Introductory Meteorology Resources
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DP | Thinning of Arctic Sea Ice | |||
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http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/30.htm Changes in Arctic ice. | ||||
Topics in Precipitation Type Forecasting | ||||
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This COMET module presents an overview of various aspects of precipitation type forecasting. It includes sections on microphysics and the ice crystal process, application of partial thickness analysis, application of the top-down method, and an overview of model algorithms used for precipitation type analysis. | ||||
DP | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) | |||
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http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Official Website for information, data, and images from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on Aura and the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments using Version 8 of the TOMS processing algorithm. | ||||
DP | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Site | |||
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http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/multi/min_ozone.jpg http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/multi/oz_hole_area.jpg Satellite ozone maps and data. | ||||
SR | Tropical Cyclones/Hurricanes | |||
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Tutorials Topics * Tropical Weather * Formation of Worldwide Tropical Cyclones and Paths * Structure, Genesis and Stages * Variability of North Atalantic Tropical Cyclones * Hurricane Katrina and Effcts * El Nino effects on Tropical cyclones Hurricane Tracking Simulator http://www.meted.ucar.edu/hurrican/movncane The Hurricane Track Simulator is based on a simplification of the basic factors that cause hurricanes to move. The primary effect is that the storm simply moves with the wind from the much larger weather systems surrounding the storm. These weather systems are represented by idealized easterly (from east to west) trade winds near the equator, westerly winds further north, the Bermuda high pressure system, and a low pressure area near the U.S. east coast. In reality, the structure of the wind surrounding the storm is much more complicated and changes with time as the hurricane moves. Also, the northwesterly drift due to the storm is much more variable than that included in the hurricane simulator. However, these simplified wind patterns are able to generate reasonable storm tracks. | ||||
DP | Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer | |||
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http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/atmchem/recent_events/Scientific%20Assessment.pdf PDF file about ozone. | ||||
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DP | USGS Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change | |||
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http://earthshots.usgs.gov/ Earthshots comes from the EROS Data Center (EDC), a U.S. Geological Survey facility outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota. | ||||
DP | USGS Mount Pinatubo, Philippines Photo Archives | |||
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http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Philippines/Pinatubo/images.html Images of Mt. Pinatubo eruption | ||||
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DP | Visible Earth - Ozone Distruction | |||
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http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/56/ozone_destruction_final.mov Ozone destruction method movie. | ||||
DP | Visualization Analysis Lab | |||
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http://val.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://val.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/cloud_movies/wv_color1_t_sf.qt VAL does visualizations for science, education, and outreach, and "do" here is full-service, from producing the actual visuals, to working to define the visuals and the story that they support, to using/learning/finding/programming the software that builds the visuals, to buying/adapting/caring for the hardware, to working with users to find/define/promote concepts that can be visualized. | ||||