Welcome to the Case Study Links page. These are some key places to go to for weather information when you want to undertake a case study (i.e., examine a particular current or imminent weather event in detail). The listing is alphabetical and is NOT yet complete.
We hope this listing helps you more easily find the weather information you are looking for.
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Until then, happy "surfing"!
Mike & Barbara (How the Weatherworks educators)
A - ALLENTOWN WEATHER CENTER - Links
http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/weather.html
So many things here that you'll need a month of Sundays to examine
them; great site for links and weather data!
B - Baron services - weather radars
http://www.baronservices.com/Products/IRIS/iris.html
A listing of tv stations which use a Baron Service's radar. Without
a map, harder to use than Intellicast, but useful data once you
know where to look.
C - FLEET NUMERICAL METEOROLOGY AND
OCEANOGRAPHY CENTER
http://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/
The U.S. Navy prepares weather and oceanographic forecasts, also.
This web site includes forecast weather map products for places
around the world. The maps are a bit "busy," so be sure
you fully understand what weather or oceanographic variable you
are looking at.
D - FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY - Tropical
Cyclone Information Page
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html
Latest information on Atlantic tropical cyclones. Also includes
climatology, tropical weather map analyses, and more. If http://www.nws.fsu.edu/tropical/ or http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ doesn't work, this is a great alternative site.
E- ILLINOIS, UNIVERSITY OF .. AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
- all types of data
http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/covis/visualizer
Interactive site with numerous options including surface and upper
air weather map plots and analyses, satellite image overlays,
and upper air soundings. Maps can be plotted on a white background
for easier printing. However, font on surface and upper air maps
is somewhat difficult to read.
F - Institute of Global Environment
and Society (IGES) - NUMERICAL MODELS
http://grads.iges.org/pix/wx.html
Computer-generated weather and forecast maps from data supplied
by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction of the National
Weather Service, NOAA.
G - MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF - Weather
Sites
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/servers.html
Links to more than 300 weather sites across North America.
H - NASA - GOES Project Science
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/
GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
As the title suggests, this is a list of places to visit which
have a space-based weather satellite focus. The list is long and
doesn't have site decsriptions, but.....
I - NOAA/NESDIS - Meteorology and
Oceanographic Satellite Program
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
Real-time and retrospective GOES imagery for up to 21 days; also,
some significant event imagery and imagery from other weather
satellites around the world.
J - NOAA/NWS - Field Offices
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/box/NWSpages.html
If you want to get to a National Weather Service Office's home
page, try this listing.
K - NOAA/NWS - Interactive Page
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/main.html
Current warnings, forecast weather tables, more. Or go
to the page which has animations (e.g., 6-hour satellite loops).
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/rbigmain.html
L - NOAA/NWS - Internet Weather Source
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/curcond.html
Current and recent historical weather observations.
M - NOAA/NWS - National Centers for
Environmental Prediction
http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/
Links to Tropical Prediction
Center (TPC), Storm
Prediction Center (SPC), Climate Prediction
Center, more. Surface weather maps are at http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/fcst2.html.
You will need to click on the surface weather maps link and then
the forwarding link to reach the actual surface weather map page.
N - NOAA/NWS - Selected Temperature
and Precipitation Tables
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/us/tempprecip.html
Yesterday's observed temperature and precipitation and the two
day forecast for more than 100 U.S. cities. Although the data
is more extensive than that found in many newspapers, it is difficult
to read because of non-uniform formatting.
O - NOAA/NWS - Storm Prediction Center
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/
Current severe weather outlooks, watches, and discussions.
P - NOAA/NWS - Tropical Cyclone Information
Pages
http://www.nws.fsu.edu/tropical/
and http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Latest information on Atlantic tropical cyclones. Includes storm
history, strike probabilities, satellite images, buoy data and
more!!! If http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html doesn't work, this is an alternative site.
Q - NOAA/NWS - Washington, DC area
office
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/lwx/
Obviously, lots of local Washington, DC area "stuff."
Many links for obtaining forecast and observational data nationwide.
Links to both domestic and International weather sites.
R - PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY WEATHER CENTER
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/
This one is an easy-to-navigate and interactive site with an incredible array of data. Using a frames format, you can locate observed weather maps (including "create your own" back more than 24 hours), soundings, forecasts, and much more. National map plot with station model data is a bit crowded, but regional maps are "perfect". I'm still learning what is at this site, but I don't think you'll be disappointed with what you find.
S - UNISYS Corporation - WEATHER PAGES
http://weather.unisys.com/
Surface and upper air data, weather maps, satellite images (12
hour history plus animation), and computer model forecasts. At
present only US satellite views. Need to click on current satellite
image to see the menu for recent suite of other recent images.
T - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - satellite
imagery
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif
It's an awesome global, colorized, infra-red (temperature) view
of a prolate spheroid-shaped Earth based on satellite imagery.
Nope, the Earth hasn't been flattened, the shape has to do with
how the data is collected and displayed.
U - US Weather Pages
http://www.uswx.com/us/wx
Easy-to-navigate and interactive site with an incredible array
of data. There are state by state temperature-dew point maps,
historical hourly data, Intellicast links, a daily climate almanac,
and much more. Click on the surface weather map and you will be
transported to the state weather page; click on a station shown
and you'll find an incredible wealth of data including 2 day to
2 month plots of temperature, humidity and pressure.
V - WSI Corporation / Intellicast
- WEATHER RADAR
http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/Radar/
Great United States radar image. Click anywhere on the map and
it will take you to that area's local radar display!! Other weather
information, as well, including Doppler radar velocity maps.
W - the WASHINGTON POST
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Local, national, and global weather information; news articles
leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of significant weather
events.
X - the WEATHER CHANNEL
http://www.weather.com/index.html
Links to the computer side of the television weather station;
good source of surface weather observations, radar data, and other
"stuff".
Y - WEATHERIMAGES - weather links
and sky cameras
http://www.weatherimages.org/index.html#top
Mark Brooks has put together an impress compilation of weather
web sites. These are nicely organized and contain many great linkages.
His "sky
cams" list for the US and the world
is especially impressive.
Z - WRC-TV - Channel 4 TV
http://wxnet4.nbc4.com
Lots of great information for the local Washington, DC area and
nationally; satellite imagery, radar pictures, and much more.
This page was updated on October 17, 2005.
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