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Links to climatology & paleoclimatology resources including data sites, climate modeling groups, documents, and a glossary.
Comprehensive resource guide to environmental information available on the Internet; divided into the following categories: air, earth, water, fire, and flora & fauna.
A NOAA site containing links to primary data sources, forecasts, maps, images, & the national weather research centers and other related agencies.
WeatherNet is the premier source of weather information; provides access to forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links.
An atmospheric & oceanic sciences Internet resource locator for science & policy sites; provided by the NOAA .
Find links to information about AGU's meetings, publications, news items, or access its archives which includes journal table of contents, a complete index to all AGU journals, books, and publications, a meetings database, & a FTP dataset archive.
Information about services, programs, publications, meetings, & policies.
The Center disseminates factual reports & commentary on new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine the climatic & biological consequences of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content.
Site includes information on the origin of the NIE, its accomplishments, its current activities, as well as sections on membership, fund-raising, and financial & legislative sponsors.
Provides links to IGAC's field efforts, programs, conferences, meetings, workshops, & its structure. http://www.igac.noaa.gov/
Access to Web sites maintained by or for scholarly environmental and atmospheric science societies around the world.
Includes information on publications, journals and awards.
This U.N. organization site offers a News Centre, official weather forecasts from around the world, and information for members.
The National Agricultural Library's Web gateway provides access to materials relating to all aspects of agriculture from 1984 forward; also includes citations on topics such as the effects of acid rain & climate change on plant species & plant communities; University at Albany students, faculty, & staff can also access FirstSearch's AGRICOLA which goes back to 1970.
An alphabetical listing of bibliographic databases and indexes for atmospheric sciences.
A comprehensive bibliography of the peer-reviewed literature dealing with climate change & its effects on water resources & water systems worldwide.
A bibliography of peer-reviewed & gray literature focusing on climate change & its impacts on flora and fauna species and critical supporting ecosystems.
A selection of Albany weather from the National Weather Service Forecast Office.
A collection of Albany weather sites from the Library Web page.
Provides current conditions, hourly weather forecast, and offers up to 15 day forecast for Albany.
Provides brief data back to 1988 for Albany, NY.
A collection of Regional Climate Centers, including the Northeast, High Plains, Midwestern, Southeast, Southern and Western Regional Climate Centers. Northeast Climate links including drought and snowfall.
Connect to State Climate Offices in the U.S., including New York State. Provided information varies by state.
AIRS (Aerometric Information Retrieval System) is a database of air quality data collected by federal, state, & local air pollution control agencies throughout the U.S.
BADC provides access to an array of physical and chemical atmospheric data sets for researchers. Sponsored by NERC (National Environment Research Council).
Find information about climate analysis, aerosols, clouds, rainfall, & remote sensing; includes a search engine for the site.
GCMD contains descriptions of and access information for over 3,900 earth science data sets; areas covered include atmosphere, oceans, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, land surface, solid earth, solar-terrestrial, & human dimensions of climate change.
Search through almost 1,000 cities worldwide in more than 200 countries & territories to find monthly historical weather data including average tempertures, normal precipatation, average snowfall, average wind speed, percentage of days with sunshine, mean number of clear days, & mean number of days below 32 degrees F.
A collection of weather satellite imagery from NASA.
A data catalog & library of data sets with an interface to make plots, tables, or files from any data set .
This system allow you to browse & extract data from a large library of gridded climate data; output can be formated into color graphics, spreadsheets, or data files.
Collection of radiation budget, cloud, aerosol, & tropospheric data; contains recent & archival data sets.
acess to NCDC products, publications, & services including CLIMVIS (Climate Visualization System), an interactive visualization/data browse tool for climate data
NGDC manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice); in each of these fields NGDC also operates a World Data Center.
This site organizes NOAA's satellite information; it features NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS), NOAA's CoastWatch Program, & hundreds of archived satellite images, storm animations, and special events.
Data includes 25 meteorological observations recorded for 6 & 3 hourly increments at 223 stations in the former Soviet Union.
Provides access to climatologies (temperatures, rain, & snow) for cities in the U.S. and its possessions.
WW2010 strives to integrate real time & archived data with instructional resources; includes multimedia instructional guides, archive of data & products from memorable weather events, real time weather data, & current weather products.
a National Climatic Data Center resource on US and global weather, offering most current, as well as historical data for 1998-2006 at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climateresearch.html
An introduction to cloud development & identification using text & images.
Provides explanations of & access to detailed images of some basic cloud forms.
Learn to read weather maps and make your own forecasts, find out about the earth's changing climate, or try the Weather Visualizer, which displays almost-real-time weather forecasts and images.
A collection of Web-based instructional modules that incorporate text, colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio & video to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences.
Shows how remote sensing is applied to studying the land, sea, & air making up the Earth's environments.
Offers basic information on types of weather information and how to access it. Produced by NOAA.
Glossary of climate terms, drawn from a number of sources, by the NWS Climate Prediction Center.
The second edition of this detailed listing offers definitions for terms used by storm spotters. (NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS SR145, by Michael Branick)
Almost 2000 entries cover all areas of weather. Weather extremes and records are also covered, as is biographical information.
Offers broad coverage of environmental issues. Sample topics include global change, tsunamis, the Hudson River and fossil fuels, along with brief biographies of environmentalists.
The United Nations Framework Commission on Climate Change has produced a glossary to help understand climage change acronyms frequently used.
A glossary of climate change terminology from the EPA's Global Warming Web site.
Brief listing of terms relating to tropical storms.
A cross referenced glossary of oceanography & related geoscience terminology.
Broad coverage of the science and technology of energy, in over 250 articles.
This dictionary offers definitions for all the sciences, including environmental topics. Approximately 7,000 topics are covered.
A dictionary of weather terms.
The Encyclopedia of Earth covers a wide range of earth science topics, from the earth, to its natural environments, to water profiles of selected countries. Well-written articles can be browsed alphabetically or by topic.
Search or browse over 7,000 print EPA documents. 24,000 titles are available free, in digital format.
Access the full text of atmospheric science books, starting with LC call number QC 800.
CIESIN is a distributed, electronic data and information system created to address the information needs of users concerned with understanding global environmental change and sustainable development issues. It includes the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) gateway to an easy-to-use interface for searching, viewing, browsing, or ordering data and information.
This site contains reports on key climate change topics related to methane and other greenhouse gases.
Contains information collected by the USIA on topics such as biodiversity, climate change, endangered species, & ozone depletion.
Find information pertaining to the science of global warming; current and projected impacts of global warming; international and U.S. Government policies and programs; opportunities for individuals and corporations to help stop global warming (and in many cases, save money, too!); & state and local actions that help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
A project of the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (CNIE), the library addresses the need for objective, scientifically sound information on environmental issues; it currently includes Congressional Research Service Reports & will eventually include An Encyclopedia of the Environment and In Depth Issues in the Environment.
Divided into 2 sections: The Story provides information on climate issues & the scientific study of climate variability and The Data offers a comprehensive look at the instrumental & paleoclimatic data that shows how the Earth's temperature has changed.
Introduction to the ozone hole, with broad ozone hole information, including the discovery, recent loss over Antarctica, and the science of the ozone hole. Produced by the Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Cambridge.
Offers current drought conditions, forecasts and archival data, pertaining to the U.S. Produced by 4 Federal agencies.
This page is produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It provides information on the science of global warming,as well information on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, U.S. Climate Policy, and Health and Environmental Effects.
Produced by the European Union, this web page covers studies on global warming, EU documents, information on international climate negotiations, and EU domestic actions.
RealClimate is a blog with contributions by scientists working in the field. It covers current information on climate, as well as material discussing treatment of climate information by the media.
Canada's Source for Meteorological Data
UK's biggest weather information provider; includes links to other weather sites.
Lists National Weather Services or National Hydrological Services for almost 187 member states and territories. (Select "WMO Members" from right side of page).
World's largest archive of climate data.
Offers current assessment and extended outlooks on precipitation, wind, wildfire conditions for the United States.
This list details U.S. and global storms & climate events most noted for their atmospheric marvel or impact on human life.
This web site from NCDC offers recent annual summaries for Atlantic hurricane seasons. Also, has information on selected named hurricanes, as well as maps of landfalling hurricanes back to 1899.
Provides information on Atlantic& Caribbean Hurricanes, as well as those in the Eastern Pacific. Provides links to worldwide tropical cyclone centers. General information on hurricanes, as well as historical information (includes the following:1492-1996 Atlantic Deadliest Hurricanes, 1900-2000 USA Deadliest Hurricanes, Most Expensive, Most Intense, US Strikes by Decade, US Strikes by State)
A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations .
Search the University at Albany's online catalog for electronic and print journals in atmospheric science.
Provides real time images of the Earth; images are available for five regions: North America; North and South America, Atlantic and East Pacific; Hawaii, Pacific Ocean and North America; Japan, Australia, West Pacific, and Asia; & a global geostationary satellite composite.
An electronic photo gallery of the atmosphere.
All Conferences is a directory that focuses on up-coming conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events, and meetings. It may be browsed by subject field or searched.
forecasting data from the University at Albany Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences; includes surface & upper air data, radar imagery, satelitte imagery, numerical forecast products, & textural forecast products.
Seeks to identify the nature & causes for climate variations on time scales ranging from a month to centuries.
Its mission is to maintain a continuous watch on short-term climate fluctuations & to diagnose & predict them; includes a section called Climate Spotlight which offers monthly & seasonal forecasts & updates.
Learn to read weather maps and make your own forecasts, find out about the earth's changing climate, or try the Weather Visualizer, which displays almost-real-time weather forecasts and images.
Graphical 5-day forecasts for major cities continually updated; Albany's forecast.
SPC monitors and forecasts severe and non-severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and other hazardous weather phenomena across the conterminous U.S.