Specific weather topics

Mostly severe weather phenomena ...

Tornadoes

• Tornadoes, some questions and answers
• the Tornado Project, by Tom Grazulis
• the home page of the storm chasers in the USA and in Australia
• the International Storm Watchers Association
• historical tornado data in the USA
• recent severe storm data, and climatology (USA)
• a primer on US tornadoes (at introductory college level), by Ben Quinn
• a tornado case study (Georgia), from the US NWS
• the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak: a superb resource for detailed analysis

Lightning and fires

• lightning: tutorials, data, theory … from CIRA (incl lightning detection from space)
• lightning safety, from the Lightning Safety Institute
• Real-time cloud-to-ground lightning flash rate are not available for free at this time. Here are links to subscribe to the data in the USA and Australia
• International Fire Weather Network
• Fire weather monitoring in the USA, from the NWS
• Global fire monitoring from space, including

Ø ATSR World Fire Atlas Project, derived from ERS-2 ATSR-2, by ESA

Ø JRC's World Fire Web, derived from NOAA AVHRR, by JRC

Ø MODIS Thermal Anomalies, derived from MODIS, by NASA

Ø Fire Monitoring Worldwide

Tropical cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons

• educational:

All you ever wanted to know about tropical cyclones, by Chris Landsea, Hurricane Research Division

hurricanes !, a good educational site (mainly college level)

Images/movies of hurricanes, from NCDC

Hurricanes and climate change, by the US Global Change Research Program

• hurricane trackers:

current hurricanes in the Atlantic, from Florida State University

Current tropical cyclones globally, from the University of Hawaii

Current tropical cyclones globally, from the Naval Research Lab

Optical phenomena

• Light and optical phenomena, by the Univ. of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
• Nice pictures here

Severe weather

• Severe weather, an educational website and textbook, from the Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Severe weather watching in Australia , impressive work by Michael Bath and Jimmy Deguara.
• Understanding and anticipating deep convection, a series of modules by COMET
• US National Severe Storms Laboratory, incl. a severe weather climatology
• microbursts: links and forecast guidance
• understanding and predicting (mesoscale) gravity waves, by Steve Koch
• severe weather prediction: exercises, from Iowa State University
  
  

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