GGR 461 WEB RESOURCES – 2008

Sites of general interest:

Academic sites:

University of Illinois

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wx/home.rxml

Ohio State University

http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/

San Francisco State University, California Regional Weather Server

http://virga.sfsu.edu/

Portland State University, Including the “Make Your Own” product menu

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/

WeatherNet at University of Michigan

http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/

University of Utah

http://www.met.utah.edu/wx/

Western Regional Climate Center at University of Nevada, Reno

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/

University of Wyoming

http://weather.uwyo.edu/

National Center for Atmospheric Research

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/

College of DuPage, Illinois

http://weather.cod.edu/

Florida State University/CUDOS North American Comprehensive Rawindsonde Observations

http://www.met.fsu.edu/CUDOS/rawin.html

University of Wisconsin Space Science & Engineering (great wx satellite products)

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/

Other Organization Sites:

Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

http://wxmaps.org/

Storm Chaser

http://www.stormchase.us/

Federal Government Sites:

National Weather Service Offices by clickable map and by list. This is a very comprehensive access to NWS functions including the Severe Storms Lab (NSSL), Climate Prediction Center (CPC), National Hurricane Center (NHC) etc.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrh/nwspage.php

Several of the sites accessible from the above master page are of special interest:

The basic National Weather Service homepage has several interesting map products available

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

The Hydrometerological Prediction Center (HPC) has similar products

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

IWIN Interactive Weather Information Network (state by state products) (broadband connection needed)

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov

If you are interested in models check out the Environmental Modeling Center (EMC)

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is of special interest especially in the late summer and early fall

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml

The National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL) and the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) are of special interest in the spring and summer during tornado season

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/

NOAA Storm Prediction Center

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/obswx/maps/

National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (great for snowcover)

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/

For longer term climate predictions check out the Climate Prediction Center (CPC)

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

Air Resources Laboratory

http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready.html

Weekly collection of weather maps in PDF format

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/pdffiles.html

National Weather Service Office for Flagstaff

http://nimbo.wrh.noaa.gov/flagstaff/

Arizona Specific Sites:

Arizona State Weather Roundup (Hourly Conditions)

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/getproduct.pl?FLGPHXSWRAZ

Flagstaff National Weather Service Office

http://nimbo.wrh.noaa.gov/flagstaff/

Arizona SNOTEL Summary

ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/update/az.txt

Office of the State Climatologist (at ASU)

http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Edellis/azsc.html

Arizona Monsoon Sites

http://geography.asu.edu/aztc/monsoon.html

http://geography.asu.edu/aztc/swamp.html

NAU real-time weather station

http://www.cens.nau.edu/~nauws

Commercial Sites:

The Weather Channel

http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc

Accuweather

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/index.asp?partner=accuweather

Unisys (formerly the Purdue University WXP site)

http://weather.unisys.com/

Intellicast

http://www.intellicast.com/

Weather Tutorials:

Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment

http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/enter.html

WW2010 at University of Illinois

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/home.rxml

Prentice Hall website to accompany our textbook

http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/aguado3/

Jeff Haby’s weather forecasting site (great!)

http://www.theweatherprediction.com/

Use and Interpretation of Upper Air Maps from Texas A&M

http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/ATMO203/tut/upairgen/mapsmain.html

Weather Equipment:

http://www.weatherconnect.com

http://www.davisnet.com/home_flash.asp

http://www.weatheraffects.com/

http://www.windandweather.com/

Specific Products Used in this Course:

NCAR RAP real time weather

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/

Basic US Surface map:

http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_map.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_sfc_map.html

Surface Map Animated Loop:

http://weather.unisys.com/images/sat_sfc_map_loop.html

Upper Air Balloon Soundings (Stuve or SkewT plots):

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/make.html

http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/index.html

http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

http://www.met.fsu.edu/CUDOS/rawin.html

Upper Air Maps:

http://vortex.plymouth.edu/make.html

http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/

http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/index.html

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/uamap.html

Jet Stream Maps:

http://www.weatherimages.org/data/imag192.html

http://www.nckcn.com/homepage/mhennes/Jetstream.htm

http://virga.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_init_00.gif

A collection of upper air sites from Storm Chaser (including divergence)

http://www.stormchase.us/Upper.html

Eastern Pacific divergence

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/eastpac/winds/wg9dvg.html

Satellite Image Products (stills):

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_west.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_east.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_west.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_us.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_us.html

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/

Satellite Image Products (loops):

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_west_loop-12.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_east_loop-12.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_west_loop-12.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_us_loop-12.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_us_loop-12.html

Current Flagstaff Forecast Discussion:

http://nimbo.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/gprod.php?pil=afd&sid=fgz&wfo=fgz

Current Radar:

NOAA: Flagstaff

http://radar.wrh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.kfsx.shtml

Intellicast: U.S.

http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=usa&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=RadarImagery&product=Radar&prodnav=none

Intellicast: Flagstaff

http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx?loc=kfsx&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=RadarImagery&product=BaseReflectivity&prodnav=none

Unisys: U.S.

http://weather.unisys.com/radar/rad_us.html

Weather Underground:

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/map.asp

Forecast Models:

National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) the place where it’s all done

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/

lists the status for current NCEP model runs:

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/prodstat_new/

Air Resources Laboratory, well presented graphics for Eta, NGM, RUC and GFS model maps

http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html

NCAR model results, also well presented graphics:

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/model/

Unisys model results:

http://weather.unisys.com/eta/index.html

http://weather.unisys.com/ngm/index.html

http://weather.unisys.com/aviation/index.html

http://weather.unisys.com/ecmwf/index.html

http://weather.unisys.com/mrf/index.html

US Navy NOGAPS spectral model results

Note: you may need to copy and paste this next link directly into your browser:

https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WXMAP/index.html

European center for medium range wx forecasts

http://www.ecmwf.int

College of DuPage, Illinois

http://weather.cod.edu/forecast

http://weather.cod.edu/forecast/loop.ngmpcp.html

Ohio State model results

http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/

University of Utah model results

http://www.met.utah.edu/wx

http://www.met.utah.edu/jimsteen/gfs/framesGFS.html

University of Wyoming model results

http://weather.uwyo.edu/models/fcst/index.html

Colorado State University RAMS experimental model

http://rams.atmos.colostate.edu/realtime/

Forecast balloon sounding plots from the Eta-NAM model

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/soundings.nam/snding.html

Forecast meteograms derived from the Eta-NAM Model

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/nammeteograms/meteo_smw.html