Useful Websites

http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php

http://weather.unisys.com/

http://atm.ucdavis.edu/~grotjahn/course/atm111/

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov

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

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

http://www.meted.ucar.edu/resource_modlist.php

http://weather.noaa.gov/fax

http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/radar/realtime/guide.html

http://lidar.ssec.wisc.edu/index.htm

http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/od/lidar/report_fsl_ncar012502.html

http://www.intellicast.com/Global/Satellite/Infrared.aspx?animate=true&enlarge=true

DATA

METAR

How to decode METAR codes?

http://weather.cod.edu/notes/metar.html

What is METAR?

http://metar.noaa.gov/

Check surface stations

http://weather.gov/om/osd/portal.shtml

METAR DEcorder

http://heras-gilsanz.com/manuel/

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sacramento/html/wrknca.html

How to read or plot a station model?
http://weather.cod.edu/notes/stnmodel.html

METAR Observations

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Missoula/metarobs.html

RAOBs http://www.raob.com/

Radar http://www.roc.noaa.gov/

Satellite

TERRA Latin for land

Launched on Dec 18, 1999

http://terra.nasa.gov/

AQUA Latin for water

Launched on May 4, 2002

http://aqua.nasa.gov/

http://aqua.gsfc.nasa.gov/

QuikSCAT Sea surface wind

Launched on June 19, 1999

http://manati.wwb.noaa.gov/quikscat/

http://manati.wwb.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/qscat_day-1.pl

http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/index.cfm

GOES http://www.goes.noaa.gov/

Others http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/sst/ (Sea Surface Temperature)

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Missoula/nwsomso.satobs.htm

BUOY

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/buoys.html

http://www.scubanaked.com/weather.html

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/tn404/text/tn404_7.html

Lidar http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/sparcle/sparcle_tutorial.html

http://www.lidar.com/

ACARS Data

ACARS stands for the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System. These data are routed by several cooperating airlines to FSL.

For each observation:

¡P latitude and longitude (degrees)

¡P pressure altitude (meters MSL)

¡P time of observation

¡P temperature (Kelvin)

¡P wind direction (degrees)

¡P wind speed (meter/sec)

¡P heading (degrees)

¡P mach number

¡P water vapor mixing ratio

¡P relative humidity

¡P dew point (Kelvin)

¡P eddy dissipation rate (m^(2/3) s^-1)

¡P peak vertical acceleration (meters/sec/sec)

¡P peak vertical gust (meters/sec)

¡P quality control and error indicators

http://www.arm.gov/docs/xds/static/acars.html

http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/

http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/demo/

http://www.bom.gov.au/inside/oeb/networks/amdar.shtml