steve Baum's collection of information about, and links to, software
for graphical presentation and numerical analysis of oceanographical
and meteorological data.
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 .
contains a general n-stream
radiative transport equation solver.
Unidata Program Center. Decoders for for SAO, METAR, RAOBs; WXP;
NetCDF; units converter; and other software available.
Various software and utilities, including Skew T log P charting software,
GRIB decode software, grid interpolation codes, US standard atmosphere
calculation.
This FTP site at Florida State University is a repository for public domain
software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric scientists.
WeatherNet software archive. Many popular weather related shareware
and freeware programs, including WeatherGraphix, HurrTrk, RAOB, WxView,
Sharp, WinWeather, Blue-Skies.
Code for the NCAR/CGD Community Climate Model.
wxgrfx41a.zip (shareware version of WeatherGraphix 4.1a, a weather plotting
and analysis program) and hurricane tracking software.
Various weather software for Mac and PC.
Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program
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.