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Meteorology Directory |
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| Hurricane Hunters, The - Information about the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, responsible for collecting data from the centre of every hurricane and many other severe storms affecting North America. Includes educational material, personal accounts, history, details of the planes, and some videos. |
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| Hurricanes - Official site for provision of information about hurricanes affecting North America. Numerous links to forecasts, warnings, safety and preparation guides, and general information about hurricanes. |
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| Hurricanes - Well organised treatment of the causes, development and devastating results of hurricanes, including descriptions of major storms. Part of larger Forces of Nature section of ThinkQuest encyclopedia compiled by students for students. |
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| Jetstream - An Online Weather School - Educational resource from the US National Weather Service. Covers many general and specific topics within climate and weather, and contains comprehensive glossary. |
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| National Center for Atmospheric Research, The, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and the Office of Programs - Research and educational gateway page to research on weather and climate prediction and forecasting, climate change, pollution and air chemistry, severe storms, sun and space weather, impacts of weather and climate on society, plus descriptions of tools used in the studies. |
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| National Severe Storms Laboratory - Centre for research and development into ways of understanding and predicting severe storms and accompanying lightning, hail, tornadoes and other destructive winds. Large collection of educational and archival material. |
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| NOAA - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration features weather news, information and forecasts including storm, fire and hurricane watches; satellite images; research projects and data; oceanic, coastal and fisheries products and data; maps and charts; and educational and media resources. |
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| Tornado FAQ - Roger Edwards of the Storm Prediction Center answers questions about tornado basics, forecasting, climatology, damage, safety, research, spotting and chasing, and historical tornados. |
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| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Atmospheric Sciences - Gateway page to a major resource for meteorological information and research. Includes the Weather World 2010 Project, convective modelling, climate research, severe and hazardous weather, The Environmental Council, and numerous articles on weather and climate. |
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| Weather Doctor, The - Huge resource of well written articles on numerous aspects of weather and climate, compiled by a professional meteorologist. |
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| Welcome to the Met Office - Gateway page for the UK Meteorological office, responsible for British weather forecasts and warnings, records, research and climate studies. Includes links to educational pages, archives and historical data. |
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| Cloud Atlas - Penn State University offers this list of cloud classifications by genera, species, varieties, and supplementary features. Illustrated with photos by Berhard Muehr. |
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| Cloud Glossary - Learn the terminology used to identify different types of clouds. From Texas A&M University. |
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| Comparative Retrospective on the Perfect Storm - Walter Drag of the National Weather Service provides this reference on the "powerful, extensive, long lasting, westward translating, mid-latitude northern hemispheric extra-tropical ocean storm." |
