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ATS Antarctic Treaty Secretariat
COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs
SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
GCMD
- NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD).
Cloud Types
- Common cloud classifications, University of Illinois, USA.
Atmospheric Optics
- Pictures and information on visual spectacles in the atmosphere: rainbows, halos, glories, coronas etc.
www.slf.ch
- Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. Web service providing information on snow and avalanches in German and English.
www.avalanche.org
- Web portal to the avalanche centers of North America.
www.fsavalanche.org
- Avalanche site maintained by the Forest Service, USA, that manages public lands in national forests and grasslands.
www.csac.org
- CyberSpace Avalanche Center. Service featuring worldwide avalanche information.
www.avalanche.net.nz
- Latest advisories and useful information on e.g. avalanche probability and snowpack stability in New Zealand.
Auroras Now!
- Web service which helps watching auroras in Finland. Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) maintains the service, which includes magnetic field alarm systems for Northern and Southern Finland separately and an auroral monitor for Northern Finland.
Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory
- Independent department of the University of Oulu performs continuous measurements of magnetic field, magnetic pulsations, cosmic radio noise, upper atmosphere radio soundings, ionospheric tomography, seismic recordings and cosmic rays.
www.spaceweather.com
- Real-time space weather reports and space news.
Aurorawatch
- Information about aurorae provided by Lancaster University, UK.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPPC
- A scientific intergovernmental body set up by the WMO and by the UN's Environment Programme (UNEP).
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/
- A hypertext history of how scientists came to understand what people are doing to cause climate change.
www.climateprediction.net
- An experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century by running climate models. Anyone can participate in this project by giving time on their computer - time when they have their computer switched on, but are not using it to full capacity.
www.realclimate.org
- A blog on climate science maintained by climate change specialists.
Educational Global Climate Modeling
- Download a research-quality global climate model and explore the subject of climate change using the same methods and tools that scientists employ.
NOAA Paleoclimatology
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) paleoclimatology site. Provides the paleoclimate data and information needed to understand and model inter-annual to centennial-scale environmental variability.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Surface Air Temperature Analysis.
NOAA Central Library
- E-journals, e-books and photo library.
The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator
- Over 1 000 selected links to oceanic and atmospheric science and policy sites organized by topic and alphabetically within topic.
EUMETNET
- The network of 24 European National Meteorological Services.
EUMETSAT
- European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.
ECMWF
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
Goddard Institute
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies. NASA, Columbia University, New York, USA.
NASA's link site
- NASA provides links to space and weather related sites.
WMO
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO), specialized agency of the United Nations.
Members of WMO
- List of National Meteorological or Hydrometeorological Services.
NSIDC
- National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, USA.
NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA.
iLEAPS the Integrated Land Ecosystem - Atmosphere Processes Study
- International project aiming to provide understanding how interacting physical, chemical and biological processes transport and transform energy and matter through the land-atmosphere interface.
Melbourne
Moscow
Washington
SatRep
- European satellite reports.
American Geophysical Union
- AGU is a worldwide scientific community that advances, through unselfish cooperation in research, the understanding of Earth and space for the benefit of humanity.
European Geosciences Union
The Geophysical Society of Finland
- The Geophysical Society advances geophysical research and serves as a link between those involved in it.
University of Helsinki/ Division of Atmospheric Sciences
- Division of Atmospheric Sciences is part of the Department of Physical Sciences. Teaching of meteorology is given there.
The Remote Sensing Club of Finland
- Unofficial association established to promote information exchange between Finnish organisations and persons with remote sensing and image processing interests. Contents mainly in Finnish.
American Meteorological Society
- History, publications and news in the field of atmospheric, oceanic and hydrologic sciences.
Online Meteorology Guide
- Collection of web-based instructional modules introduces fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences. Maintained by University of Illinois, USA.
Centre for Atmospheric Science
- A joint venture between the Departments of Chemistry, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
European Meteorological Society
- Information, news and discussions on themes and issues connected with meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, earth observation and the climate system.
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
- Information on associations, news, publications and events in the field.
Royal Meteorological Society
- Publications and events related to weather and climate research.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
- UCAR is a nonprofit consortium of North American member universities, each of which grants doctoral degrees in the atmospheric and related sciences. Site includes information about research and education and a list of their member organizations.
The Globe Program
- Worldwide education and science program for schools.
EurekAlert! by AAAS, Science society
- Science news around the world.
The Tornado Project
- Lists of recent and past tornadoes and information on tornado safety.
Storm Prediction Center
- NOAA's National Weather Service provides storm reports and warning maps as well as educational data about tornadoes.
Gaisma
- Site provides sunrise, sunset, dusk and dawn times for thousands of locations all over the world.
www.worldtime.org/
- Service featuring an interactive world atlas and information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times in several hundred cities worldwide.
U.S. Naval Observatory
- Sun and Moon rise and set times.
Intersun - The Global UV project
- World Health Organization's UV information package. Site contains also links and information about UV Index.
Radiación Ultravioleta
- Spanish site providing UV indexes in over 50 cities in Spain.
www.infosoleil.com
- French UV-site, updated only in summer season.
Weather Channel UV Index
- UV index in USA. Current index and 1-day forecast.
Australian Forecasts For Sun Safety
- UV index forecasts for Australia, sun safety information and link to SunSmart-sites.
UVNET Greece
- UV radiation measurements and forecasts in Greece.
www.worldweather.org
- WMO's service featuring official weather observations, weather forecasts and climatological information for selected cities supplied by National Meteorological & Hydrological Services (NMHSs) worldwide.
CNN
- CNN weather forecasts and reports.
USA Today
- USA Today Weather.
Weather Channel
- The Weather Channel's web site.
Hydrological forecasts Finland's environmental administration
The Baltic Sea level and wave height Baltic Sea Portal
Pollen report University of Turku, Aerobiology Unit
VisitFinland.com
www.finland.com
virtual.finland.fi
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