Distinguished Mullers in Aviation --My family claim to aviation credibility...
NWS Home Page/Current Watches, Warnings, Statements and Advisories
NWS Melbourne, Florida --Current local wx, graphical forecasts, climate data, local applied research.
Current
Wx Radar--NWS NEXRAD Network
Current
GOES Wx Satellite Imagery--NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Current
North American Surface Analyses Page
NWS Unified Surface Analysis
--covers the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; click to zoom in.
Forecast
Model Output Page--National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
Weather Underground
Tropical Page
Sea Surface Temperature and Heat Content
NWS Aviation Weather Center (AWC)
ADDS (Aviation Digital
Data Service)
A
Simulation of 183 GHz Satellite Water Vapor Images of Tropopause
Folding
During Rapid Cyclogenesis
--1.5 mb PDF file of a paper submitted to Monthly Weather Review,
December
2002.
National Weather Service (NWS) Sites:
NWS Home Page/Current Watches,
Warnings, Statements and Advisories -- Links to wx info and
NWS
offices around the country.
Clickable
Map of NWS Offices in U.S. --Find your local Weather Service
office.
NWS
National Interactve Graphical Forecast Products
NWS Aviation Weather Center
AWC Aviation Digital
Data Service
NWS National Hurricane Center
--Hurricane track forecasts, public advisories, discussions, and
climatological
info.
NWS Storm Prediction Center
--Severe wx forecasts, assessment products, discussions,
data--everything
you need for the chase!
Current
North American Surface Analyses Page --NWS Hydrometeorological
Prediction
Center
NWS Fax Maps
-- Current NWS wx maps.
Sfc & Upper Air
Maps from Storm Prediction Center click on "Upper Air Maps" then
scroll
down for archive back to 1998!
Satellite links:
NOAA Current GOES -- GOES and
international geostationary imagery.
NASA/MSFC Current GOES
-- GOES-East with looping and high resolution (1 km) Vis.
SSEC
Geostationary
Satellite Images --GOES and international satellites from Univ.
Wisc.
Space Science Engineering Center.
Naval
Research
Lab (NRL) Current Imagery -- GOES and MeteoSat--includes wx map
overlay
capability.
NWS Western
Region Headquarters Current Imagery -- GOES-West with high
resolution
Vis.
CIRA
RAMMS Advanced Met. Sat. Demo & Interp. System -- Colorado
State University
NCAR Research
Applications Program (RAP) Current Imagery -- GOES-East with
aviation
wx products and looping.
Satellite
Image/Wx
Map Composites--San Francisco State Univ. Meteorology
South America GOES
Images--Servicio
Meteorológico Nacional, Argentina
European
Meteosat Imagery
Images from the EUMETSAT--European Organization for the Exploitation
of
Meteorlogical Satellites
GOES
Imager Tutorial --Description and fantastic examples of GOES imager
products.
GOES Gallery (Univ.
Wisc) -- Phenomenal GOES images and loops of severe wx, gravity
waves
etc.!!
NASA Goddard
GOES Imagery --More interesting GOES imagery.
Image
Enhancement Tutorial
GOES Operational Info
and Status --NOAA Office of Satellite Operations
J-Track3D
--NASA's interactive satellite visualization site.
Polar
Orbiting Weather Satellite Imagery
MODIS Rapid
Repsonse
System -- Provides high resolution polar-orbiting geographical
imagery
for fire and other applications.
GOES
Satellite-Derived Sounding Page
Forecast Model Output:
Penn State Dept.
of Meteorology--Experimental Tropical Cyclone Model Fcst Page
Unisys Wx Page -- NWS and
European Center forecast model output.
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere
Studies (Univ. Maryland) -- NWS global model output--click on
"Weather Forecasts" then on a region of the world.
NCAR Research
Applications Program (RAP) Model Page -- defaults to the RUC (Rapid
Update Cycle) designed for short term aviation forecasting.
NCAR--RAP
Eta Model Page -- The Eta forecast model output page of the NCAR
Research
Applications Program.
NCAR--RAP
GFS Model Page -- The GFS forecast model output page of the NCAR
Research
Applications Program.
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab (FSL)
RUC (Rapid Update Cycle) Model -- 0 to 12 hr short term high
resolution
aviation wx forecasts for N. America.
NOAA
Model Output Statistics (MOS) Page --useful for creating point
forecast
for individual locations.
Interactive
Model Soundings --NOAA Forecast Systems Lab Interactive Skew-T of
Model
Soundings
San
Francisco Bay Area Wind Flow -- Animation of modeled current wind
flow
over my home town!
Weather Radar:
U.S. Radar
Reflectivity Summary--National Weather Service Click on any U.S.
location. Links to "RIDGE" radar.
U.S.
Radar Reflectivity Summary Lite--National Weather Service Click on
any
U.S. location.
U.S.
Doppler
Radar (NEXRAD) Locations--National Weather Service --Click on any
U.S.
Doppler location.
Florida
Base Reflectivity--National Weather Service
--Looping capability, composite reflectivity, base and storm-relative
velocity.
NWS
U.S./Alaska/Hawaii/Guam/Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands
Reflectivity Mosaics--Image
or loops
Doppler
Weather RADAR Tutorial--Basics of weather radar
by the NWS "Jetstream" Online School for Weather.
Wx Observations and Tools for Interpreting Them
Surface
Observations
(Univ. Wyoming)
Upper Air
Soundings (Univ. Wyoming)
Upper
Air Soundings (College of Dupage)
TAF (Terminal
Aerodrome Forecast--National Weather Service) --type in a station
identifier.
Surface Wx/Station
ID Plots --regional plots of current sfc. obs. that includes the
three
letter station identifiers.
Station Identifier
Lookup -- type in a station identifier to find out station info.
Station
Identifier Codes --sfc, upper air, Nexrad etc.
Key
to the METAR
TAF
Decoder
Sample
Station Plot and Explanation of Symbols
Present
Weather Symbols
Present
Weather Symbols with Coded METAR Designations
Surface
Analysis Chart Explanation (Chapt. 5 of AC 00-45E) --note: you must
have a pdf file reader like Adobe Acrobat to view this page.
Surface
Fronts--Symbols and Codes
Weather
Depiction Chart Explanation (Chapt. 6 of AC 00-45E --note: you must
have a pdf file reader like Adobe Acrobat to view this page.
Upper Air
Constant Pressure Maps Explanation (Chapt. 8 of AC 00-45E) --note:
you must have a pdf file reader like Adobe Acrobat to view this page.
Upper
Air Codes--Explanation --by Dr. Paul Ruscher, Dept. of Meteorology,
Florida State University
National Data Buoy Center
--Oceanic surface observations from NOAA.
International
Weather Reports --from the National Weather Service.
Aviation Wx:
Aviation
Weather (AC 00-6A) --FAA/NWS publication for pilots and flight
operations
personnel. Free! (Note: it's faster to walk over to the bookstore!)
Aviation Weather
Services (AC 00-45E) --Explains how to read the numerous U.S. Govt.
aviation wx charts. Free!
Aviation Weather Center
--access to numerous NWS aviation wx products.
Aviation Digital Data Service--access
to numerous NWS aviation wx products.
Dispatcher's
Weather Briefing" -- Dispatcher-oriented assemblage of
aviation
wx links.
Airport Delay
Status
Tropical/Hurricane
National Hurricane
Center/Tropical
Prediction Center
Univ.
Wisc.--Madison Tropical Cyclone Page
Weather
Underground Tropical Page --Click on "Computer Models" for forecast
tracks.
Sea
Surface Temperature and Heat Content --Atlantic Oceanographic and
Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Sea Surface
Temperature (SST) --National Hurricane Center
Regional/Global
SST --Rutgers University
Quickscat
Storm Page --Polar orbiting satellite-derived winds in storm areas.
Quickscat
Current Data Page --Polar orbiting satellite-derived winds.
El Nino/La Nina
Center for Ocean-Atmosphere
Prediction Studies (COAPS--Florida State Univ.)
El
Nino Theme Page -- NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Lab (PMEL)
Global/Climate
EPA's Stratospheric Ozone
Depletion Page
NOAA Climate
Prediction
Center -- Hurricane outlooks, seasonal forecasts, ozone depletion
and
more.
National
Climatic Data Center Global Warming Page
Ocean Wave Height Forecasts
U.S.
Navy
Wave Height Forecasts
NOAA
Wavewatch--Pick a region of the world: up to 180 hour forecasts and
animations.