USEFUL WEB SITES for EAS 270

Weather Analysis/Forecasting

• Today's Analysis/Forecast maps (source for discussions in EAS 270)(this page gives 12Z charts only + tips to resize them)
• Environment Canada Analyses and Forecasts
• Edmonton sounding
• Atmospheric soundings
• Nav Canada (go here for PIREPS, etc.)
• Nav Canada weather codes and symbols
• Weather map (with fronts)
• Prairie text forecasts
• NWS (US) Operational Analysis/Forecast (ETA Model)
• Unisys site for graphical weather information (includes progs from many models)
• Weather Underground

Environment/Severe Weather

• The ozone hole
• State of the ozone layer over Canada
• Ozone hole observations ... NASA (follow link to Ozone Hole Monitoring page)
• Hurricane information (Sun-Sentinel)
• NOAA National Hurricane Center
• NASA Hurricane Resource Page
• HurricaneTrack.com (live video)
• Weather Underground site for tropical weather/storms
• WeatherUSA (another site for tropical storms)

Other

• Cloud Pictures with Classification
• Video: Prairie hang gliding at Tofield Alberta, 2003 (3MB mpeg file). Beaverhill Lake (seen from about 3500 feet AGL).
• Video of a Windbreak experiment at Ellerslie, 2003 (6MB mpeg file)

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Last Modified: Dec. 5, 2006