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From: hcane@mobile.gulf.net (Tom Berg)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: Meteorology FAQ Part 2/7: Sources of weather data
Reply-To: hcane@mobile.gulf.net
Summary: Weather data available via the Internet
Date: 17 Apr 2004 11:28:27 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 <URL:http://www.mobile.gulf.net/~hcane/met/scigeo.html>.

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

<URL:http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/>
  WeatherNet is a big collection of North American weather links, images,
and information.

<URL:http://www.comet.net/weather/>
  North American weather links including marine and tropical data.

<URL:http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/weather.html>
  Allentown Weather Center.  Links to many weather data sources worldwide
including climate data.  Text-browser friendly.

<URL:http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/WWW_Virtual_Library/>
  The WWW Virtual Library -- Meteorology.  (Formerly at the
Free University of Berlin)

<URL:http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~klee/Enforcer/wx-spot1.html>
  The Weather Spot.  Links to many weather pages, organized by type of
data (satellite, severe, forecast, surface, climate, etc.)  Mostly US.

<URL:http://www.nxdc.com/weather/>
  The Weather Resource.  Links to many weather pages, and to forecasts,
movies, etc.  Frames.

<URL:http://weather.miningco.com>
  The Mining Company weather page has links and reviews of weather
related web pages, plus articles.

<URL:http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~brugge/index.html> 
  Links to European weather sites.

<URL:http://www.ozemail.com.au/~wbc/>
  Links to Australian weather sites.

<URL:http://atmos.es.mq.edu.au/MACISS/query.html> 
  Searchable database of atmospheric science servers.



Subject: 4) US Regional Climate Centers

<URL:http://climate.sage.dri.edu>
  Western RCC

<URL:http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html>
  Northeast RCC

<URL:http://sercc.dnr.state.sc.us/sercc.html>
  Southeast RCC

<URL:http://maestro.srcc.lsu.edu/srcc.html>
  Southern RCC

<URL:http://hpccsun.unl.edu/>
  High Plains RCC



Subject: 5) US State Climatologists

<URL:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/aasc.html>
  NOAA's official list of US state climatologists.

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