Hello all and Happy New Year. As many of you know 2013 has been an exceptionally dry year for California the driest on record so far. In the process of looking deeper into the reasons behind this I've added a few more links to my Weather and Climate Resources page (link below).
This is one of the resource pages I am slowly adding to. If anyone has additional suggestions, I'd be happy to take a look. http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/links-to-interesting-blogs/weather-and-climate-resources/ For those who would rather have the relevant links in the body of the email, I've provided them as well. aWhere http://www.awhere.com/en-us/weather-p An excellent new weather tool that interpolates weather data down to 9×9 km blocks. The data is downloadable and the interface is smooth and pleasant. As of this entry, the data is only available for portions of Africa and for India. Climate at a Glance, NOAA http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/ Allows you to generate temperature, precipitation, heating, cooling, drought, etc charts for global, US, state, and sub-state geographic areas. Climate Change eXplorer http://oe.cd/ccexplorer An online climate change visualization tool that allows you to track a number of variables and statistics over time. Good graphical presentation and options for saving your data. Educational Global Climate Modelling http://edgcm.columbia.edu/ Free (older) software packages that allow you to run your own global climate models. Fetch Climate http://fetchclimate.cloudapp.net/ Mean values of various climate perameters for select regions of the globe Global Windmap http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/winkel3 Realtime wind patterns for the globe. National Atlas (USA) http://www.nationalatlas.gov Various US national statistics, including a good selection of climate data National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/ Extremely complete collection of snow and ice info, maps, historical weather data, and GIS data from a wide variety of sources Real Climate http://www.realclimate.org/ “Climate science from climate scientists” – an array of climate articles written by climate scientists. The “start here” page has an excellent selection of links for people with a wide range of familiarity with climate science. United States Drought Monitor http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/RegionalDroughtMonitor.aspx Maps showing current drought severity across the US Weather Spark http://weatherspark.com/ Really great current, historical, and predicted weather information in a beautiful and intuitive presentation. Wind Map http://hint.fm/wind/ Extremely cool art project showing wind movement across the US WorldClim http://www.worldclim.org/ Global climate data including predictions (GIS layers) Neahga Leonard *There is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe to explore, perhaps more than one.* http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/
