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Subject: MetLink Contact Message No.4
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:28:29 -0000
Dear MetLink participants
Those of you who have access to the World Wide Web may be wondering
where you can find meteorological information on the Web. This
message is meant to help you find it, but please note that I can do
no more in a message like this than draw to your attention Web sites
that I have found useful. There's a huge amount of meteorological
information and data on the Web.
Please remember two things about the following Web addresses:
1... They may be case-sensitive, so if I have used capital letters,
so should you.
2... You may be able to launch the Web links simply by
double-clicking on them in this message.
Notice also that some Web addresses use _ (underscore) and others use
- (hyphen).
FIRST, SOME 'TOP-LEVEL SITES' (starting points) which provide
links to a wide range of information, including weather charts,
satellite images, data and meteorological organizations:
>> Roger Brugge's home page
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/
>> Steve Dorling's weather page
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e870/weather.html
>> WeatherNet
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
>> Yahoo: Meteorology
http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Meteorology/
NOW FOR SATELLITE IMAGES:
>> From the University of Nottingham, UK, you can obtain
visible, infra-red and water-vapour images
(a) from the geostationary satellite Meteosat, which is 36,000 km
above the equator at longitude 0 deg and
(b) from the geostationary satellites which are located 36,000 km
above the equator over South America and 140 deg E. You can obtain
images of conditions over Europe, Africa, the South Atlantic, and
other parts of the world. Simply click on the screen to choose the
area that interests you. To obtain the images, see
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczsteve/updates.shtml
For an introduction to Meteosat and explanations of the various types
of image available from the Nottingham site, see
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/meteosat/
>> From the University of Dundee, UK, you can obtain visible
and infra-red satellite images of Scandinavia, the British Isles and
the rest of western Europe as far south as the Mediterranean. These
are obtained from polar- orbiting satellites.
Start from
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/
and, when connected, click on "Register for free images". Then,
follow the instructions to gain free access to images of superb
quality. You need to choose a password when registering and remember
it, as you need it when gaining access to the images, which are
on
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/abin/browseleaf/
>> For access to weather maps, as well as still and animated
satellite images, upper-air analyses, precipitation maps, temperature
maps, etc., from all over Europe, visit
http://typhoon.rdg.ac.uk/Data/Global/europe.html
>> For movies of images from Meteosat and polar-orbiting
satellites over Europe, see
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/movie.html
FOR RECENT WEATHER DATA, much of it only an hour or two
old:
> One starting point is
http://www.wunderground.com/
When connected, you simply click on "Europe", "Africa", etc. and
follow the links. The address for Europe is
http://www.wunderground.com/global/EU_ST_Index.html
and, when connected, you choose a country from the list below the
map.
Thus, for Malta, you get connected to
http://www.wunderground.com/global/ML.html
The address for Africa is
http://www.wunderground.com/global/AF_ST_Index.html
and from there you can obtain weather data for Madagascar from
http://www.wunderground.com/global/MG.html
>> Another starting point for data from weather stations around
the world is
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/stations.html
> For a picture showing plotted weather observations at many
places in the British Isles, visit
http://www-imk.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~gmueller/pics/Rgbsyn.gif
and for the same thing for Spain, visit
http://www-imk.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~gmueller/pics/Rspansyn.gif
For a long list of charts, including these two, visit
http://www-imk.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/Access/analog3.0/gwzday.html
> To obtain interactive hourly data for the past 24 hours from
buoys on the North Sea and eastern North Atlantic, the address is
http://www.nws.fsu.edu/buoy/uk.html
Students may wonder how these data have been obtained, as the buoys
are remote from land. The answer is that the buoys are interrogated
when satellites pass over them. Ocean buoys carrying automatic
weather stations are deployed in many parts of the world. See
http://www.nws.fsu.edu/buoy/
BRITISH METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE WEATHER MAPS OF NORTH- WEST EUROPE
AND THE NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC UPDATED EVERY SIX HOURS (analyses and
24-hour forecasts) can be obtained from
http://www-imk.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~gmueller/pics/bracka.gif
and
http://www-imk.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~gmueller/pics/brack0.gif
the former being analyses, the latter 24-hour forecasts. Please note
that the 0 of brack0.gif is a zero. >
> For the most recent observations from many places in the British
Isles and hourly data for the past 24 hours, see
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/GB_cc.html
See also
http://www.weather.org.uk
AN EASY WAY TO FIND THE WEB PAGES OF NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL
SERVICES IS TO VISIT THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION.
The address is http://www.wmo.ch/
and then you click on "International Weather" to obtain a list of
countries.
Two countries which are of interest to MetLinkInternational are
Zambia and Zimbabwe. To visit their meteorological services, contact,
respectively
http://www.zamnet.zm/zamnet/zmd/zmd.htm
http://weather.utande.co.zw/
See, particularly, the weather services for agriculture in these
countries.
The address of the British Meteorological Office's home page is
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/
From there, you can follow the links to find weather forecasts,
information about the latest weather, shipping bulletins, links to
other weather sites on the Web and information about Meteorological
Office research and operations.
There is information about Tristan da Cunha on the Web and it can be
found by searching for 'Tristan da Cunha' using a Search Engine. One
Web address to visit is
http://www.wndrland.demon.co.uk/tristan_da_cunha/tristan_history.html
FOR EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL, visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
http://www.sky.co.uk/weather/index.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm
http://www.weatherpost.com/
http://www.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/people/kerans/
http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu/curriculum/
http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/radgeog/index.html
http://www.ksw.org.uk/atmosphere/pages/atmosphere.html
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/
Good hunting, and don't forget there are Web links from the home page
of MetLinkInternational. The address is
http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/radgeog/MetNetEur/MetNetEur.html
If you would like to share with MetLink participants Web addresses
(URLs) that do not appear in the list above, do not hesitate to send
a message to everyone in the project.