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COURSE TOOLBOX


Websites with some useful tools

CONTENTS


VISUALIZATIONS /  TOOLS

KNMI Climate Explorer

WorldWatcher Visualization Software - a supportive scientific visualization environment for the investigation of scientific data

GLOBE - International Hands-On Science and Education
Be a part of a global scientific project! For this site, students all over the world gather environmental data at or near their schools and then send it to the GLOBE network via the Internet. Then scientists use the data in their research, and the data is used to make images for daily display on the web.

Globe Project - U of Arizona- based Soil Moisture & Temperature

Global Climate Animations Site -- from the Climate Lab of the University of Oregon Departmetn of Geography


HTML HELP

HTML Tutorials and Guides

Other Sites 

Anabella's HTML Help  (My favorite site! Very simple but contains the basics)

WebPageTutor.com  (a similar "popular style" introduction to HTML; includes a "So you want to make a Web Page" tutorial; lots of distracting ad banners)

Matt's Script Archive


CLIMATE & GLOBAL CHANGE RESOURCES

University of Arizona's Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (ISPE)  & CLIMAS

The IPCC Website - Learn about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

GLOBAL CHANGE MASTER DIRECTORY -  
A comprehensive directory about Earth science and global change data.  (The site is maintained by NASA in support of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.)

Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change: Table of Contents

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE BROWSE SERVER - VISIT OFTEN!

GLOBE - International Hands-On Science and Education
Be a part of a global scientific project! For this site, students all over the world gather environmental data at or near their schools and then send it to the GLOBE network via the Internet. Then scientists use the data in their research, and the data is used to make images for daily display on the web.

MAPS, ATLASES, & GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ONLINE


DICTIONARIES & GLOSSARIES

On-line DICTIONARY & THESAURUS -- by Merriam Webster Online

Physical Geography Online Glossary

EPA Global Warming Site: Glossary of Climate Change Terms

Global Change Acronyms & Abbreviations

More Global Change Acronyms


CALCULATORS & CONVERSION TOOLS

MegaConverter - for conversion of units

Calculators Online Center -- links to every kind of calculator you can imagine

tcaep.co.uk  is published by scenta, in association with The Institute of Physics, as part of a comprehensive range of websites to support physics and physicists and others studying or working in the wider fields of science, engineering and technology.

Includes:

MATH BASICS (numbers, algebra, trigonometry, and more)   
CONSTANTS & EQUATIONS (alphabetical listing of numerous constants and equations used in science)
SI UNITS (all the SI units complete with their units and symbols)
CONVERSIONS (convert to or from many different measurements)
SYMBOLS used in math and science (Greek alphabet, Mathematical symbols)