Weather Related Internet Resources

Soundings ...

... from Florida State University (Stuve, Skew-T, P-surfaces): http://www.met.fsu.edu/CUDOS/rawin.html

... from the University of Wyoming (Stuve, Skew-T, Text): http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

... from Texas A&M (Skew-T): http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/students/weather/soundings/

... from Ohio State (Skew-T): http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/skewt.html

... from Unisys Weather (Skew-T): http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/index.html

... from NCAR (Skew-T): http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/

... from NOAA FSL (Skew-T): http://www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/soundings/java/

Interactive soundings from MAPS analyses and forecasts

(Past 36 hours and up to 36 hours into the future), also RAOB, and Profiler data (requires Java)
Soundings from the MAPS Analysis http://www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mab/soundings/

(Current and past 16 hours) (non-Java)

... from NOAA GOES sounder data (Skew-T): http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/soundings

... from FSL ACARS data (Skew-T, java, restricted access [open to ERAU campus]): http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/java/

... from FSL ACARS data (Skew-T, non-java, restricted access [open to ERAU campus]): http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/oper/

Stability Indices

Severe Weather Data / Ohio St. Univ.: http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/severe.html

Upper Air Stability Analyses Page - NWS Lubbock, TX http://dryline.nws.noaa.gov/quick_wx/ua_stab.html

GOES Atmospheric Soundings Fields http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/soundings/html/fields.html

Stability Indices / Soundings Explained (Educational)

Convective Season Parameters and Indices - NWS Louisville, KY

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/soo/docu/indices.htm

A FINGERTIP GUIDE TO KEY UPPER AIR INDEX VALUES - NWS Pittsburgh, PA

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/pit/tlgsvr.htm

Help with a typical Skew-T Plot (from Ohio State Univ.)

http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/helpdocs/skew_T_help.html

Expressing Conventional Instability Indices in Terms of Equivalent Potential Temperatures: http://andromeda.hail.ersa.fvg.it/~morgan/indtheta.html

A description of Atmospheric Soundings: Explaining the stability indices on a sounding.

http://www.nemas.net/edu/soundings/soundings.htm

QUICK REFERENCE

NEMAS Education Pages

(Horizontal) Maps

Real-Time Weather Data: Upper-Air Page http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/

Unisys Weather: Upper Air Data http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/index.html

Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Current Analyses: http://www.iges.org/pix/analyses.html

Cross-sections

ADDS Flight Path Tool (Java) http://adds.aviationweather.gov/projects/adds/flight_path/index.html

GOES derived Cross Sections http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/soundings/html/xsect.html

GOES derived Cross Section Loops http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/soundings/html/xsectloop.html

Surface Data

METAR / TAF

ADDS TAF Tool http://adds.aviationweathergov/projects/adds/tafs/index.html

ADDS Metar Page http://adds.aviationweathergov/projects/adds/metars/

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/

Retrieve current/recent weather text data http://opwx.db.erau.edu/wx_text.html

Help with Decoding Data

Weather Symbol Look-up Table: http://adds.aviationweathergov/projects/adds/metars/description3.html

AVIATION ROUTING WEATHER REPORT (METAR) http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/METAR/metar.html

NWS METAR/TAF Information Page http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/oso1/oso12/metar.htm

Surface Maps

Real-Time Weather Data: Surface Page http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/

Analysis and 12 to 48 hour Prog Charts http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/progs/

Unisys Weather: Surface Data http://weather.unisys.com/surface/index.html

Lots of different types of plots:

a composite surface map, weather depiction for aviation, regional plots for the US, Canada, Mexico and Alaska.

contoured analyses of various parameters including temperature and pressure

meteograms which are time cross-sections for individual cities

FSU Met. Dept. http://www.met.fsu.edu/Classes/Met3502/wximages.html

Marine Observations

National Data Buoy Center - NDBC

NDBC Station locator map: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/wrldmap.shtml

a series of regional, image maps showing general locations.
NDBC Station ID List and Search: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/to_station.shtml

the fastest approach if you know the station identifier.

The National Weather Service Office in Tallahassee, FL http://www.nws.fsu.edu/buoy/

has NDBC buoy and C-MAN data are accessible within the current hour of the observation and remain available for up to 36 hours.
The Great Lakes Forecasting System (GLFS) WWW page http://superior.eng.ohio-state.edu/

makes the latest NDBC data from the Great Lakes available along with a variety of other data sources from the area.
Marine Prediction Center provides a 3 hour Regional Sea State Analysis for the Atlantic. http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/AtlRegSSA.html

Marine Prediction Center provides a 3 hour Regional Sea State Analysis for the Pacific. http://www.mpc.ncep.noaa.gov/RSSA/PacRegSSA.html