 AUSTRALIAN SKY & WEATHER REFERENCE SITES |
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| REFERENCE SITES | ||
| Cloud Atlases / Photography Sites | ||
| Houze's Cloud Atlas | Courtesy of Candace Gudmundson | |
| Clouds from Space | Images from NASA courtesy of Calvin J Hamilton | |
| ASW Weather Photography | Michael Bath & Jimmy Deguara's site with thousands of brilliant pics catalogued for easy reference | |
| Australian Weather Photos | Michael Thompson's weather photo catalogue | |
| South Australian Images | Peter Dobre's landscape (including clouds) website | |
| Wildscape Australia | Peter Jarver | |
| Conversion Tools | ||
| Wind Chill Calculator | courtesy of Big Ben's Victoria | |
| Calculators On Line | Every calculator you can think of from the Martindale's Reference Desk | |
| Sun Angle Calculator | Provides all sort of interesting information about the sun in any location at any time you provide the information for | |
| Time | Conversion table from GMT/UTC/Z to AEST & AEDST | |
| The World Clock | Tell the time around the globe (includes daylight savings periods too) | |
| Great Circle Calculator | Calculate the distance between 2 points using latitude & longitude. | |
| The Weather Calculator | Handy temperature, pressure, moisture & windspeed conversions | |
| A Guide to the Lifted Index | by Ben Quinn & Anthony Cornelius (ASWA - Queensland) | |
| Surface METAR Obs Users Manual | For a detailed understanding of aviation forecasts | |
| METR 151 Class Page | Good basic meteorology tutorials | |
| Storm Spotters Reference Tools | ||
| Observation Techniques | Excellent introduction to observation by Jimmy Deguara (ASWA - NSW) | |
| Australian Storm Spotters Guide | Australian Bureau of Meteorology | |
| Severe Storms in NSW & the ACT | Australian Bureau of Meteorology | |
| Thunderstorm Features | Courtesy Syndey Stormchasers - a pictorial guide to thunderstorms | |
| Severe Storms - Facts, Warnings & Protection | Australian Bureau of Meteorology | |
| Severe Weather Watcher Handbook | Environment Canada | |
| Storm Spotters' Field Guide | Training for storm spotters by NOAA | |
| Storm Spotters Guide | NWS - Norman, Oklahoma | |
| Storm Spotters Glossary | NWS - Norman, Oklahoma | |
| Severe Local Thunderstorms in Australia | Paul Graham (ASWA - NSW) | |
| Chase Safety | Chuck Doswell's article on chasing with safety & courtesy | |
| Forecasting Rules | L Caltman (?) - but a good summary of ideas | |
| StormTrack's list of stormchasers | The original!!! | |
| Storm Chasers on the Web | Large list of chasers world wide | |
| Education | ||
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Thunderstorm Forecasting | Courtesy Anthony Cornelius |
| Meteorology Education & Training | Courtesy NOAA - self paced learning modules | |
| Project Atmosphere Australia Online | Sel Kerans award winning website - weather activities for schools | |
| Interpreting Weather Satellite Images | Online exercises from San Franciso Sate University | |
| The Atmospheric System (Weather & Climate) | A series of lectures - Dr D Harrison | |
| The Atmospheric System (contd) | The second series of lectures - Dr D Harrison | |
| Clouds | An explanation of cloud formation from NASA | |
| WW2010 | Educational site extraordinaire | |
| NEMAS Education | Great site - electronic book on weather observation techniques, guide to lifted index, skew-t, 500hPa maps | |
| Index to Training Manuals and Essays on Storm Chasing & Meteorology | Sam Barricklow's brilliant links page | |
| The Semi-Official Microburst Handbook Homepage | Fernando Caracena incudes paper by Chuck Doswell | |
| Interpreting Weather Satellite Images | An online exercise courtesy San Francisco State Uni | |
| Aerographers' basic training series | Convergence, divergence, vorticity, forecasting upper & surface systems, weather elements, severe weather & sea surface forecasting | |
| Aerographers intermediate training series | Fundamentals of meteorology, atmospheric physics, atmospheric circulation, air masses & fronts, surface & upper charts & analyses, tropical meteorology, satellite image analysis. | |
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Manual of Synoptic Satellite Meteorology | Zamg |
| Storm Track's Educational Resources | Many worthwhile educational resources from the ground up!! | |
| Online Meteorology Courses | Courtesy Paul Sirvatka and the College of DuPage | |
| USA Today - Weather | The 'How's & Why's section has some useful info about the mechanics of weather | |
| Birdcast | Site demonstrating the use of radar in tracking migration | |
| The Radar Etymology Website | A site using radar to track insect movements | |
| JUST FOR FUN | ||
| Make your own cumulus | Adjust the temperature and dew point & see the effect on the cloud!! | |
| Make your own cumulonimbus! | Adjust the Skew T & see the what makes a cu turn into a cb!! | |
| Lifted Parcel Profile | Use the mouse to drag the temperatures and dewpoints to new values & new stability values will be computed. | |
| Balance of forces on the wind | Illustrates the balance the frictional, pressure gradient, and Coriolis forces | |
| GREAT LINKS SITES | ||
| Marine Waypoints site | Marinewaypoints.com links to all sorts of things | |
| World Wide Weather Links | WMO member country met organisations | |
| Meteorological Information Source | All sorts of interesting info, from storm chasing to upper air explanations | |
| Royal Scottish Geographical Society | Links page! | |
| Excellent Weather Sites | Lots of wx links from AirCal - part of the Aero webring | |
| Weather Information Superhighway | USA's NWS list including international Weather Services | |
| Markus Mentele's Links site | German site with many European links to current info | |
| Worldwide Weather Links | Carl Smith's fantastic list of weather links | |
| TV Weather.com | USA Weather & TV supersite | |
| Live Weather Images | Current weather Images (USA, Europe), Seismic Activity, Radar, Aviation forecasts | |
| SEARCH ENGINES | ||
| AltaVista Text Seach | Words but very little advertising for a change | |
| Northern Light | Rather useful search engine | |
| Highway 61 | Uses more than one search engine to do the work for you | |
| AltaVista Translations | Translates from some European languages to English & vice versa | |
| ASTRONOMICAL LINKS | ||
| The Nine Planets | A multimedia tour of the solar system | |
| Andrew Wall's Space Links page | Links page run by ASWA's Andrew Wall (SA) | |
| VK3NDS' Astronomy Links | Links to archives, catalogues, history, photography, skymaps etc | |
| Martian Cloud Images | Images courtesy of Calvin J Hamilton | |
| GEOMORPHOLOGY / GEOPHYSICS | ||
| Recent World Earthquakes | Courtesy National Earthquake Information Centre (Denver) | |
| Recent Earthquakes | Courteay GeoScience Australia | |
| Geomorphology from Space | A Global Overview of Landforms | |
| Geomorphology | An Introduction from Encarta | |
| The Virtual Geomorphology | A Virtual Textbook in English as well as Polish | |
| Web Resources for Geomorphologists | Miami University's links page | |
| BUSHWALKING / OUTDOORS | ||
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Northeast Victoria Bushwalking page | Courtesy Trevor Brown |
| FLIGHT / WINDSURFING / GLIDING | ||
| Aviation Meteorology | Aviation meteorology for Australia | |
| Bathurst Soaring Club | Bathurst, NSW | |
| Landings | Great aviation jump off site!! | |
| Weather information for Gliding, Birdwatching & General Purposes | Jack Harrison - especially info for thermal & wave soaring | |
| Aerology | Thoughts on air currents from a Greek paragliding site | |
| Windsurfing.org | Great windsurfing site - flight on the water!! | |
| South Australian Surf Forecasting | Ben Matson | |
| EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS | ||
| Australian Sky and Weather | Kestrel hand held weather meters, Davis weather stations | |
| Sphere Technologies | For weather monitoring equipment, GPS & compasses etc | |