Chapter 9 Weather and Climate

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s ozone science information:

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


The Union of Concerned Scientists’ ozone depletion site:

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

The US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Adminstration’s (NOAA) hurricane main page:

All you could want on hurricanes!
http://hurricanes.noaa.gov/

The Earth Space Research Group’s Indian Ocean monsoon scenario:

An excellent teaching module on the IOM, its causes, consequences and significance; includes a useful quiz at the end.
http://www.crseo.ucsb.edu/esrg/IOM2/Begin_IOM_scenario.html

ESRG’s El Niño Scenario:

An excellent teaching module on El Niño, with good text and graphics.
http://www.crseo.ucsb.edu/geos/el_nino.html

The US NOAA Climate Prediction Center site:

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


The US NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s ENSO main page:

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/


The US Environmental Protection Agency global warming site:

Perhaps the world’s largest global warming website (from the world’s greatest contributor to global warming).
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/index.html


The Union of Concerned Scientists’ global warming site:

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


The greenhouse effect:

Gives a straightforward account of the greenhouse effect, together with a set of useful links.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5173/greenhouse_effect.html


TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer) satellite information:

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/


The UK Meteorological Office home page:

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


USA Today, Weather:

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


The BBC Weather Centre:

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