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Chapter 9 Weather and Climate
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The
US Environmental Protection Agency’s ozone science information:
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Offers an extensive
listing of links to all aspects of ozone science at different levels
from basic fact sheets to more advanced studies. Not updated since
June 1998, but has links to ozone sites that are frequently updated.
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/science.html
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The
Union of Concerned Scientists’ ozone depletion site:
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Access via the
UCS site map, "Global Resources" section, "ozone depletion" sub-section.
Contains useful summaries, fact sheets and links.
http://www.ucsusa.org/resources/ozone.html |
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The
US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Adminstration’s (NOAA)
hurricane main page:
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All you
could want on hurricanes!
http://hurricanes.noaa.gov/ |
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The
US NOAA Climate Prediction Center site:
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A huge site, for information on and
analysis of all short-term climate fluctuations. Main topics include
drought monitoring, forecasts, ENSO updates; Antarctic ozone hole
updates, US temperature and precipitation trends, 1999 global climate
highlights, a famine early warning system for Africa, and more.
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/index.html
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The
US NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s ENSO main page:
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Perhaps the main source for up-to-date
information on El Niño/La Niña (ENSO) developments. Gives current
status and forecasts, as well as analyses of recent past events,
regional analyses and an historical section.
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/
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The
Union of Concerned Scientists’ global warming site:
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THE UCS global warming site is within
the "Global Resources" section. A relatively small site, but with
interesting content on both the science and the international politics
of global warming.
http://www.ucsusa.org/warming/index.html
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TOMS
(Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer) satellite information:
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A NASA site, TOMS has now expanded
to provide images not only of ozone, but also of UV, aerosols and
reflectivity levels. There is an interesting news section; downloadable
multimedia files, teaching resources and an extensive archive of
imagery from the Nimbus satellite (1978–93), Meteor (1991–94) and
Earth Probe (1996–present): just choose your satellite, your preferred
image type and your date!
http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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The
UK Meteorological Office home page:
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An excellent site: use for UK and
world weather forecasts, UK weather warnings and world weather news.
Good information sections on the UK climate (lots of statistics!);
education (for how forecasts are made; how automatic weather stations
work; and lots of facts on tropical cyclones); research (including
ozone); news; and links.
http://www.meto.govt.uk/home.html
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USA
Today, Weather:
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Keep an eye on the weather in the
USA via this easy-reading US on-line newspaper site with excellent
graphics; also contains detailed world weather forecasts, world
weather news and information on Antarctica, hurricanes, tornados,
etc.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm
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The
BBC Weather Centre:
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Another good site with information
ranging from the current weather forecast to historical aspects
of weather forecasting. Some good articles in the "Features" section.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather
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