Environmental News Network --Excellent daily or weekly digest of what's happening in the world regarding the enviroment. I recommend getting a free email subscription.
News releases re 9/2007 IPCC report http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=6620&Method=Full
General Climatology
Climate Animations from the Univ of Oregon Geography Dept.
http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/U.S. Drought Monitor, present conditions and animations
Animation of North American Polar Jet Stream, Live Data, SF State
http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.htmlNCDC Online Climate Data Directory (free access to data from an .edu email address)
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center - causes of climate variations
http://www.cdc.noaa.govIRI/LDEO Climate Data Library -- check out the Map Room
NOAA El Niño-Southern Oscillation Home Page
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/The Ozone Hole Tour --Univ. of Cambridge, Centre for Atmospheric Science
http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/
History and Science of the Ozone Hole over Antarctica, educational modules on concepts of ozone depletion.
NASA TotalOzone Mapping Spectrometer Real Time Data --
Interesting images of ozone concentrations and aerosols, world wide, as of today
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, with useful links
EPA, Ozone Depletion
http://www.epa.gov/ozoneWestern Regional Climate Center, Cornell University
http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/other_rcc.htmlAlaska Climate Research Center Home Page
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Encyclopedia of the Atmosphere, a British offering for both elementary and more advanced readers
Online Guides -- http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/home.rxml
Instructional Resources in Meteorology, Remote Sensing, and Reading and Interpreting Weather Maps
Cloud Guide -- http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml
University of Illinois; Complete guide to different types of clouds, illustrations
Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric environment -- http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/index.html
a British offering, with both elementary and more advanced definitions and discussions. Includes a special guide for students of global climate change.Local climate sites:
California Climate Summary -- NOAA site
Climate Data forCalifornia -- and elsewhere, even international
Bay Area office of National Weather ServiceClimate of Sonoma County
http://libweb.sonoma.edu/regional/climate/(Reprint of 1964 document by C. Robert Elford)
Weather, forecasts, images
Unisys Weather -- good source for satellite images, hurricane updates, sea surface temps, loops
http://weather.unisys.com/Intellicast, WSI Corporation and Photodisc, weather around the world
http://www.intellicast.comThe Weather Channel
http://www.weather.comWeather Underground
http://www.wunderground.com/Univ. of Michigan Weather Underground - Weathernet, weather and satellite images
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/radsat.htmlNational Weather Service's Interactive Weather Information Network
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/Weather Zone, Australia
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/
Weather Phenomena
Extreme Weather and Climate Events. National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/extremes.htmlEl Niño 1997-98 and California Precipitation. San Francisco State Univ. Dept. of Geosciences
http://tornado.sfsu.edu/geosciences/elnino/elnino.htmlHurricane Hunters Home Page - Air Force Reserves weather reconnaissance squad
http://www.hurricanehunters.comLightning & Atmospheric Electricity Research
http://thunder.msfc.nasa.govNational Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)- weather, conditions, severe & tropical, etc.
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory -- research on tornadoes, thunderstorms, weather warnings
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/Global Change and Past Climate
Global Change Research Program
(U.S. Geological Survey--Good source for paleoclimate research, including data sets of current research and records of past climate change. Also includes Arid and Semiarid Regions Research, Cold Regions Research, Interaction of Climate and Hydrologic Systems, and a searchable index.)
http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/Global Change Master Directory
(NASA's comprehensive source of information about satellite and in situ Earth science data, with broad coverage of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, oceans, solid earth, and biosphere.)
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/PAGES (Past Global Changes) -- One of the core projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme--IGBP
http://www.pages.unibe.ch/CIESIN -- Center for International Earth Science Information Network: Interdisciplinary data sources re humans interactions with the natural environment
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - links to reports, information on IPCC
http://www.ipcc.ch/Center for Global Change Science, MIT - fundamental processes of global change
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/c/cgcs/www/index.htmlNOAA Paleoclimatology Program
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.htmlEPA Climate Change web site, calculate your Carbon contribution
http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.htmlWarnings from the Ice. NOVA program from WGBH, Boston
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/warnings/USGS Earthshots -- Satellite Images of Environmental Change
(Check out the break-up of the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica)
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontentsIce Ages Museum - Illinois State Museum, exhibits with good images.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/Pew Center: Global Warming Facts and Figures on Climate Change
http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/facts_and_figures/
Global Warming Controversy, skeptics views
Global Warming Information Page - skeptics views, the best I've seen thus far
http://www.globalwarming.org/gw101Open Directory Project, pages on climate change, skeptics views
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Environment/Opposing_Views/Climate_Change_Skeptics/
Climate Change Facts Page -- opposing views of climate change, under-reported media stories
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