Web Resources

Professional organisations:

• World Meteorological Organisation

• International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)

• American Meteorological Society

• American Geophysical Union

• Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

• Royal Meteorological Society

• NSF - Atmospheric Sciences

• CFCAS

Data Assimilation

• Understanding Data Assimilation: How Models Create Their Initial Conditions (MetEd module)

• WMO Global Observing System

• ECMWF / DA research | Monitoring

• UK Met Office

• NCEP EMC | Monitoring: conventional upper-air , surface, satellite

• NASA GMAO

• NCAR DART

• UFS - Data assimilation Working Group

• NOAA/NASA/US Navy/US Air Force Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

• Univ. or Reading DARC

• RIKEN DA

• Weather & Chaos project (U. Maryland)

• CIRA data assimilation

• Alfred Wegener Data Assimilation Group

• NERSC data assimilation

• Reanalyses

  • Reanalyses.org

  • ECMWF ERA5 | CERA-SAT | ERA-20C | CERA-20C | ORA-20C (ocean) | ORAS4 & ORAS5 (ocean) | ORAP5.0 (ocean)

  • NOAA 20CR | CFSR

  • NASA MERRA2

  • JRA-55

  • COSMO Regional Reanalysis

  • GFDL ECDA (ocean)

  • SODA (ocean)

  • GECCO2 | GECCO3 (ocean)

  • Create-IP datasets

• Paleoclimate

  • Last Millennium Reanalysis

  • PAGES DAPS | DAPS Nexus

  • PHYDA

  • Ensemble Kalman Fitting Paleo-Reanalysis

Numerical Weather Prediction

• ECMWF :

  • IFS documentation

  • NWP research

  • Publications

    • Newsletters

    • Tech. memoranda

    • NWP Lecture Notes

  • Workshops | Seminars

• UK Met Office :

  • Modelling systems

  • Scientists

• NCEP EMC |CFS| GEFS | GFS | RAP + HRRR

• US Navy | FNMOC | NRL : NAVGEM & COAMPS

• UCAR/NCAR :

  • Weather & Research Forecasting (WRF) model

  • Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS)

• U. of Oklahoma ARPS

• Env. Canada (CMC) :

  • Global Environmental Multiscale model (GEM)

  • Seminars

• Météo-France/CNRM | GMME | GMAP | GMEI

  • Modèles: ARPEGE | ALADIN | AROME

  • Météo-France/Laboratoire d'Aérologie Méso-NH

• HIRLAM

• Consortium for Small Scale modeling (COSMO)

• U. of Hamburg METRAS

• Australian Community Climate Earth System Simulator (ACCESS)

• Japan Meteorological Agency NWP

• WMO World Weather Research Program (WWRP)

Earth System Models and Prediction

• NCAR CESM

  • Last Millennium Ensemble (LME)

  • Large Ensemble project (LENS)

  • Decadal Prediction Large Ensemble (DPLE)

• NASA GFDL CM3 | CM4 | ESM4

• NASA GISS E2

• MetOffice HadCM3

  • DePreSys

• Max-Planck-Institut MPI-ESM | ICON-ESM

  • Grand Ensemble

• IPSL CM5 | CM6

• CNRM/CERFACS CM5

• CCCMA CanESM2 | CanRCM4 + OURANOS consortium

• CMIP6

• CMIP5

• Obs4MIPS

Fog & low clouds

Field experiments: C-FOG | SOFOG3D | LANFEX | MATHERHORN FOG-X | ParisFog | FRAM

Instrumented sites: SIRTA | Ruisdael Observatory - Cabauw | Cardington | Chilbolton | Lindenberg

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program | CLOUD-NET

ARM - Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign

Coastal fog systems (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies)

The Pacific Coastal Fog Project (USGS)

The Summen Project

Namib Fog Life Cycle Analysis

Atmosphere special issue: Observation, simulation and predictability of fog | Ceiling & Visibility articles

Global surface-based cloud climatology (including fog)

FogQuest

8th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, 2019, Taiwan

7th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, 2016, Poland

6th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, 2013, Japan

5th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, 2010, Germany

COST-722 Short Range Forecasting Methods of Fog, Visibility and Low Clouds

Aviation weather

NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center | METAR | TAFs

FAA Air Traffic order 7900.5D (Surface Weather Observing)

NOAA Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1, Surface Weather Observations and Reports

NWS ASOS program

Data resources

Weather

• NOAA/ESRL soundings | RAOBS | from various models

• NOAA/NCEI | Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive | Integrated Surface Database

• NOAA/ESRL MADIS

• NOAA/ARL READY (HYSPLIT dispersion and transport model)

• NOAA GOES satellite data | NESDIS GOES image viewer | NESDIS Imagery & Data

• NRL/JPSS Next-Generation Weather Satellite server

• NASA Earth Data

• U. Wisconsin-Madison SSEC data server

• ESA Earth Online

• EUMETSAT satellite data

• KNMI scatterometer ocean wind data

• NASA/JPL ocean winds datasets

• Reynolds SST analysis (NHC)

• NOAA/NCEP OI SST analysis

• Rutgers U. COOL ocean products

• National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (snow)

• NRL aerosol data

Climate

• NASA GISS datasets

Atmosphere

• HadCRUT | HadSLP2

• NASA/GISS GISTEMP

• Berkeley Earth temperature analysis

• NOAAGlobalTemp

• GPCC

• CRU precip.

Ocean

• NOAA World Ocean Atlas | WOA2018 | WOA2013 | WOA2009 | WOA2005 | WOA2001 | WOA1998

• NOAA ERSST

• Hadley Centre HadSST | EN4

• COBE SST | from ESRL

• IAP/CAS ocean temperature & salinity datasets

Paleoclimate

• NOAA NCEI paleoclimatology

• PANGAEA

• PAGES working groups data

• LinkedEarth

• SISALv2

• Google Earth Engine data catalogue

Educational resources

• UCAR-COMET

• ECMWF educational material | NWP Lecture Notes | eLearning

• EUMETRAIN

• "Bad Meteorology" (Penn State U.)

• WeatherWise (U. Wisconsin)

• Weather World 2010 project (U. of Illinois at U-C)

• SOS Math

• World of Mathematics (Wolfram)

• StatPrimer

• NIST - Engineering statistics handbook

• Dictionary of Units of Measurement

• Guide to F77

• Fortran 90

• Python
  

Other resources

• Mie online (interactive scattering calculations)

• Times of sunrise and sunset (interactive)

• Units Converter (interactive)

• Conversions (all kinds)

• Molecular weights (interactive)

• Lat.-Lon. to distance calculator

• Date-Julian Date converter

• Map of time zones

• Merriam-Webster OnLine

• Oxford English Dictionary

• UsingEnglish

• Synonym/Antonym

• Online translation

• Lexilogos - Cartes - Dictionnaires - Noms de famille

People (friends...colleagues...interesting people doing interesting things...)

• Greg Hakim (U. of Washington) - Data assimilation

• Eric Steig (U. of Washington) - Glaciology, climate dynamics

• Thierry Bergot (Météo-France/CNRM) - Fog modeling & data assimilation

• Gert-Jan Steeneveld (Wageningen U.) - Mesoscale modeling & fog

• Jonathan Izett (UC Santa Cruz) - Fog & coastal oceanography

• Joan Cuxart (U. de les Illes Baleares) - Boundary layer & turbulence

• Larry Mahrt (Oregon State U.) - Boundary layer & mesoscale motions

• Steve Penny (NOAA/PSL) - Coupled data assimilation

• Sergey Frolov (NOAA/PSL) - Coupled data assimilation

• Francisco Doblas Reyes (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) - Seasonal-to-decadal predictions

• Ad Stoffelen (KNMI) - Satellite wind observations

• Hugues Goosse (Université catholique de Louvain) - Paleoclimate & data assimilation

• Jörg Franke (U. Bern) - Paleoclimate & data assimilation

• Anne de Vernal (UQÀM) - Paleoclimatology

• Luke Parsons (Duke University) - Paleoclimate & climate dynamics

• Sara Sanchez (U. of Colorado) - Corals and climate dynamics

• Sylvia Dee (Rice U.) - Paleoclimate data assimilation

• Thomas Hopson (NCAR) - Ensemble forecasting & hydrology

• Clara Draper (NOAA/PSL) - Land data assimilation

• Kremena Darmenova (Elder Research) - Data science

• ...

Life & Culture (things outside of work...)

• Radio-Canada | NPR | BBC World News | Le Monde | Le Monde Diplomatique

• Eclectic music from radioparadise.com | KEXP Seattle

• toutMontréal -> English - Français

• Montreal.com

• VOIR (journal culturel hebdomadaire-Montréal)

• Théâtre Outremont

• Mairie de Toulouse - Culture |Cinéma Utopia| ABC Cinéma | Le Cratère | La Cinémathèque

• Stade Toulousain - rugby

• Cartes de France - Régions - Départements

• CU International Film Series

• Boulder Theater

• Boulder Public Library

• Boulder Bookstore

• City of Boulder (openspace info.)

• Flightview