Meteorology

General Information:
(in alphabetical order)


Meteorology, Careers in (I)


Provided by the American Meteorological Society, and includes answers to the questions:

  1. Why meteorology?


  2. What is meteorology?


  3. What do meteorologists do?


  4. What do meteorologists earn?


  5. AND MUCH MORE!!


(See also: Meteorology, Job Opportunities)


Meteorology, Careers in (II)


Provided by Dr.Sara Pryor, Associate Professor in the Atmospheric Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Prerequisites for a Job with NOAA's National Weather Service.

(See also: Meteorology, Job Opportunities)


Meteorology, Careers in (III) (Writing Resumes & Cover Letters)


Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.

Includes helpful advice on writing a professional resume and cover letter.

(See also: Meteorology, Job Opportunities)


Meteorology, Definition of


Provided by the Outreach Division at Oklahoma Climatological Survey in Norman, OK.


Meteorology, Demonstrations and Classroom Activities in


From "WW2010" [The Weather World 2010 Project], and the HANDS-ON, MINDS ON METEOROLOGY PROJECT provided by the Department of Atmopsheric Sciences at the The University of Illinois at Champainge-Urbana.

Includes information on the characteristics of air masses and how to identify them on weather maps, how to convert back and forth between local time and UTC, and much more!


Meteorology, Glossary (I) of ,


Provided by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, at Texas A&M University.

An excellent glossary of MANY meteorological terms.



Meteorology, Glossary (II) of ,


Provided by the Outreach Division, of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, in Norman, OK.

An excellent glossary of MANY meteorological terms.


Meteorology, Glossary (III) of ,


Provided by the Southeast Regional Climate Center , at the The University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, NC



Meteorology, History of


Provided by the Meteorology Department at Florida State University.

Includes interesting historical facts about such people as Aristotle, Galileo and Anders Celsius, and how they impacted the science of meteorology.


Meteorology, (Military) History and

Provided by the Weather Team at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Test Center, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Includes a very interesting treatise called "Weather War", written by Cdr. Carl O. Schuster, USN.


Meteorology, Job Opportunities in (I)


Provided by the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, OK.

Includes links to various website pages which provide specific job opportunities in the fields of meteorology and atmospheric science.

(See also: Meteorology, Careers in)


Meteorology, (International) Job Opportunities in (II)


Includes links to various website pages which provide specific job opportunities in meteorology and related disciplines.

This is an international listing provided by:
The Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading (in the UK).

(See also: Meteorology, Careers in)


Meteorology, Job Opportunities in (III)


Provided by the American Meteorological Society, and contains a list of various types of job openings, including such opportunities as:

  1. Research Scientist and Natural Hazards Modeler
  2. Teaching positions
  3. Jobs in Oceanography
  4. Aviation Forecaster jobs
  5. AND MORE!!


(See also: Meteorology, Careers in)


Meteorology, (Electronic) Journals on (I)


Provided by the American Meteorological Society. Author index and abstracts of these technical journals (from the last several years) are available for free viewing. A description of each journal is also available. Subscriptions are required to view entire articles.

Journals include:

  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

  2. Journal of Applied Meteorology

  3. Journal of Physical Oceanography

  4. Monthly Weather Review

  5. Journal of Climate

  6. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

  7. Weather and Forecasting

  8. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

  9. Earth Interactions




(See also: Meteorology, Resources)


Meteorology, (Electronic) Journals on (II)


Published by the National Weather Association.

Including:

  1. NWA National Weather Digest, which consists of a bibliography of Digest articles dating all the way back to 1976.

  2. Electronic Journal of Operational Meteorology.



Meteorology, Resources on


Published by the American Meteorological Society.

Including:

  1. AMS Pressure Blocks

  2. El Nino ENSO-lyzer

  3. Glossary of Weather and Climate

  4. Hands-on Meteorology: Stories, Theories, and
    Simple Experiments

  5. Temperatures Strips

  6. Liquid Crystal Digital

  7. The Stories Clouds Tell

  8. 35-mm Photographic Slide Set

  9. USA TODAY/AMS Transparency Set

  10. USA TODAY, The Weather Book

  11. Water Vapor: The Unseen Weather, Classroom-
    ready Activity

  12. Water Vapor: The Unseen Weather, VHS
    videotape.

  13. Weather Radar VHS Videotape


ONLINE PURCHASING PROVIDED AT THIS
SITE.

See also: (Meteorology, Journals) and (Meteorology, Teaching)


Meteorology, Software


The following site provided by the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley:

Temperature Conversion software (includes Kelvin, Celcius, Fahrenheit, Rankine and Reaumur), or

(Alternate) Temperature Conversion Software from the Institute of Chemistry in Berlin, Germany.



Meteorology, Teaching (I)


This site is provided by the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command , as part of their Zeus's Web program.

It includes an extensive list of excellent LESSON PLANS for teachers who want to provide "hands-on" exercises for their students to help them understand and appreciate the science of meteorology.

Lesson plans for children in every grade, from elementary to high school, can be found here.



Meteorology, Teaching (II),


This site provided by the National Academy Press, and based on the use of National Science Education Standards

Aimed at those who teach young children (4th grade age).


Meteorology, Teaching (III)


This site was originally produced by NASA, as part of their "Learning Technologies Project. It includes lots of good teaching information for K-12 students.


Meteorology, Teaching (IV)


The DataStreme Project:

DataStreme is a teacher enhancement program of the American Meteorological Society and supported by the National Science Foundation. Its main goal is the training of resource teachers who will promote the teaching of weather across the K-12 curriculum in their home school districts.

Another goal is to upgrade scientific literacy by motivating teachers and through them, their students, to develop and nurture active interests in science, mathematics and technology. After proper registration, a 13-week course is offered twice a year to selected participants.

The DataStreme Project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.


Meteorology, Teaching (V)


Provided by Environment Canada and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.

This is an excellent resource for teachers, titled, "Project Atmosphere Canada (PAC)- Teachers Guide." It consists of thirteen modules (in .pdf format) dealing with various topics related to meteorology and the atmospheric sciences. These tutorials are designed for those teaching grades K through 12, and address the following topics:

  1. Thunderstorms


  2. Hurricanes


  3. Winter Storms


  4. Weather Radar: Detecting Precipitation


  5. Weather Radar: Detecting Motion


  6. The Coriolis Effect


  7. Air/Sea Interaction


  8. Clouds


  9. Pressure: Highs and Lows and MUCH MORE!!


Meteorology, Teaching (VI)


Provided by the American Meteorological Society.

An online weather studies course available to undergraduate institutions nationwide and offered as an introductory college course.

INFORMATION ON ORDERING THE "ONLINE WEATHER STUDIES" GUIDE IS ALSO AVAILABLE.


Meteorology,Teaching (VII),


This site provided by the: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

Includes an excellent set of sites designed for K-12 outreach activities. Links to educational weather and climate sites from various universities are also provided.


Meteorology, Teaching (VIII),


Provided by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Includes information about how to teach meteorology using methods of "active learning".


Meteorology, Teaching (IX),


Provided by the Department of Atmopsheric Sciences at the The University of Illinois at Champainge-Urbana.

A "Hands-On, Minds-On" meteorology tutorial, "utilizing guided instruction and interactive computer simulations to understand atmospheric processes and principles."


Meteorology, Teaching (X),


This informative set of teaching tutorials is entitled, "Jetstream," and is provided by the National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas.

Includes a comprehensive study of the following weather topics:

  1. The Atmosphere (Origin and Structure)


  2. Global Weather Patterns and Circulations


  3. Synoptic Meteorology


  4. Thunderstorms


  5. Tropical Weather (Hurricanes and El Nino)


  6. Remote Sensing (Satellite and Radar)




Meteorology, Teaching (XI),


Provided by the Department of Atmopsheric Sciences at the The University of Illinois at Champainge-Urbana.

This comprehensive set of tutorials is titled, "WW2010" and includes information on meteorology, remote sensing, interpreting weather maps, etc.


Meteorology, Teaching (XII)


This site is provided by NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and offers a number of links to weather-related material for students and teachers.


Meteorology, Teaching (XIII)


This site is provided by NOAA's Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services and offers a number of links to weather-related material for students and teachers, ranging anywhere from coloring books, puzzles and games to lesson plans, brochures, satellite images and career information for weather-related fields.


Meteorology and/or Environmental Science, Universities with Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in (I)


This includes a partial list of universities that offer degree programs in meteorology. Provided by: the National Severe Storms Laboratory.

Note: This includes direct links to pertinent homepages for each university.




Meteorology and/or Environmental Science, Universities with Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in (II)


This site provided by: the American Meteorological Society.

Universities offering Bachelor Degree

Universities offering Masters Degree

Universities offering PhD Degree



Note: These sites also provide a copy of the curriculum for each university, as well as names of the faculty staff (by clicking on the arrow, to the left of each listing). These are PDF files, and Acrobat Reader is required to access them.


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