Here are a few interesting websites worth
checking once in a while :
where you can visualize by yourself some of
the maps we use in class,
for our weather discussions. MM5 is a model
run here at the University
of Washington, in our Department of Atmospheric
Sciences.
If you go to the bottom of that page and click
on
"Submit that selection", you will obtain the
most recent sea surface
pressure map over the West coast and the eastern
Pacific (isobars at
sea level and temperatures in color).
http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/ua_nhem_300.html
where you can see the whereabouts of the jet
stream, at 300 mb, which is
close to the tropopause.
And of course, last but not least, our department's webpage !!!
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/
where you can jump to all sorts of maps, radar
images, satellite
pictures, weather forecast, etc.
You should also have a look at some of these
sites for more information
about current research on El Nino, Climate
Change, etc.
El Nino/Southern Oscillation:
http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/enso/
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html
Environmental News at UNEP:
http://www.unep.ch/iuc
The Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC):
http://www.unep.ch/
Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Group:
http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/PNWimpacts/
The Ozone Hole:
info/ozone.html
Ozone and Montreal Protocol:
http://www.unep.ch/ozone/home.html
Reports to the Nation: El Nino and Climate
Prediction:
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/gcg/RTN/index.html
Impacts of El Nino on the Pacific Northwest:
http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/PNWimpacts/pnw_enso.html
Climate Change Links:
info/climate_change_links.html
Program on the Envoronment:
http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/
Have fun !