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CONTINENT WEBPAGE STUDENT PROJECTS FROM 2003 CLASS

THE CLASS CONTINENT WEBPAGES ARE COMPLETED!

North America Webpage

Europe Webpage

Africa Webpage

Asia Webpage

NOTE:  Dr H has reconstructed your webpages as best I could, based on the materials provided.  In some cases I have re-arranged or combined information and in some cases images had to be re-captured or produced in a different form because they would not copy into the webpages.  Some climographs would not copy directly into the webpages  -- so I have had to leave them in the MS Word documents instead of linking them to actual map locations.

SOUTH AMERICA DRAFT EXAMPLE  (only a draft, not finished)

 

 

 

    PROJECT OVERVIEW & GENERAL DIRECTIONS 

Schedule of Deliverables with Due Dates

Continent Group Assignments

MAPS 

Trewartha Map of  World Climates  (from The Earth's Problem Climates, 2nd Edition, G. T. Trewartha, 1981)

Trewartha Maps for each continent  

Koeppen Map of World Climates with Climographs (from Man's Domain, A Thematic Atlas of the World, 2nd Edition)

Additional Useful Maps

Webpages from Spring 2001 Semester

USEFUL LINKS 

World Climate Site:  
http://www.worldclimate.com/

USA Today's World Weather Almanac
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/climate/worldcli.htm

Climographs of Selected US Cities
http://www.drought.unl.edu/whatis/climographs.htm

WMO (World Meteorological Organization) World Weather Information Service
http://www.wmo.ch/index-en.html

Weather Data Online
http://climate.usu.edu/free/default2.htm

Global Measured Extremes of Temperature & Precipitation (find records of extremes on your continent):  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/globalextremes.html

Dartmouth Flood Observatory  Dartmouth Flood Observatory Webpage

Links Contributed by the Spring 2003 Class:
If some (or all) of your links were for a specific continent, they are listed under:

LINKS FOR SPECIFIC CONTINENTS

From Aaron Berg:

http://www.worldclimate.com/   This site shows Average Maximum and Minimum temperatures along with average precipitation values for specific locations throughout the world.  The site would be useful because the data on this site could be used to construct climographs for different cities.

http://www.weather.com/     This site contains satellite imagery, current conditions observed around the world, and has records of normal and extremes for each day off the year for approximately 500 U.S. Cities.  The Weather Channel operates this web site and also includes 30 to 90 day long-term forecast predictions for the United States.  This site would be beneficial because based on the data on this site it would be possible to classify certain areas based on climate types.

 http://www.wunderground.com/      Known as Weather Underground, this site contains climographs of U.S. Cities as well as other cities all over the world.  This web site provides temperatures for cities around the world, which are updated on an hourly basis.  This site would be useful because the temperature and precipitation data would make it possible to create climographs for specific cities.

 http://www.nws.noaa.gov/        This site which is ran in conjunction with the National Weather Service is a pertinent source for obtaining information on the average and extreme events of temperature and precipitation for selected U.S. Cities.  This site contains historical climate data for many different cities that in some cases spans across ten-year time intervals.  The site is useful because it serves as a good barometer based on historical temperature and precipitation records of what type of climate a certain city could be classified as

http://www.accuweather.com/ This site contains average and record temperature and precipitation data for cities located around the globe.  The site forecasts expected temperature and weather conditions for cities that are on an hourly   basis.  The data obtained from this site would be useful in constructing climographs for various cities.

From Brenda Bonanno:

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/index.htm  This is the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology for Australia. It gives information about the climate of Australia, how it compares with other continents, publications, and other links.

 http://www.metoffice.com/research/hadleycentre/models/modeltypes.html This website uses Hadley climate models to predict future climate

 http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/index.html The National Weather Service’s Regional Climate maps. Pick a region from the map and viola, the climate information available for that area will come up…includes things like, precipitation and temperature averages as well as anomolies.

 http://www.geographynetwork.com/ If you know how to use GIS information and manipulate it, this is a great website. But, this is also a search engine and you can look for static maps as well. If you are able to use GIS, you can download data and manipulate it to make your own maps of climatic elements. This is off  of ESRI’s main website, so there is some free stuff….some not so free stuff.

  http://www.intellicast.com/ Check out intellicast’s site for current satellite information for precipitation, cloud coverage, water vapor, jet stream position, lightning, etc. (anything your heart desires). There is visible, radar, and IR coverage as well as historic data. Unfortunately, it’s mostly US information.

 http://home.eol.ca/~eddyjune/weather/weathertron/weathertron.html This site is a converter calculator. For instance, if you want to know the sun’s angle, enter in the lat/long for the area you are seeking information on, the day, and local time. It’s just a pretty handy tool.

 http://www.urbanclimate.org/welcome.html Wow! This site is packed full with information. There are a ton of links to various topics some of the links are the following: weather sites, tropical and marine weather, weather and imagery servers, urban climate sites, international meteorological sites, US climate centers, etc.

From Tom Damassa: 

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction  http://iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/ The IRI’s website. It has a number of links and useful images (especially for ENSO related teleconnections) with the latest data and forecasts.

http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/  The joint IRI/LDEO (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory) at Columbia climate data repository, with a number of climate related data sets (atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic, indices, etc.) for all over the world and multiple years. There is also a ‘Map Room’ with potentially useful images of world climate. This is an abundance of data, but unfortunately not the easiest to extract.

 http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/data/datasources.html A list of links to other climate data sources that I have not used but might be useful.

 Climate Variability and Predictability World Climate Research Program http://www.clivar.org A website of climate predictability, so most images and data are recent, but the site does contain information for all continents. It contains good summaries of continental climates with lists of useful links.

 World Temperatures Data Repository http://www.co2science.org/temperatures/temps.htm This site contains the ‘Global Historical Climatology Network’, ‘Jones et al.’, ‘MSU Satellite’, and ‘Upper-Air Radiosonde’ temperature datasets that cover areas around the globe. It looks as if you can use your preferred dataset to calculate temperature trends for any set of lat/long coordinates. I’ve never used this but it looks useful. Also has section for U.S. Climate Data by state.

 NASA GISS: Surface Temperature Analysis http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/ A NASA temperature data website with mostly images and maps of global patterns, but does have a location where you can retrieve information for annual mean temperature trends at particular stations (both in graphical and tabular form) that generally cover multiple decades.

 Geography World (Weather/Climate) http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/weather.html A site I stumbled upon with many links related to anything and everything weather and climate oriented (both scientific and other). I didn’t go through them all, but I’m sure there is something relevant here.

 Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) http://www.cred.be/ A Belgium University website with a useful(?) Natural Disaster database. Looks like it contains Excel as well as possibly GIS shape files for coverage of natural and technological disasters (they are in .zip format). Sidebar contains ‘Map Centre’ with maps of fatalities due to disasters by continent and ‘Summary Data’ for disasters by continent. Could be useful for teleconnections, flood, or general facts for each continent.

 http://www.clcaloha.org/empowerafrica/africa/climate.htm A quick summary of African climate and vegetation (probably are lots more websites like this one).

From Jeannette Dooley:

International Research Institute for Climate Change and Prediction: Linking science to society.   http://iri.columbia.edu/climate/forecast/cswasia/climate.html   This website contains information on the climate of Central and Southwest Asia paying special attention to the influences of land formations and topography. The website includes climographs, and temperature and precipitation monitoring. (Retrieved March 25, 2003 from the World Wide Web:)

Climate Change in Asia. : http://www.ccasia.teri.res.in/   This website is maintained by the New Delhi: Tata Energy Research Institute in conjunction with the United States Department of Energy. A general overview of Asian climate change is given discussing the evidence, impacts, and causes of Climate change. Information is looked at on a regional and individual country level. (Retrieved March 25, 2003 from the World Wide Web)

 Climate Action Network - South Asia (CANSA).  http://www.can-sa.net/  CANSA is a global network of nonprofit organizations which specialize in promoting education on climate change. The website looks at sea level rise, warming temperatures, deforestation etc. The website includes scientific journals and data. (Retrieved March 25, 2003 from the World Wide Web)

 South Asia Topography and Summer Monsoon. Hancock, Gregory.  from the World Wide Web:   http://www.wm.edu/CAS/GEOLOGY/geo304/Lect04/ This geology website contains useful slides and images illustrating the seasonal wind shift associated with the summer monsoon. The website pays special attention to orbital forcing and the influences of the ice ages. (Retrieved March 25, 2003) 

United States Global Change Research Program. http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/default.htm This site focuses on atmospheric composition, variability, land cover and change, El Nino, and different ecosystems. This site lists several other useful resources including UN World Climate Research Programme, U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability program (CLIVAR), and the UN World Climate Research Programme website.  ( Retrieved March 25, 2003 from the World Wide Web)

From Tobias Finke:

http://www.weather.com/common/home/climatology.html climographs and average values for many us-cities and important cities worldwide

 http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/monitoring_and_data/restworld.html climate maps, anomalies, precipitation, temperature, Africa-special

 http://vortex.plymouth.edu/  many satellite images, mainly for the U.S., some worldwide

 http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2001/perspectives.html review of the year 2001

 http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/ temperature-, pressure-, precipitation maps

From Becky Garoutte:

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/ NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory.  It includes Thunderstorm Climatology, where and when it will happen, total threat, animated loops, annual cycles at points on a clickable United States map, miscellaneous climatological information, and data processing.

 http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/ This website has four day forecasts for more than 1600 cities around the world plus extensive weather related new and maps.

 http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/FTP_SITE/inter_disc.html  This is the access point to the Goddard DAAC Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection (CIDC). Monthly mean data from the atmospheric, oceanic, and land use sciences have been placed on a common global map grid and made accessible by FTP. The Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection has been subdivided into seven categories based on data source as well as the parameters involved.
·         Atmospheric dynamics & atmospheric sounding products
·         Radiation and clouds
·         Biosphere data
·         Variable atmospheric constituents
·         Surface temperature and pressure|
·         Hydrology data
·         Remote sensing science

 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.

 http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/region.php3 This is the global weather forecast that has weather base records and averages.  Includes average, low, and high temperatures, average precipitation, and recorded highs and lows over a specified time period.

From Arlo Houston:

 http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html This site is the University of Texas at Austin's online library link to gif images of many type of the world.

 http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globe.shtml The Global Land One-km Base Elevation (GLOBE) Project site. Great site for DEM's and other images.

 http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/html/hurricanes/hurricanes.html Hurricane images from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

 http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/ghcc_data.html Water vapor images from the Global Hydrology and Climate Center, among other things.

 http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/satellite/ Infrared satellite imagery of the world.

 http://www.earthwatch.com/ weather updates and image archives of hurricanes and tropical storms

 http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/navdata/wea-glob.htm Navigation Information Connection site - interesting, shows various current GOES-10 images as well as other information.

From Nick Kamataris:

NCDC National Climate Data Center-www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ This site contains information about climate data from across the globe, raning in contents of every nation.  It would be very useful because it has many links that are quick, and full of information.

  World Climate-www.worldclimate.com      This site contains climate data for pretty much any region you can think of throughout the world.  It is a good source of information for many regions.

  Climate Data Archive-tao.atmos.washinton.edu/data_sets/   This site has information pertaining to many areas of the United States, and will be useful to those doing North America, as it is made from the University of Washington, and has tons of information upon that area.

  World Climate and Data Surveying Program-www.wmo.ch/web/wcp/wcdmp/html/wcdmp.html       This site is full of information about climates that have been surveyed in the past, and so it has information pertaining to what may be the area you are studying.

  NOAA National Weather Service-www.nws.noaa.gov/   This site is from the National Weather Service group, and it has many links to areas they find interesting and important to the climates of many regions throughout the world.

  Weather Channel-www.weather.com     This is the actual site of the weather channel that we see on TV all the time.  It has links that will take you back to the weather of almost any date that they have on file, and that will help you look at past weather systems passing through various regions.

NOAA Homepage-Climate-www.noaa.gov/climate.html   This is the home page of the NOAA and has links to every page that has something with their information in it, plus has a search directory, so that you can easily get to a site that has what you are looking for.

From Tae Woong Kim:

Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)  http://grads.iges.org/   COLA is dedicated to understanding climate fluctuations on seasonal, interannual, and decadal scales with special emphasis on the interactions between Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land surface. Their research results are published in referred journals and conference proceedings. COLA has converted all its web-based products to use AVN (Global Forecast System, GFS) model output and updates the new AVN analyses twice a day. Weather Data in COLA provides Analyses of current conditions, Weather forecasts, Quick-looks and meteograms, Short-term climate outlooks, El Nińo forecasts, and Maximum potential hurricane intensity. The analysis images are provided in a continental scale. All COLA’s weather maps are available via anonymous FTP in GIF files  Ex: Sea Level Pressure & 1000-500mb Thickness

 Global Climate Indices & Western U.S. Impacts http://ww2.wrh.noaa.gov/climate_info/Index.htm This site links to web pages related to global climate indices like ENSO, PDO, and Global Warming, and provides latest updates. Ex: SST and SLP (above), PDO index (below) (SST (colors) and SLP (contours) Regressed onto the PDO index

 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University) http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/ The IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library contains a wide variety of earth science data, primarily oceanographic and atmospheric datasets. It provides a collection of maps (MAPROOM) and other figures that monitor climate conditions at present and in the recent past. The maps and figures can be manipulated and are linked to the original data. You can find data you want in several ways; Datasets by Category, Datasets by Source and Dataset Searches. Ex: Monthly Precipitation Anomaly (mm)

 National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html NCDC is the world’s largest active of weather data, which produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC Climate Resources has many types of environmental or weather observations. These observations can be weather land surface observations, ocean atmospheric observations, weather upper atmospheric observations, weather radar observations, weather satellite observations. Ex: Surface temperature anomalie

 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) (National Center for Atmospheric Research) http://www.ucar.edu/ucar/ UCAR is a consortium of universities dedicated to education and research to enrich our understanding of earth system, which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the UCAR Office of Programs (UOP). It provides collaborative research and community services including Data Resources containing Real Time Weather Data, CCSM Data, Climate Analysis Data, and so on. Ex: Weekly precipitation accumulation (Tucson, AZ)

From Brian McGuire:

http://www.maps.ethz.ch/map_catalogue.html This website isn’t directly concerned about the climate of Asia as it is the natural phenomenon that can only survive due to certain climate regions and patterns.  The tropical rain forests for example, have their own climate zone and I feel it’s important to know where these areas are as well as knowing what type of climate allows the lush vegetation to thrive.  This site also shows in what areas crops are grown along with their respected maps and climate concerns.

 http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/DataMenus.pl?stat=mon.mean&dataset=NCEP This website will probably be one of my most informative sites, due to the fact that you can virtually make your own personal map of just about anything you want (concerning climate).  The maps range from Individual Monthly Means to Daily Climatology to Interannual Standard Deviation.  These will all be of tremendous help for our final presentation.

From Piyachat Rataya:

http://iri.columbia.edu/climate/forecast//  The International Research Institute for Climate Prediction: Seasonal Climate Forecasts, Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Predictions, Statistical Probabilistic ENSO Predictions, Current model ensemble predictions compared to seasonal distributions from historical ensemble simulations (AMIP-type). 

 http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/arad2/html/microwave_1.0deg.html  The Microwave Remote Sensing Product of rainfall, rain frequency, total precipitation water, snow cover, ocean surface wind speed.

 http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/GeographicPortalWorld.html?OpenDocument&Flash=yes EPA Global warming: 7 continents.

 http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/ Center for Climatic Research, Department of Geography, University of Delaware: Climate data.

 http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/ Goddard Institute for Space Studies: data and image.

 http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/ IPCC Special Reports on Climate Change (UNEP and WMO): useful information in books.

 http://orbit35i.nesdis.noaa.gov/arad/gpcp/colormaps.html Global Precipitation map

 http://www.sparc.sunysb.edu/html/noaa/noaa_trop.html Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, State University of New York: Animations of Climatological Annual Cycles (Monthly Means)

 From Jason Schuminski:

http://www.weatherhub.com/index.htm Global weather site

 http://www.worldatlas.com Global mapping site

 From Susan Taunton:

Climate Prediction Center http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/indexnew.html Provides comprehensive background and definitions of multiple global climate phenomena, e.g., different teleconnection patterns, and tools that can be used with databases to enable climate variability analysis and prediction.

“El Nino: A child of the tropics” http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=20901&url=20901/teleconnections_txt.htm  Informative, anecdotal website created and written by high school students. Take the quiz at the end and they will send you your grade!

From Alice Tseng:

www.cnn.com -  http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=FASO This site is similar to msnbc.com. But just a different way of seeing the maps and satellite images

www.msnbc.com

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/stormwatch/?par=msnbc&site=www.msnbc.com&promo=stormwatch This web site is very useful in some degree because you get to choose a place or an area.  Then you can choose and see the  infrared sattelite.  Also evening and night sight and also wind chill forecast. 

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html  This website is more like information about how they gather data.  There is definition explained so we get to know what and how  the everything works like the satellite and radar. 

 http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/  Again this is another great website.  This lets you choose the longitude and latitude.  Images are also provided.  It will help us find the Trewartha types to determine the weather by the handout we got last time in class.  But with all source of information and data and also help us match up the data from the Trewartha types. 

 http://www.nws.noaa.gov/  This web site is also useful.  There is sateillite images and radar and whole bunch of other things.  There is different outlooks at Atlantic and eastern Pacific side.  It divides the information.  This can help us find the Trewartha types.