BAESI Workshop: Using Authentic Data to Teach Meteorology

October 29, 2005

Links:

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/

Live Access server provides the user with microsets of information from NASA satellites. Downloadable.  Use Excel to manipulate and create graphs and charts.

http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/dstreme/

Daily up to date meteorological data and helpful information.  Links to GOES satellite server(http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ ),  the National Weather Service Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/sfc2.shtml), and the Interactive Weather Information Network ----By the National Weather Service (http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/iwdspg1.html )

http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/

Langley NASA Atmospheric Science Center , with specialties in Radiation budget, Tropospheric Ozone, Aerosols and Clouds.  These scientists work with the data from CERES, SAGE III, MOPITT, MISR and TES satellites.

http://www.met.sjsu.edu/weather/  San Jose State University Meteorology department Weather pages.  Excellent source of data, educational help, graphics and much more. Bookmark this one.

http://airnow.gov/

Air Now a division of the EPA which has lots of materials on air quality including ozone and particulates.

http://www.nocfcs.org/index.htm

National Aerosol Products Council. Information and educational materials regarding aerosols.  Note the URL says “No CFCS.” 

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main/index.html

CALIPSO is soon to be launched.  A new satellite to give information on clouds and aerosols.  Part of NASA’s “A Train,” a series of satellites what travel together and give information within 15 minutes of each other, for a very complete set of data regarding our atmosphere.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Earth observatory: a place to find information in a very readable fashion, lots of great images from NASA and educational ideas and much more.

Home pages for the Earth Observing System satellites

http://terra.nasa.gov/ MODIS-Terra, the first, whose “mission is designed to improve understanding of the movements of carbon and energy throughout Earth’s climate system.”

http://aqua.nasa.gov/ MODIS-Aqua, part of the A-Train, whose “mission will be collecting information about the Earth's water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice.”

http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS homepage at Goddard Space Center .  Links to atmosphere, land and ocean.

http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/ceres/ASDceres.html CERES homepage. CERES stands for Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System

http://cloudsat.atmos.colostate.edu/ CloudSAT will be launched soon, not before November 7, 2005 .  It will be part of the A-Train.  It is an “experimental satellite that will use radar to study clouds and precipitation from space.”

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/5-8/features/F_A_Train_Express.html Educator page about the A-Train

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aura/main/index.html Aura, also part of the A-Train, a mission to protect the health of the air we breathe.  It is looking at “the good, the bad and the ozone.”

http://smsc.cnes.fr/PARASOL/GP_satellite.htm PARASOL, a French satellite which is part of the A-Train.  It is looking at “aerosols and clouds for a better understanding of the Earth's climate.”

http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/ NASA’s Global Hydrology and Climate Center , using GOES satellite imagery.  Also predictions on this site.