- 1996 DAAC Yearbook: Tracking Monsoons
Learn how monsoon circulation works and why monsoons are important climatological phenomena.
http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Atmospheric Circulation
http://ess.geology.ufl.edu/ess/Notes/AtmosphericCirculation/atmosphere.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Canadian Chinook Wind
Explanation and photos.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~doerksen/chinook.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Clear Air Turbulence
Article about new clues to understanding clear air turbulence.
http://www.aerotechnews.com/starc/2000/091900/CAT.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Current Jet Stream
Intellicast weather site gives you a current image of the jet stream location everyday. It is interesting to watch it change location, which gives you an idea of why your weather that day is the way it is.
http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/JetStream/
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Dust Devils
Good pictures of dust devils. Details explanation of why they occur using diagrams.
http://members.attcanada.ca/~stefanac/weather/dustdevils.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Earth's Atmosphere
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/space/atmosphere.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Force of Winds
Explains gradient, pressure, and Coriolis force in an abbreviated format with diagrams.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/fw/home.rxml
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Forces and Origins of Wind
Text and graphic explanation with words to click for definitions.
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/7n.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Geostrophic Wind
Short article and diagram of winds.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/fw/geos.rxml
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Global Circulation
http://www.windsorct.org/sagelmc/Grade%208%20Explorers/global_circulation.htm
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Global Scale Circulation
Simple explanation with good graphics. Also has highlighted words to click on for definitions.
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/7p.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Gradient Wind
Good article with diagrams on gradient wind and how it behaves.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/fw/grad.rxml
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Jet Stream
Fundamentals of the jet stream explained with text and diagrams. Glossary is also available.
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/7q.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Lake Effect Snow
Article with graphics that can be enlarged showing you how and why it forms.
http://tgsv5.nws.noaa.gov/er/buf/lakeffect/lakeintro.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Mesoscale Circulations
Explains with text and graphics: land and sea breezes, mountain and valley winds.
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/7o.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Santa Ana Wind
Article about this hot dry wind and its causes.
http://nimbo.wrh.noaa.gov/Sandiego/snawind.html
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- Scales of Motion
http://http://163.13.134.120/metweb/session5.html
(Added: Fri Apr 18 2003)
- Subsidence Inversions
Anomalous vertical temperature structures of the atmosphere.
http://www.maybeck.com/inversions/index.shtml
(Added: Sun Feb 16 2003)
- The Balancing Act of Geostrophic Adjustment
The maintenance of real and model weather systems and the model's response to new data can be anticipated and understood with the help of geostrophic adjustment theory, which describes how a fluid responds to a perturbation imposed upon it.
http://meted.ucar.edu/nwp/pcu1/d_adjust/
(Added: Sun Sep 19 2004)
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