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How the Weather Works --
General
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Simple
- Learn
About the Weather -- an updated and extensive set of pages
on common weather topics from the BoM (28/08/00)
- Weather
teaching kit -- activities, "how-to's" and resources
for teachers, based on the Victorian Curriculum Standards Framework.
BoM (17/02/02)
- Weather
and Sport -- the impact of weather on different sporting activities
is described, along with weather services for sportspeople. BoM.
(17/02/02)
- Project
Atmosphere Australia Online -- a teacher-developed, online
project designed to develop an involvement in meteorology for
school communities in Australia and around the world. (08/08/01)
- An comprehensive
glossary of weather terms with an Australian focus from WeatherZone.
(06/10/02)
- A Glossary
of weather and climate terms from the BoM (24/05/00)
- Another detailed meteorological
glossary from David Whiteman, USA (26/05/01)
- The Indigenous
Weather Knowledge website. The site, a joint effort by the
Indigenous communities, ATSIC, the Bureau of Meteorology, and
Monash Universitys Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies
(CAIS) and School of Geography and Environmental Science, features
seasonal weather calendars developed over thousands of years by
Indigenous communities across Australia. (13/12/02)
- Well organised, detailed and growing
notes on Aviation
Meteorology for Australia from the Australian
Ultralight Federation. (26/05/01)
- Weather-wise.com --
a pot pouri of weather articles and information with an Australian
slant. (21/05/00)
- USA Today's How
the Weather Works (21/03/00)
- The sci.geo.meteorology
FAQs: A treasure trove of FAQs developed out of the combined
wisdom of the earliest weather newsgroup, and a testimony to its
founder, Ilana Stern. It covers web, print, CDROM and net resources,
sources of weather data, storms, cyclones, satellite imagery,
and lots more. So comprehensive has it become that it has its
own FAQ
about the FAQs! (14/10/00)
- About
Weather, from about.com.
A well-organised series of explanations and links about many common
weather topics. US-based. (25/09/00)
- The
Weather Science Hotlist from Franklin Institute Science Museum
- links to explanations or demonstrations of hundreds of weather
topics (21/03/00)
Advanced
- Online
Meteorology Tutorials from the Meteorology
Department at Texas A&M University (21/03/00)
- Meteorological
and Forecasting Tutorials online from the US
Marine Corps Weather School. (07/05/00)
- Meteorology
basics -- lecture notes from UCLA (05/06/00)
- Climates
and Weather Explained, by Edward Linacre and Bart Geerts.
An interesting site which updates the book with case studies and "shorticles" on
meteorology and climatology. Some good Australian content. (21/03/00)
- The
Revolution in the Understanding of Weather - an unusual meteorological
textbook written in real time on the web by Oscar Singer (21/03/00)
- An
assortment of weather articles by Joseph
Bar-Tholomai. US based, but some items on southern hemisphere.
(07/05/00)
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