It Was A Dark & Stormy Night...
The SchulMart weather and atmosphere channel!
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General Weather Stuff
A handy relative humidity and dew point calculator is [here]
Understanding how weather forecasts are made (includes lots of explanations of stuff)
Weather Map Stuff!
An interactive weather map... good practice! Click [here].
Weather symbols practice game (requires java enabled)
Atmosphere Stuff
NASA's layers of atmosphere diagram
Layers of atmosphere explained
Layers of atmosphere explained differently
National Weather Service explains air pressure
Explaining high and low air pressure
Bernoulli principle - what makes tornadoes spinny
Coriolis Effect
A handy explanation of the Coriolis effect
NOAA's simple Coriolis effect diagram
Carbon, Water, Nitrogen Cycles (games and simulators may require you to enable flash)
Happy Little Clouds!
Cloud types diagram 2 (includes weather prediction based upon cloud types)
Hurricanes & Tropical Storms
NASA explains what hurricanes are
Hurricane puzzle (requires java enabled)
Carbon Dioxide & Climate Change
A useful link for climate change may be: http://climatechange.procon.org/
Need information about the history of carbon dixoide in the atmosphere? Try these:
* The Mauna Loa curve (atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements since 1958) - click [here]
* Vostok ice cores (carbon dioxide and temperature data from ice cores for the past 460,000 years) - click [here].
* Temperature changes over the past 1,000 years - click [here]
