Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro

Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro	Tom Berg
Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of US State Climatologists	Tom Berg
Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs	Tom Berg
Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources	Tom Berg
Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data	Tom Berg
Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Sources of weather data	Tom Berg
Meteorology FAQ Part 3/7: Sources of research data	Tom Berg

From: Tom Berg Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 1/7: Intro Date: 29 Dec 2004 05:28:17 GMT Archive-name: meteorology/faq-intro 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 you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email. I DO NOT MAINTAIN A MAILING LIST SO PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR ME TO SEND YOU COPIES AT EACH UPDATE UNLESS YOU ARE ARCHIVING IT FOR PUBLIC USAGE OR FURTHER REDISTRIBUTION! Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Tom Berg at hcane@mobile.gulf.net. Please include in your message where you read this document. Note that if I know about it, it's in this document. 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 These faqs are also stored in the general USENET FAQ repositories, for example and . ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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. 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 ------------------------------ 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 These faqs are also stored in the general USENET FAQ repositories, for example . 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. ------------------------------ 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 Netscape or Explorer. From: Tom Berg Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 7/7: List of US State Climatologists Date: 29 Dec 2004 05:28:18 GMT Archive-name: meteorology/state-climatologists Last-modified: 1 April 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 you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email. I DO NOT MAINTAIN A MAILING LIST SO PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR ME TO SEND YOU COPIES AT EACH UPDATE UNLESS YOU ARE ARCHIVING IT FOR PUBLIC USAGE OR FURTHER REDISTRIBUTION! 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 . 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 Tom Berg at hcane@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) State Climatologists 4) Regional Climate Centers ------------------------------ 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, JHUGHES@ncdc.noaa.gov. Key to abbreviations: T = Telephone O = Omnet F = Fax B = Bitnet TM = Telemail I = Internet URL = www URL ------------------------------ 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.mcnider@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: auclima@uaa.alaska.edu Arizona Dr. Anthony J. Brazel Laboratory of Climatology Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1508 T: 602-965-6265 B: abrazel@asu.edu 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: jghehr@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: nolan@ulysses.atmos.colostate.edu (Nolan Doesken, Asst. SC) 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 Florida Dr. Kevin Kloesel Dept of Meteorology Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-3034 T: 904-644-1268 I: kloesel@met.fsu.edu Georgia Dr. Bill Bell State Climate Office Driftmier Engineering Center University of Georgia T: 706-542-6067 F: 706-542-8806 I: climate@bae.uga.edu 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: climate@uidaho.edu 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: wayne@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: kscheeringa@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: gg024004@wkuvx1.wku.edu 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: jgrymes@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: alan@atmos.umd.edu I: climate@atmos.umd.edu for climate information 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: scmifred@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: jzandlo@soils.umn.edu Mississippi Dr. Charles L. Wax MS State Climatologist Drawer 5167 Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39762 T: 601-325-3915 I: clw4@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_hu@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: ussjc@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: agme003@unlvm.bitnet I: agme003@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: bdk@hopper.unh.edu 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: drobins@gandalf.rutgers.edu New Mexico No S.C. at this time; the New Mexico Climate Center is at NMSU 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 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_raman@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: jrogers@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: ocs@ou.edu 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: oregon@ats.orst.edu Pennsylvania Paul Knight 606 Walker Building University Park, PA 16802 T: 814-863-4229 I: knight@psumeteo.psu.edu 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: ltn101@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: helfert@water.dnr.state.sc.us South Dakota Mr. Alan R. Bender AG Engineering Dept. South Dakota State University Brookings, SD 57007 T: 605-688-5678 F: 605-688-4917 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: jfgriff@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: djensen@cc.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_lind@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 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: marka@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: stclim@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: rwrwwrc@wyocdcl.bitnet ------------------------------ 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: wrcc@wrcc.sage.dri.edu (generic) I: rrwrcc@wrcc.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-kunkel@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: knapp@metvax.cit.cornell.edu 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: rmuller@maestro.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: khubbard@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: helfert@water.dnr.state.sc.us From: Tom Berg Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 4/7: Sources of CD-ROMs Date: 29 Dec 2004 05:28:18 GMT Archive-name: meteorology/cdroms Last-modified: 1 April 2000 Recent changes: ==within last two weeks== ==within last four weeks== This article is copyright (c) 20000 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 . 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 hcane@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) 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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 orders@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 frank@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: nsidc@kryos.colorado.edu, Omnet: NSIDC. ------------------------------ 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 datahelp@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 info@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 orders@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, kreitzcw@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 daacuso@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 jrslack@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: nsidc@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 helphdf@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 tim@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, sfw@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 podaac@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, userserv@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, sales@lenticular.com. ------------------------------ 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 goes@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 advunit@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 sales@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 rmdp@sni.net From: Tom Berg Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 6/7: Print and other resources Date: 29 Dec 2004 05:28:18 GMT Archive-name: meteorology/print-resources Last-modified: 1 April 2000 Recent changes: ==within last two weeks== ==within last four weeks== This article is copyright (c) 2000 by Tom Berg. 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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 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 hcane@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) 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ Subject: 3) Books readable by English-reading nonprofessionals "Where to Read about Climate Change" is a list of recommended books and articles available at . "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 chaston111@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 chaston111@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 metservices@wxscratch.com or phone (205) 766-8464, fax (205) 766-8464, WWW ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ Subject: 5) Magazines readable by nonprofessionals AER, Meteorologia/Climatologia/Agrometeorologia/Ambiente (in Italian) La Météorologie La Recherche (sometimes) Scientific American (occasionally) Weather email brugge@met.reading.ac.uk (Roger Brugge) WeatherWatch email WXCENTRAL@AOL.COM Weatherwise ------------------------------ 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 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) ------------------------------ 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) ------------------------------ 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: is an index to Internet- accessible supplements to published papers. Such supplements include datasets, plots, source code, and so on. is an introduction to the "eprint archive" (electronic preprints) coordinated by GFDL for the atmospheric science community. ------------------------------ Subject: 9) Professional Societies American Meteorological Society American Geophysical Union Association professionelle des meteorologistes du Quebec 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: cap@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 European Geophysical Society PB 49, Max-Planck-Str 1 D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau Phone: (+49 5556) 1440, Fax: (+49 5556 4709) email: egs@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: natweaasoc@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 Royal Meteorological Society 104 Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7LJ, UK Phone: 01734 568500 (from within UK) Fax: 01734 568571 (from within UK) Société météorologique de France 2, avenue Rapp 75 340 Paris Cedex 07 From: Tom Berg Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data Date: 29 Dec 2004 05:28:17 GMT Archive-name: meteorology/weather-data 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 . 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 hcane@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) 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ Subject: 3) Collections of weather data links WeatherNet is a big collection of North American weather links, images, and information. North American weather links including marine and tropical data. Allentown Weather Center. Links to many weather data sources worldwide including climate data. Text-browser friendly. The WWW Virtual Library -- Meteorology. (Formerly at the Free University of Berlin) The Weather Spot. Links to many weather pages, organized by type of data (satellite, severe, forecast, surface, climate, etc.) Mostly US. The Weather Resource. Links to many weather pages, and to forecasts, movies, etc. Frames. The Mining Company weather page has links and reviews of weather related web pages, plus articles. Links to European weather sites. Links to Australian weather sites. Searchable database of atmospheric science servers. ------------------------------ Subject: 4) US Regional Climate Centers Western RCC Northeast RCC Southeast RCC Southern RCC High Plains RCC ------------------------------ Subject: 5) US State Climatologists NOAA's official list of US state climatologists. From: Tom Berg Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 5/7: Sources of weather data Date: 29 Dec 2004 05:28:19 GMT Archive-name: meteorology/net-resources 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 . 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 hcane@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) 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. ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ Subject: 3) Newsgroups and WWW bulletin boards General discussion of meteorology; current and historic weather phenomena, hurricanes, ENSO, and so on. Discussion of geophysical fluid dynamics. General discussion of oceanography, including but not limited to physical oceanography. Discussion of data formats used in the sciences, including meteorology. General discussion of geology; earthquakes, formations, and so on. Discussion of Geographic Information Systems. Discussion of chaos, nonlinear systems. Discussion of global warming, ozone depletion, anthropogenic effects, social impacts, ecology, and so on. In practice, barely distinguishable from talk.environment. Discussion of image processing. Ranting and raving about global warming, ozone depletion, anthropogenic effects, social impacts, ecology, and so on. Discussion of weather in the Northeastern United States (particularly New England). Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it... UK and European weather discussion. WWW-based message board on the subject of weather. WWW-based chat on the subject of weather. 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. ------------------------------ 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 johnson@arc.ab.ca or see . To subscribe, send a message containing the line "SUBSCRIBE AHP_ARCHIVE-L" to MAILSERVE@ARC.AB.CA. For information on how to use the list, send a mail message to MAILSERV@ARC.AB.CA with one line containing "HELP". To get a list of the addresses on the list, send a message to MAILSERV@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 (gregoire.dubois@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 Majordomo@gis.psu.edu. There is also a homepage, which includes an archive of past postings, at . 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. 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If you have any problems or questions send mail to dennis@bibo.met.fu-berlin.de. Though the list is situated in Germany the language is English. Weather-users (administered by scott@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 (sdm@downwind.sprl.umich.edu) has agreed to send Weather Underground status notices to this list. To join or quit the list, email to weather-users-request@zorch.sf-bay.org; the list mail address is weather-users@zorch.sf-bay.org. WXOBS-SNE-DIGEST (run by Toddg@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-DIGEST-REQUEST@SHORE.NET with "SUBSCRIBE" in the body of the message. WXOBS-MDA (run by wxcentrl@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-mda-request@greatbasin.com. In the body of the message, include "SUBSCRIBE". To send information to the list, mail to wxobs-mda@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-archive@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 . Subscription requests go to wxsat-request@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 LISTSERV@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 aijhf@asuvm.inre.asu.edu, or aijhf@ASUACAD (via Bitnet). ------------------------------ Subject: 5) Institutional home pages -- non-US World Meteorological Organization (WMO) International Weather Watchers International Society of Biometeorology European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit Environment Canada home page (Toronto, ON). Contains links to other Environment Canada servers: Environment Canada - Green Lane (Ottawa) Environment Canada - Bedford, Nova Scotia Environment Canada - Vancouver, British Columbia Great Lakes Information Management Resource Canada Centre for Inland Waters Deutscher Wetterdienst (German weather service) Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany Royal Meteorological Institute (Belgium) Meteo-France (French weather service) UK Meteorological Office British Antarctic Survey BBC Weather Centre Chilbolton Radar Facilty, Radio Communications Research Unit at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Royal Meteorological Society Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) Dutch Weather Service The Australian Oceanographic Data Centre The CSIRO (Australia) Division of Oceanography Australia Bureau of Meteorology Bureau of Meteorology Research (Australia) Meteorological Service of New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (New Zealand) Meteorological Research Institute (Japan) ------------------------------ Subject: 6) Institutional home pages -- US US Government sites: NASA system-wide home page NASA Goddard Climate and Radiation Branch National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center National Severe Storms Laboratory Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Climate Centers: Western RCC Northeast RCC Southeast RCC Southern RCC High Plains RCC Other institutions: Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution California Department of Water Resources home page U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) Program for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercomparison (PCMDI) of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) American Meteorological Society American Geophysical Union Department of Earth Sciences at the State University of New York at Brockport Purdue University Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Science ------------------------------ 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. National Weather Association job listings. Includes broadcast meteorology, forecasting, research. 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. Meteorological Employment Journal, listing current meteorological and related scientific job opportunities. Updated weekly. 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. UCAR News job anouncements. Includes information on applying for jobs at NCAR/UCAR, a list of vacancies, and archives of job announcements. Vacancy listing for GIS/GPS/Remote Sensing professionals. ------------------------------ Subject: 8) Educational resources for teachers Also see section 9, information on meteorology topics. Software and documents in support of computer-aided learning in meteorology; it is associated with the CALMET mailing list (described in the Resources FAQ). Nebraska Earth Science Education Network pages contain a variety of lesson plans and projects for teaching earth science. 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 . University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)'s pointers to educational resources for K-12, undergraduate/postgraduate, and general public science literacy. Automated Weather Source Inc.'s Nationwide School Weather Network. Some resources ("Virtual Schoolhouse") are under development. Thematic unit for weather for grades two through four. Lessons in various subjects with a weather theme. "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. 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. BBC Weather Centre's "children's weather" page. Course in building a weather station and other children-oriented weather information. National Snow and Ice Data Center information on the Blizzard of '96 for k-12 students. ------------------------------ Subject: 9) Information on meteorology topics General: 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. 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. The American Geophysical Union's "Science for Everyone": selected papers from AGU about earth science topics. Robert Grumbine's collection of Science FAQs. Climate change, ozone, CO2, and other information. Ozone: Robert Parson's Ozone Depletion FAQ Stratospheric Ozone Law, Information & Science page. Links to policy information and scientific information on the ozone layer and the ozone hole. 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: Bob Grumbine's Sea Level, Ice, and Greenhouses FAQ Climate Change Basics article by Jan Schloerer. CO2 rise article by Jan Schloerer. El Nino: El Nino theme page, from NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory (PMEL). Information about El Nino / Southern Oscilation. 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: Chris Landsea's Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Storms FAQ