LINKS FOR SPECIFIC CONTINENTS

ANTARCTICA

From Susan Taunton:

“The Antarctic Connection” http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/weather/climate.shtml  Lots of interesting info about the climate and other details about Antarctica, including suggestions for fun things to do, like throwing a pot of boiling water into the -60 degree Fahrenheit air to watch its instant vaporization.  Definitions of optical phenomena like sun dogs and Fohn bank.  And if the weirdness of the South Pole isn’t enough, links to All Things Arctic!

AFRICA

from Lauren Malone: 

Africa’s Weather: A Geographic Introduction  http://www.marekinc.com/GeoOverviewWxIntro.html  A great website that includes many of the atmospheric processes we have discussed in class, in addition to its specific application to the African continent.

Forecast Weather for Africa  http://www.meto.govt.uk/weather/africa/africaforecast.html  On this website you can find out about climate conditions in the past, present, and predicted future.  It also has great satellite images that provide us with information about temperature and cloud coverage.

Global Eye  http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_summer/eyeon/land.html  Has a basic focus on South Africa’s land and climate.

World Book  http://www2.worldbook.com/educators/around_climate_africa.asp  Allows you to search through continents and major cities in order to research and compare all aspects of weather related patterns.

ASIA

From Brian McGuire:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/asia.html This particular website breaks down Asia into its four regions and shows their respected regional climate maps for the weekly, monthly, and quarter yearly periods.  The climographs focus on the total precipitation, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, temperature anomaly, and the percent of normal precipitation.  I felt that these maps were easy to read and will be very beneficial in our group presentation.

 http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blrasia.html This website broke down the countries in Asia individually and showed different reasons as to why the climate patterns change from one country to another.  The site also gave geographical insight as to how the Himalayas, amongst other features effect the seasonal climate changes in other particular regions.

 http://www.maptown.com/southeastasiamaps.html This site focuses mainly on Southeast Asia with emphasis on Brunei Darussalam, Burma, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.  This site allows you to visualize different Digital Maps, World Aviation Maps, Nautical Charts, as well as being able to create your own Color Plotting and Climate maps for any of the 12 countries.  It also explains using different methods of the GPS system what exactly make these countries so hot.

From Jeannette Dooley:

http://app10.internet.gov.sg/scripts/nea/cms/htdocs/article.asp?pid=1098 Climate of Asia Cities

http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/cleanair/caiasia/topics/climate_ch.htm Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities

EUROPE

From Jonathan Reese:

www.standards.dfes.gov-    This website will be useful in understanding Europe’s climate and what affects it.  This website also has information on what Europe is like and how many satellites are in Europe to show images of weather.

  www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/GIS/clim_eur.htm  -   This website gives information on  annual precipitation in Europe.  It also shows monthly mean temperature and  monthly mean wind pressures.  This is a great site for the project.

 www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/earth/pace/    - This web site monitors the impact of global climate change on permafrost geothermal regimes in the mountains of Europe.  Also shows topography of various land masses in Europe.

 www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/uk.html  -  This website gives information on past annual rainfall, satellite imagery, and mean temperatures of various main cities in Europe.  This site will be very helpful in the continent project. 

www.asg.physik.uni-erlangen.de/europa/klima/klimae.htm  -  This websites shoes climatic diagrams for all of Europe.  It also shows Meteosat images and images from outer space.  Has updated Marine temperatures of Europe.  Also, excellent up-to-date scientific weather maps of Europe.  

NORTH AMERICA

From Nick Kamataris:

Northeast U.S. Climate-www.erh.noaa.gov/box/dailystns.shtml This is a site that covers climate regions throughout the Northeast United States, and should be helpful to those covering that area in their reports.

  Western U.S. Climate Historical Summaries-www.wrcc.dri.edu/climsum.html  This site is a historical site covering climate patterns that have left a mark in history throughout much of the western region.

From Jason Schuminksi:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/usa.html  North American weather site

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa/gov/oa/climate/climatedata.html North American weather site

From Tae Woong Kim:

Western Regional Climate Center http://wrcc.dri.edu/ The mission of the Western Regional Climate Center is to disseminate high quality climate data and information pertaining to the western United States. The Western Regional Climate Center, inaugurated in 1986, is on of six regional climate center in the United States, which is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It provides climate issues affecting the West like Impacts of climate variability in the Western United States, Quality control of western databases, Relation of ENSO to western climate, Climate trends and fluctuations in the West, and GIS and remote sensing. Ex: 3-month standardized precipitation index (US Continental)

From Susan Taunton:

CLIMAS (Climate Assessment for the U.S. Southwest) http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/climas/ Provides multiple tools, background and links for the study and analysis of climate in the U.S. Southwest. 

 NDMC, The National Drought Mitigation Center http://www.drought.unl.edu/whatis/what.htm Provides background explaining drought, drought indices, ENSO, etc., to aid local and regional planning for drought.

OCEANIA

From Becky Garoutte:

http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/country.php3?r=OCE&refer=  Weather forecast for numerous Oceania areas.Weather base records and averages.  Includes average, low, and high temperatures, average precipitation, and recorded highs and lows over a specified time period.  For example, one chart I looked at covered a 53 year period for Canberra, Australia.

 Weather base records and averages.  Includes average, low, and high temperatures, average precipitation, and recorded highs and lows over a specified time period.  For example, one chart I looked at covered a 53 year period for Canberra, Australia.

 From Nick Kamaratis:

 Australia’s Climate (Full Year of 2002)- www.ea.gov.au/minister/ps/2002   This site has the entire climate history of the past year of 2002 for the continent of Australia, so it looks to be very helpful for my group.

 Australia-Eye of the Storm Links-www.abc.net.au/storm/links/html.    This site has links to recent and past storms that have hit the Australia area, and has reasons for why the storms were there, and what caused them to be brief or for them to last a while.

 Climate Averages of Australia-www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages  This site has lots of information upon the climate types, and cause of these types throughout the Australia region.

From Jason Schuminski:

http://www.politicalresources.net/oceania.htm Information site for Oceania

 http://www.worldrevolution.org/Region/asp?RegionName=Oceania Information site for Oceania