Earth System

• NASA Earth from Space
• USGS Earthshots- views of global climatic and environmental change
• NASA Earth Observatory
• NESDIS Operational Significant Imagery - current satellite environmental impact imagery
• DLESE - Digital Library for Earth System Education

Atmospheric

• The AMS DataStreme Project
• NOAA Weather homepage
• NWS Homepages - Forecast Offices, River Forecast Centers, etc.
• University of Wyoming - Allows selection of detail, single parameter surface maps
• NWS Radar Page - National or local radar images and animations
• NOAA GOES Homepage - Visible, infrared, and water vapor views from GOES satellites
• NASA GOES Homepage - Additional source of geostationary satellite data
• Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin - Views from the different geostationary satellites and composite images from multiple satellites
• Hydrometeorological Prediction Center - Precipitation analyses and forecasts
• National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center - Current tropical storm/hurricane tracks (if any), forecasts, and historical data
• Storm Prediction Center - Tornado and severe thunderstorm outlook, statistics, and historical archive
• Interactive Weather Information Network - Severe weather watches and warnings, continually updated
• NWS Internet Weather Source - Worldwide surface station data
• NOAA's Wind and Sea - Oceanic and atmospheric Internet topics locator

Climate and Climate Change

• NOAA Climate homepage
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center
  • Monitoring and data
• Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• US National Assessment on Climatic Change

Oceanic (and Inland Seas)

• NOAA Ocean homepage
• NOAA Ocean Prediction Center
• Coriolis operational oceanographic profiles
• Oceanweather ® marine data and observations
• Ocean surface currents - HYCOM Consortium
• NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
• NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
• NOAA Ocean Modeling Branch Sea Ice data
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• NASA SeaWiFS Project
• NOAA's Wind and Sea - Oceanic and atmospheric Internet topics locator
• US Naval Oceanographic Office products
  Note - Requires acceptance of secure encryption process
• Archived Gulf Steam temperatures - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Terrestrial

• USGS Water Resources - includes realtime water data and technical resources information
  • Groundwater information and links
  • Surface Water information and links
  • Water Quality information and links, data
• NWS Current Hydrologic conditions
• National Drought Mitigation Center
• Climate Prediction Center soil moisture monitoring

Educational

• AMS Educational Materials
• The GLOBE Program
• USGS' Water Science for Schools
• Environment Canada's Nature of Water
• Universities Council on Water Resources and Universities Water Information Network
• UCAR's K-12 Educational Resources and Links
• EPA Environmental Education Page
• U. Minn. - Water on the Web
• Oceanography on the Web
• Ocean World at Texas A&M
• Bridge - Ocean Science Education
• Rutgers Ocean Education Resources, COOL Classroom
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Expeditions
• Weather and Climate references - web links, books, magazines, etc.
• Career Information:
  • AMS Atmospheric Science Careers
  • AMS careers in atmospheric research
  • US and Canadian Universities with atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic curricula
  • UCOWR careers in water resources
  • Women in Oceanography

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