The following web sites have been compiled by the NOAA Central Library staff. Note: These links lead to resources
not on the NOAA Library website.
- American Meteorological Society home page
- Ask-A-Meteorologist (National Weather Service Eastern Region:
Baltimore/Washington)
- Ask-A-Meteorologist (National Weather Service Southern Region:
Albuquerque, New Mexico)
- Ask-A-Meteorologist (National Weather Service Southern
Region: Shreveport, Louisiana)
- Ask-A-Meteorologist (National Weather Service Western
Region: Flagstaff, Arizona)
- Ask the Experts: Your weather questions answered -
submit a weather question, view answers to FAQs, view the questions and answers archive (USA Today)
- Atlantic Coast Observer Network MD/DE/DC Chapter - local
climatological data back to 1992
- Atlantic Coast Observer Network VA/NC/SC Chapter - local climatological
data reports
- Aviation Weather Center (National Weather Service)
- Aviation Weather Center Acronym Glossary (National Weather
Service)
- Career Guide for the Atmospheric Sciences (American
Meteorological Society)
- Careers in Meteorology (National Severe Storms Laboratory)
- Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies - current weather, climate, and forecasts (Institute of Global Environment & Society)
- Climate Change (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
- Climate Change: A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming
(National Climatic Data Center)
- Climate Change and Its Potential
Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Frequency: A Bibliography of Scholarly Research (NOAA Miami Regional Library,
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory)
- Climate Data Online System - U.S. divisional
and global climatological data (National
Climatic Data Center)
- Climate Maps of the United States database - use
Internet Explorer to access maps for climatic elements including precipitation, temperature, wind, sky cover/visibility,
heating/cooling degree days, sea level pressure, freeze/frost. The period of record of the data for most of the maps is
1961-1990. (National Climatic Data Center)
- Climate Prediction Center (National Weather Service)
- Climate Program Office - created in October 2005 and integrates the Office
of Global Programs, the Arctic Research Office, and the Climate Observations and Services Program (Office of Oceanic
& Atmospheric Research)
-
Climates of the States
publication (National Climatic Data Center)
- Climates of the World publication
(National Climatic Data Center)
- Cloud chart - sky watcher chart and introduction to clouds
(NOAA/NASA)
- CNN weather page (Cable News Network)
- Comparative Climatic
Data - observed data and climatological normals for the U.S. (National Climatic Data Center)
- Cooperative Observer Program (National Weather Service)
- Daily Weather Maps (United States) from 2003 - present.
Prepared by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center. See "Historical Daily
Weather Maps" to access maps from 1871 - 2002 (National Weather Service)
- Drought Information Center (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
- Drought - National Integrated Drought Information System (NOAA,
USGS, USDA, etc.)
- El Nino Theme Page (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory,
NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
- Emergency preparedness brochures (National Weather Service)
- Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin (Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere
Studies)
- Extreme weather and climate events - billion
$$ weather disasters, heavy precipitation, temperature extremes & drought, Storm Events Database, El Nino/La Nina, U.S.
hurricanes, etc. (National Climatic Data Center)
- Fire Weather (National Weather Service)
- Floods - NOAAWatch Floods Theme Page (National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration)
- Forecast terminology (National Weather Service La Crosse, WI Forecast Office)
-
Freeze/frost probability tables for the U.S. (National Climatic Data Center)
- Global climate change (National Climatic Data Center)
- Global measured extremes of temperature and precipitation
(National Climatic Data Center)
- Global Warming FAQ (National Climatic Data Center)
- Glossary of Meteorology from the American Meteorological Society
- GOES: Geostationary Satellite Server - real time (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service)
- Heat Index Chart (National Weather Service)
- Heating and cooling degree data for the U.S. (National
Climatic Data Center)
- Historical Daily Weather Maps (United
States). Access individual daily maps from 1871 - 1968, and also daily maps (in weekly format) from 1968 - 2002.
See link to download the DjVu Browser Plug-in required to view these maps.
(NOAA Central Library's Daily Weather Maps Project). See "Daily Weather Maps" to access maps 2003 - present.
- Historical foreign climate data - NOAA Central Library
Climate Data Imaging Project
- Historical Significant Events Imagery -
Global satellite imagery of significant weather and environmental events for past 30 years (NOAA's National Climatic Data Center)
- Hurricane and natural disaster brochures
(Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
- Hurricane FAQ (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological
Laboratory, NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
- Hydrologic Information Center (National Weather Service)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (World Meteorological Organization, United
Nations Environment Programme)
- JetStream - An Online School For Weather (National Weather
Service's Southern Region Headquarters)
- La Nina Theme Page (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
- Lightning Safety (National Weather Service)
- Local Weather Data - click city on U.S. map (National Weather Service)
- Marine weather forecasts (National Weather Service)
- Mariners Weather Log publication - contains articles, news and information about
marine weather events and phenomena, storms at sea, weather forecasting, the National Weather Service Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS
) Program, Port Meteorological Officers (PMOs), cooperating ships officers, and their vessels. (National Data Buoy Center, National
Weather Service)
- Monthly Weather Review publication -
access to Volumes 1 (1873) - present (NOAA Central Library's Monthly Weather Review Archives Project)
- The National Center for Atmospheric Research - operated by
the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
- National Centers for Environmental Prediction (National Weather Service)
- National Climatic Data Center - world’s largest active archive of weather
data (National Environmental, Satellite, Data and Information Service)
- National Climatic Data Center Bibliography (National
Environmental, Satellite, Data and Information Service)
- National Climatic Data Center Certified Data - online ordering
(National Environmental, Satellite, Data and Information Service)
- National Hurricane Center/Tropical Prediction Center (National Weather Service)
- National Ice Center - a multi-agency operational center operated by the
U.S. Navy, NOAA, and the U.S. Coast Guard
- National Severe Storms Laboratory (NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
- National Snow and Ice Data Center - NSIDC is part of the University of Colorado
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and is affiliated with NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center
through a cooperative agreement
- National Weather Service (contact page)
- National Weather Service (home page)
- National Weather Service FAQ site (Public Affairs Office)
- National Weather Service Forecast Office sites -
recent (NOW Data) and historical climatic data, local forecasts, etc.
- National Weather Service Glossary
- National Weather Service Interactive Weather Information Network
(IWIN) - U.S. forecasts, warnings, and advisories
- National Weather Service Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services -
oversees delivery of hydrometeorological and climate services and the design and implementation of future products and services
- National Weather Service Official Weather Forecast - weather conditions
for past 24 hours, forecasts, watches, and warnings for U.S. and also international weather conditions for past 24 hours
- National Weather Service Public Affairs Office
- Natural hazard statistics (National Weather Service)
- Natural hazards data (National Geophysical Data Center)
- NBC4 Weather Plus Washington, DC - national weather,
forecasts, and pollen reports (enter zip codes)
- NEXRAD National Mosaic Reflectivity Images -
U.S. radar imagery (National Climatic Data Center)
- NOAA Climate Theme Page (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
- NOAA Weather Radio (National Weather Service)
- NOAA Weather Theme Page (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
- NOAAWatch: NOAA's All Hazard Monitor (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
- Online Meteorology Guide (University of Illinois)
- Operational Significant Event Imagery - detailed imagery of significant global
environmental events (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
- Ozone - Stratospheric Ozone (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
- Ozone and Meteorological Conditions in the
Polar Stratosphere (National Weather Service)
- Polar Orbiting Satellites - POES: Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (National
Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
- Post Storm Data Acquisition - for extreme weather events
(National Weather Service)
- Precipitation frequency information and publications -
Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center (National Weather Service)
- Probable maximum precipitation information and publications -
Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center (National Weather Service)
- Radar imagery (National Climatic Data Center)
- Regional Climate Centers - High Plains, Northeast,
Midwestern, Southeast, Southern, and Western (Northeast Regional Climate Center)
- Regional (U.S.) climate
maps (National Weather Service)
- Relative humidity and dew point tables (National Weather Service)
- River Forecast Centers - Alaska-Pacific, Arkansas-Red Basin,
California-Nevada, Colorado Basin, Lower Mississippi, Middle Atlantic, Missouri Basin, North Central, Northeast, Northwest, Ohio,
Southeast, and West Gulf (National Weather Service)
- Service assessments - of catastrophic weather events (National Weather
Service)
- Severe weather safety (National Weather Service)
- Space Weather - Space Weather Prediction Center (National Weather Service)
- State Climate Offices (American Association of State Climatologists)
- Storm Events Database -
details of U.S. storms by county within state (National Climatic Data Center)
- Storm Prediction Center (National Weather Service)
- StormReady (National Weather Service)
- Sunrise/sunset computations (one
day) - for U.S. and worldwide locations (U.S. Naval Observatory)
- Sunrise/sunset
computations (one year) - for U.S. and worldwide locations (U.S. Naval Observatory
- 3-D Weather Images - the latest 3-D weather images from the NOAA Environmental
Visualization Laboratory
- Tornado FAQ (Storm Prediction Center)
- Tornadoes (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
- Tsunami Warning Center - Pacific (National Weather Service)
- Tsunami Warning Center - West Coast and Alaska (National Weather Service)
- U.S. Army Signal Corps Annual
Reports - The Signal Corps carried out the work of meteorological observations in the U.S. during the years 1861-1891.
In 1891 the meteorological work was transferred to the newly-formed U.S. Weather Bureau in the Dept. of Agriculture. (NOAA
Central Library)
- U.S. Climate at a Glance (National Climatic Data
Center)
- U.S. Climate Normals - 1971-2000 product
suite (National Climatic Data Center)
- USA Today Weather page - obtain U.S. and international forecasts,
submit weather questions to experts, etc.
- Ultraviolet Index Bulletin (operationally updated)
(Climate Prediction Center, National Weather Service/EPA)
- Ultraviolet Index Forecast
(Climate Prediction Center, National Weather Service)
- Washington Post's Weather Page - weather for Washington, DC,
as well as international forecasts
- The Weather Channel - look up the weather for every U.S. zip code and also for
thousands of international cities
- Weather instrument shelter - suggested
dimensions/specifications (National Weather Service)
- Weather map symbols - see links at the
bottom of the page (National Weather Service)
- Weather-related degree programs (National Severe Storms
Laboratory)
- Weather satellites - real time (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service)
- The Weather Underground - global weather data
- Weatherwise - The Magazine About the Weather
- Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (January 1971 -
present) - report is jointly published by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, the National Agricultural
Statistics Service, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board
- Wind data for the U.S. - the period of this
summary is 1930-1996, but the period of record varies for individual sites (National Climatic Data Center)
- Windchill (National Weather Service)
- World Climate Research Programme of the World Meteorolgical Organization
- World Data Center for Climate (maintained by Model & Data (M&D),
which is hosted at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, in cooperation with the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ))
- World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder (operated under a cooperative
agreement between the University of Colorado, CIRES, and NOAA and collocated with the National Snow and Ice Data Center)
- World Data Center for Glaciology, Cambridge (maintained by the Royal Society
and the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)
- World Data Center for Glaciology and Geocryology, Lanzhou
(maintained by the Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- World Data Center for Glaciology and Geocryology, Lanzhou (English version)
- World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville
(maintained by NOAA, collocated with and operated by the National Climatic Data Center)
- World Data Center for Meteorology, Beijing (maintained by the National
Meteorological Center of the China Meteorological Administration, collocated with the Climatic Data and Application Office)
- World Data Center for Meteorology, Beijing (English version)
- World Data Center for Meteorology, Obninsk (maintained by the Federal Service of Russia
for Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Environment)
- World Data Center for Meteorology, Obninsk (English version)
- World Data Center for Paleoclimatology (operated by the National
Climatic Data Center, collocated with the National Geophysical Data Center)
- World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (World Meteorological Organization c/o
Japan Meteorological Agency)
- World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations - link
to member sites, WMO publications, etc.
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