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Subject: Sources of Meteorological Data FAQ Part 1/2
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology,news.answers,sci.answers
From: [e-mail] (Ilana Stern)
Date: 15 Nov 1994 12:00:07 GMT

Archive-name: weather/data/part1
Last-modified: 14 Nov 1994

Recent changes:

  ==within last two weeks==
Added Education section to topic index
Added Oceanography section to topic index
Added faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu WWW site for weather unit for grades 2-4
Added milkman.cac.psu.edu WWW site for offshore weather observations
Added orpheus.ucsd.edu WWW site for index of oceanographic sites
Added www.esdim.noaa.gov WWW pointer to oceanography resources
Added www.whoi.edu WWW site for index of oceanography WWW Servers
Added www-ccs.ucsd.edu WWW site for Center for Coastal Studies info
Added www.awi-bremerhaven.de WWW site for hydrographic atlas
Added www.wrc.noaa.gov WWW site for oceanographic climatologies
Added dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl WWW site for altimetry atlas
Added www.nohrsc.nws.gov WWW site for snow cover data

  ==within last four weeks==


This is a guide to Internet sources of meteorological, oceanographic,
and geophysical data.  Contents:

 1)  Overview
 2)  How to get a current copy of this document
 3)  How to use this document
 4)  Topic Index
 5)  List of sites
 6)  How to use the data retrieval methods

Each (major) section has a "Subject:" line, so you can search on the
subject title above to find the section quickly.

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Subject:  Overview

This is part 1 of a guide to various sources of meteorological,
oceanographic, and geophysical data.  Some of these data sets are intended
for enjoyment or hobbyist use;  other data are more research-oriented.
Much of the research data is not free and is not directly available over
the network; usually, only information about this data is available, and
you must place an order for the actual data.

The contents of this series of FAQs are:

Part 1:  Meteorological data available via the Internet
Part 2:  Meteorological data available via tape, CD-ROM, and other media

The section on mailing lists which used to be included in this FAQ
is now a separate FAQ, "Mailing lists and newsgroups for meteorology".

This article is copyright (c) 1993,1994 by Ilana Stern.  It may be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes only, provided that this copyright
notice and the instructions on retrieving a current copy are not
removed.  The information in this article is provided as-is, with no
warranties or assurances as to its accuracy.  I prefer that archives
maintain current copies, since this information changes rapidly.  If
you would like to put this article in an archive and want to receive
a new copy automatically at every update, please send me email.

Corrections, additions, and comments should be sent to Ilana Stern at
[e-mail].  Please include in your message where you read
this document.  Note that if I know about it, it's in this document.

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Subject:  How to get a current copy of this document

If you are reading this document after 29 Nov 1994, you are reading an
outdated copy. A current copy can be obtained by anonymous FTP to
rtfm.mit.edu, from the file weather/data/part1 in the directory
/pub/usenet/news.answers.  These files are updated every two weeks,
when a new copy is posted to sci.geo.meteorology, news.answers,
and sci.answers.  This document also appears on the mailing lists
CLIMLIST and met-stud, which are described in the FAQ, "Mailing Lists
for Meteorology".

If you can't use FTP, send email to [e-mail] with
send /pub/usenet/news.answers/weather/data/part1
as the only text in the message (leave the subject blank).

Other sources for this document:
ftp://vmd.cso.uiuc.edu/wx/sources.doc
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/weather/top.html
  (in somewhat hypertext form!)

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Subject:  How to use this document

  As the amount of information available over the networks has been
increasing, so have the methods by which this information can be obtained.
No longer is direct usage of FTP the only, or even the most frequent, method
of obtaining data;  we now have Gopher, Wais, and WWW, as well as many
site-specific interfaces.  Because the information itself may be accessible
in many different ways, this FAQ will identify resources in terms of
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators).  This will also help convert this
FAQ to a hypertext document, so that it can be used with a WWW browser
to go directly to any of the listed sources.
  Here's a glossary, so you can decode the URLs if necessary to reach
the sites:

        ftp://host.name.domain/directory/[filename]     ftp site
        http://host.name.domain/directory/[filename]    www server
        telnet://host.name.domain                       telnet site
        gopher://host.name.domain                       gopher server
        wais://host.name.domain                         wais server
        news:newsgroup.name                             newsgroup

  So, for example, if a document is available at ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/
it means that you should ftp to ncardata.ucar.edu, and the information is
in the top-level directory.
  If you don't know what these information retrieval methods are, see
the section "How to use the data retrieval methods".

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Subject: Topic Index

1) Current weather (satellite images)
2) Current weather and forecasts (maps, radar, soundings)
3) Current weather and forecasts (text)
4) Special event information (may be transient)
5) Other images
6) Map data
7) Research data and metadata
8) Software
9) Pointers to other resources
10) Education resources
11) Oceanographic data

This section lists the names and access protocol of sites of interest, with
a brief blurb as to their contents.  See section 5 for more information
about these sites.  Some sites appear more than once under different subject
headings.  Some sites have identical contents;  please use the site closest
to you.

1. Current weather (satellite images)

a) North America
b) Europe
c) Pacific
d) Other

a. North America

a1. Hourly GOES visible and IR (last few days)

ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/
ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/
ftp://wx.research.att.com/wx/
gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/
gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/images/
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/1/wxascii/gophergrafx/satpix/
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/satimg.html
afs://afs/athena.mit.edu/project/weather

a2. Daily full-disk GOES

gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu:70/11/gsdc.d/

a3. Image archives (older images)

gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/
gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/11/Images/GOES/
gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/11/Images/AVHRR/

a4. Other

ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/
  GOES vis/IR images of North, Central America
ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/photos/
  GOES-7, NOAA-series images of central and eastern Canada (non-current)
ftp://uriacc.uri.edu/davet.195/ (VMS)
  NOAA-11 images of the northeast US
ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/
  Visible and IR images of the US
ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu/pub/weathergifs/
  Visible and IR images of the US
ftp://rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca/pub/sat_images/
  NOAA-11/12 mosaic images of North America
ftp://photo1.si.edu//More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.gif/
  NOAA and other satellite images
ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/pub/jpg
  NOAA-10 and -11 AVHRR images of the US, Alaska and Canada
  false color composite of bands 1,3&4 in JPEG format
gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps/
  Visible and IR over North America
gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/photos/
  GOES-7, NOAA-series images of central and eastern Canada (non-current)
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Images
  US IR and vis GIF images
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/1/wxascii/gophergrafx/satpix
  Water vapor, enhanced infrared over US
gopher://meteor.atms.purdue.edu/
  GOES vis, IR, composites, enhanced images over US and Indiana
gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/images/
  GOES 1.1 km vis images of Tallahassee, Orlando, Florida
gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/
  GOES vis, IR images of North America, western US, eastern US, plus floater
wais://quake.think.com:210/weather/
  Searchable weather index containing satellite maps
http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/
  GOES vis, IR, composites, enhanced images over US and Indiana
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/satimg.html
  GOES vis and IR over North America, MPEG animations
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html
  SST off US east coast from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  GOES visible and IR images over North America

b. Europe

ftp://ftp.met.ed.ac.uk/
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe
ftp://ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe, globe in gif format
ftp://ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk/
  NOAA AVHRR images of Europe
ftp://liasun3.epfl.ch
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe
ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au
  Full-disk GMS vis/IR images
ftp://unicorn.nott.ac.uk/pub/sat-images/
 Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe, globe in jpeg format
ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe, Africa in gif format
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html
  Latest Meteosat vis/IR image of Europe, Africa in jpeg format
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/
  NOAA AVHRR images of Europe
gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/Maps
  UK, Europe, Scandinavian visible and IR
gopher://gopher.uni-bayreuth.de:70/11/Service/Meteosat/
  Meteosat vis/IR images of Europe
gopher://cognac-f.epfl.ch:70/11/Divers/meteo/
  Images of Europe
http://web.nexor.co.uk/places/satelite.html/
  IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  IR, vis images of Europe and N. Africa in gif and jpeg format
telnet://cspnsv.csp.it:5000/
  Meteosat images

c. Pacific

ftp://boa.gsfc.nasa.gov/Weather/gms/ (for use by east America, Europe)
  Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf
ftp://ftp.gphs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/weather/pictures
  GMS images over New Zealand in JPEG format
ftp://ftp.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/
  GMS-4 images of Australia, TOGA/COARE area
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/Weather/ (for use by west America)
  Full-disk GMS-4 vis/IR hourly images, GOES-7 half-hourly, GOES-8, in
  gif and hdf
ftp://plaza.aarnet.edu.au/Weather (for use by Australia, NZ, Asia)
  Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf
ftp://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/data/noaa/
  Quick-look HRPT images of Japan, Pacific in pgm format
ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/
  5-channel and SST data from AVHRR on NOAA-11, NOAA-12, full-disk and
  TOGA/COARE GMS-4 vis/IR hourly
ftp://wilbur.stanford.edu/
  Images of Australia, TOGA/COARE area in gif format
gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/11/Australian%20Weather%20Information/Images
  Images of Australia
gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/
  GMS and NOAA images of Japan and Pacific
gopher://nippori.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
  Quick-look NOAA jpg images of Pacific -- archive back to November 1992
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  Full-disk GMS vis/IR hourly images in gif and hdf format
http://life.anu.edu.au:80/weather.html
  Various images & forecasts for Australia, world
http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/
  5-channel and SST data from AVHRR on NOAA-11, NOAA-12, full-disk and
  TOGA/COARE GMS-4 vis/IR hourly
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html
  SST in NW Pacific from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html

d. Other

ftp://photo1.si.edu//More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium/weather.gif/
  Images from various satellites
gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu/70/
  Antarctic composite images, worldwide composite
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/1/wximages/antartica/sat/
  Satellite images over Antarctica
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  Antarctic composite images, worldwide composite
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html
  SST in various places from high resolution NOAA polar orbiter


2. Current weather and forecasts (maps, radar, soundings)

a. US maps:  6-panel, UA, surface

ftp://early-bird.think.com/pub/weather/maps/
ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/wx/
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images/wx/

b. Other

ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/maps/
  Canadian weather map (in French or English) (not current)
ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/
  Surface analyses, radar summaries, soundings for various locations
ftp://kestrel.umd.edu/pub/wx/
  Surface maps for Alaska, US regions (see files 00<name>)
ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/
  Surface analyses, radar summaries, meteorgrams, skewT for various locations
telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/
  Surface T, SLP, radar, wind, surface data for US and S.E. US (using WXP)
gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/
  Surface & upper air analyses, forecasts, meteorgrams for Vermont, N.E. US
gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/maps/
  Canadian weather map (in French or English) (not current)
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Images
  Current Asian, European, South American temperatures and precipitation
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/1/wxascii/gophergrafx/surface
  Surface analyses for Ohio, US, Antarctica, Alaska
gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/1mcidas.70
  Southeast US skew-T, meteorgrams, mesoscale analyses, upper-air plots
gopher://meteor.atms.purdue.edu/
  Surface & upper air analyses, forecast model output, radar, skewT,
  meteorgrams for US states
gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/
  Radar summaries, upper air plots, soundings, for US states;  surface
  plots for US states, Canada, Caribbean
gopher://grizzly.uwyo.edu/
  Four-panel US maps from forecast models, meteorgrams, forecasts for US
  states, regional surface maps, radar
gopher://unidata.ucar.edu:70/11/Images/
  Surface analyses, radar summaries, meteorgrams, skewT for various locations
gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/11/
  Forecast model output (ECMWF, NMC), Oswego lake effect model output images
gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/
  Six-panel US maps (various variables), UA and surface maps (US, Canada)
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  Six-panel US maps (various weather variables), radar maps
http://aristarchus.rutgers.edu/weather.html
  Weather map with radar (US) (updated every 20 minutes!):
http://cs.indiana.edu/weather/panels.html
  Six-panel US maps
http://cs.indiana.edu/weather/surface.html
  Current surface weather map
http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/
  Surface & upper air analyses, forecast model output, radar, skewT,
  meteorgrams for US states
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/wxworld/html/top.html
  Surface and upper air analyses, 6-panel maps, soundings, forecast model
  output for US and US regions
http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/
  Surface analysis for US, plus forecasts


3. Current weather and forecasts (text)

A. Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, ski conds, severe wx)
B. Other North American forecasts
C. Forecasts elsewhere

a. Weather Undergrounds (US/Canada fcsts, global reports, ski conds, severe wx)

gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Text
telnet://downwind.sprl.umich.edu:3000/
telnet://hermes.merit.edu/
telnet://measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu:3000/
telnet://thunder.met.fsu.edu:3000/
telnet://vortex.weather.brockport.edu:3000/
telnet://wind.atmos.uah.edu:3000/

b. Other North American current weather and forecasts

ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/
  Some US city and Oregon weather forecasts
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/pub/weather/
  Colorado weather forecasts
telnet://duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com
  Aviation weather -- pilots only
telnet://empire.cce.cornell.edu
  Climate data and information (login "guest"), select "Weather" then "CLIMOD"
telnet://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu
  Observations and forecasts for US
telnet://shelley.ca.uky.edu
  Zone forecasts for US States, central US river stage forecasts,
  detailed Kentucky information (login "kyag")
gopher://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu:70/
  Forecasts and summaries for US as whole, N.E. US
gopher://ashpool.micro.umn.edu/11/Weather/
  Current weather and forecasts for US, Canada
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/
  Forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean;  severe weather, NMC products, tropical
  observations and forecasts, marine and aviation weather
gopher://gopher.atmos.albany.edu
  Forecasts and other weather products for eastern New York State
gopher://gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov/
  River stage forecasts for Arkansas-Red River Basin (central US)
gopher://mcidas.uncc.edu/
  Many National Weather Service products for Southeast US
gopher://metlab1.met.fsu.edu/11/weather
  Florida weather and forecasts
gopher://nevado.srcc.lsu.edu/
  Observations and forecasts for south central US states
gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca/
  Canadian forecasts
gopher://shelley.ca.uky.edu/11/.weather
  Zone forecasts for US States, central US river stage forecasts,
  detailed Kentucky information
gopher://swami.tamu.edu/
  Agricultural weather forecasts and reports for southern US, esp. Texas
gopher://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/
  Current weather at SUNY brockport, US forecasts
gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/
  Current weather and forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean
http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/
  Current weather and forecast for Lansing, MI
http://swami.tamu.edu/
  Agricultural weather forecasts and reports for southern US, esp. Texas
http://www.mit.edu:8001/weather/
  Current weather and forecasts for US cities

c. Current weather and forecasts elsewhere

telnet://vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au:55555/
  Australian weather observations and forecasts
gopher://babel.ho.bom.gov.au/11/Australian%20Weather%20Information
  Australian weather summaries, forecasts, warnings
gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp:70/11/INFO/weather/
  Japan weather forecasts (in Kanji)
gopher://tortel.dcc.uchile.cl:70/
  Chilean weather forecasts (in Spanish)
http://milkman.cac.psu.edu/~reh113/index.html
  Offshore weather data (global)
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/deutsch/Wetter/meldungen.html
  Berlin weather (in German)


4. Special event information (may be transient)

A. Still images
B. Movies
C. Text

a. Still images

ftp://unidata.ucar.edu/images/
  Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin
ftp://ats.orst.edu/pub/weather/
  Hurricane Andrew and Emily images
ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.andrew
  Hurricane Andrew images and weather maps
ftp://ftp.colorado.edu/pub/weather-images/hurricane.emily
  Hurricane Emily images and weather maps
ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/hurricane_Andrew
  Hurricane Andrew images
ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/
  "Blizzard of 93", midwest flood, Malibu fires smoke plume jpeg images
ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/gumley/
  Midwest flood images
ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/spectactular
  Hurricane Fernanda images
ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/avhrr/images
  Hurricanes John, Emilia and Fabio
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Archives/
  Blizzard of 93, hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, Emily, Elena;  tornado paths
gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu:70/11/Images/Hurricane%20Emily/
  Hurricane Emily track (gif and ps) and image
gopher://unidata.ucar.edu:70/11/Images/
  Images of hurricanes Emily, Hugo, Beryl, Kevin
http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/fernanda.html
  Hurricane Fernanda images
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/weather.html
  California fires, hurricane Emily track
http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/images/eclipse.html
  Images of May 10, 1994 annular eclipse

b. Movies

ftp://earthsun.umd.edu/JEI/GOES
  "Blizzard of 93" movie in .flc format
ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/pub/info-mac/art/qt/
  Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93"
gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/eclipse
  MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/weather.html
  Hurricane Emily movies (mpg)
http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/eclipse/
  MPEG of GOES-7 and GOES-8 images during May 10 1994 eclipse

c. Text

ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/DMSP/SERVICES/WEEKLY/TCYCLONE
  Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary
ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/cac
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices, monthly mean and anomaly fields
gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/climate/nino/
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices (CMAF climate monitoring)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/weekly.html
  Tropical Cyclone Weekly summary
http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/
  Space weather (magnetic and solar)


5. Other images

ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/SPACE/CDROM/
  Various earth-from-space images
ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/cdrom/
  Viking, Magellan, Voyager images from CD-ROMs
ftp://snow.nohrsc.nws.gov/
  Snow cover maps of US derived from GOES and AVHRR
ftp://sseop.jsc.nasa.gov/
  Pictures taken from the space shuttle in bitmap format
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/11/Weather_Archives/Clouds/
  Images of Whole earth, various types of clouds
telnet://sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu/
  AVHRR images of USA
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar.html
  SIR-C/X-SAR space radar images of Earth
http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/
  Space weather (magnetic and solar), current solar images


6. Map data

ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/
  Mapping software and datasets
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/
  Elevation data
ftp://spectrum.xerox.com/pub/map/
  Various USGS data
gopher://ageninfo.tamu.edu/11/apl-us
  Shaded relief map of USA generated from 30 arc second DEM dataset
http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/apl-us/
  Shaded relief map of USA generated from 30 arc second DEM dataset
http://walleye.forestry.umn.edu:70/0/www/main.html
  University of Minnesota remote sensing lab (choose GIS information)
http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl
  Sea surface altimetry atlas computed from satellite data
http://www.ucar.edu/dss/geo.html
  Elevation data, vegetation data


7. Research data and metadata

a) Primary data centers
b) Other sites

a. Primary data centers

ftp://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pub
  Data and information from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/
  NGDC datasets, CD-ROM information
ftp://ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed
  Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
ftp://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/
  Info on datasets available from NCDC, some data
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/
  Info on datasets available from NCAR, some small datasets directly available
ftp://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov/
  Info on NSSDC datasets and global change data
telnet://eosdis.larc.nasa.gov
  Info on datasets available from EOSDIS (login "ims", password "larcims")
telnet://esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov
  Info on datasets, satellites, sensors (login "NOAADIR")
telnet://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Access to the Global Change Master Directory (login "gcdir")
telnet://glis.cr.usgs.gov
  Info on datasets available from USGS
telnet://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov
  Info on datasets available from NCDC (login "storm", password "research")
telnet://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Info on NSSDC datasets
telnet://santa.asf.alaska.edu
  Info on and data from SAR satellites (login "ACSUSER", password "ALASKASAR")
gopher://140.90.5.206/
  Information from the National Weather Service about changes to data
  formats and transmissions
gopher://esdim1.esdim.noaa.gov/11/NOAA_systems
  Links to NOAA gopher and telnet sites
gopher://gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov/
  NGDC datasets, CD-ROM information
gopher://gopher.nodc.noaa.gov/
  Connections to various government agencies:  NOAA, NIST, EPA, DOE, etc.
wais://ridgisd.er.usgs.gov
  DOE_Climate_Data.src: Contains info about climate data sets
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
  Access to the Global Change Master Directory
http://info.er.usgs.gov/
  United States Geological Survey (USGS)
http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/info/holdings.html
  On-line data from USGS Global Change Research Program -- mean SST and sea ice
http://noaacdc.colorado.edu/cdc/cdc_home.html
  Info on data available from NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center
http://seazar.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed
  Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
http://starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov/pds_home.html
  Info and data from NASA planetary missions and experiments
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/
  Info on datasets available from NCDC (alias of hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html
  National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), info about datasets
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html
  Info about, and sample data from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/
  Snow cover measurements in US, Canada
http://www.sel.bldrdoc.gov/
  Info about data products from NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory
http://www.ucar.edu/metapage.html
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), info and small datasets
http://www.wrc.noaa.gov/pmelhome.html
  NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab data
http://wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the Marshall Space Flight Center
  Distributed Active Archive Center (MSFC.DAAC)

b. Other sites

ftp://192.67.134.72/pub/
  Some NOAA and NCDC data
ftp://aprf.arl.mil/pub/profiles/
  Real-time wind and temperature profiles from White Sands, NM, USA
ftp://ccg.cmdl.erl.gov/pub/
  Carbon dioxide and methane observations from cooperative network
ftp://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/climate/nino/
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices
ftp://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu/
  GOES Pathfinder dataset
ftp://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/blizzard
  Data from East coast blizzard
ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/nimbus7
  Nimbus-7 TOMS ozone data (not publication quality)
ftp://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/meteor3
  Meteor-3 TOMS ozone data (not publication quality)
ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/
  East coast tidal heights and winds
ftp://downdry.atmos.colostate.edu/
  Atlantic and Northeast/North-central Pacific tropical cyclone track data
ftp://nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov/
  Cloud, SST, surface T, vegetation data
ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/cac
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices, monthly mean and anomaly fields
ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean
  Oceanographic codes and inventories (for PC)
ftp://srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov/hcdn92/
  Streamflow data from USGS
telnet://kuda.atd.ucar.edu
  Kuwait oil fire (1991) data from NCAR (login "kuda", password "science")
telnet://storm.ofps.ucar.edu
  STORM-FEST data, link to NCDC (login "storm", password "research")
gopher://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/11/climate/nino/
  CAC ENSO advisories and indices (CMAF climate monitoring)
gopher://diamond.ssec.wisc.edu/
  GOES Pathfinder dataset
gopher://diu.cms.udel.edu/
  Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data
gopher://nx1.soils.umn.edu:70/
  U. Minnesota Soil Science Department/Climatology Working Group
http://aprf.arl.mil/aprf.html
  Real-time wind and temperature profiles from White Sands, NM, USA
http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/MAS/Home.html
  Information about the MODIS Airborne Simulator multispectral scanner
http://diu.cms.udel.edu/
  Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data
http://graupel.mit.edu/Radar_Lab.html
  Information about MIT radar lab, and data archive metadata
http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/
  Climate datasets, bibliographies, ENSO forecast
http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu:80/toga_atlas/
  Climatology of the TOGA-COARE and Adjacent Regions
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/
  Alfred Wegener Institute's Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/upload/blizzard
  Data from East coast blizzard (alias of hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov)
http://www.service.uit.no/geofysisk/geofysisk.html
  Some magnetometer and meteorological data for Adventdalen, Norway
http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/ccs/about_datazoo.html
  Oceanographic data from Scripps Institute's Center for Coastal Studies
http://xtreme.gsfc.nasa.gov
  AVHRR Land Pathfinder Data Set information
wais://ridgisd.er.usgs.gov/
  NOAA_National_Environmental_Referral_Service.src


8. Software

ftp://192.67.134.72/pub/software/
  Various software, including skew-T and hodograph
ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans
  Various oceanography-related Matlab stuff
ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/
  NORAD (TLE) for NOAA sats, tide code
ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/Tides/
  Tide code (shareware) for IBM-PC compatible
ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/wiscombe/
  Mie code, discrete ordinate code, thermo code
ftp://ftp.met.ed.ac.uk/calmet/
  Software for computer-aided learning (CALMET)
ftp://ftp.erc.msstate.edu/pub/griblib.tar.Z
  GRIB decode in C
ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/
  Data analysis software
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
  Code and format description for HDF
ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/ccm
  Code for the NCAR/CGD Community Climate Model
ftp://ftpnssl.nssl.uoknor.edu/pub/skaggs
  Humidity-wind chill-heat index program, sunrise calculation program
ftp://hydro.princeton.edu/stamm/energy.budget/
  Software for insolation, energy budget
ftp://kaja.gi.alaska.edu/pub/arv/uvspec-1.01.tar.z
  Software suite for UV and visible flux calculation
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/datasets/ds111.2/software
  GRIB decode in Fortran
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/libraries/SkewT
  Skew T - log P charting software
ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean
  Oceanography-related software for PC
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/
  Air pollution model software, other?


9. Pointers to other resources

ftp://ftp.csn.org/COGS/ores.txt
  Information on other Internet resources
ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/Internet_info/
  Internet resource info
gopher://esdim1.esdim.noaa.gov/11/NOAA_systems
  Links to NOAA gopher and telnet sites
gopher://downwind.sprl.umich.edu/
  Resources for curriculum materials
http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html
  NASA system-wide WWW server (choose LARC server for more resources)
http://info.er.usgs.gov/network/index.html
  Hypertext network resources for science (assembled by USGS)
http://life.anu.edu.au:80/weather.html
  Various images & forecasts for Australia, world;  also other resources
http://sci-ed.fit.edu/wx.html
  Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources
http://walleye.forestry.umn.edu:70/0/www/rsgisinfo/rsgis.html
  Pointers to GIS and remote sensing sites
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/
  A variety of resources for the atmospheric science community
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/DataSources/MetIndex.html
  Pointers to many of these meteorological data sources
http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/climateinfo.html
  Pointers to oceanography, meteorological, general physical science resources
http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/other.html
  Pointers to weather, ocean, remote sensing sites
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html
  Oceanographic & Earth Science Data Services & Institutions
http://www.whoi.edu/html/www-servers/oceanography.html
  Oceanography WWW Servers
http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html
  Oceanography Resources on the Internet
http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/src_oceanography.html
  Oceanography Information Servers
http://zia.geog.buffalo.edu/GIAL/netgeog.html
  Hypertext resource information, mostly for geography


10. Education resources

ftp://ftp.met.ed.ac.uk/calmet/
  Software for computer-aided learning (CALMET)
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/WEATHER/weather.html
  Thematic unit for weather for grades 2-4


11. Oceanographic data

ftp://acoustics.whoi.edu/public/Matlab/oceans
  Various oceanography-related Matlab stuff
ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/
  Tide code
ftp://atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu/pub/Tides/
  Tide code (shareware) for IBM-PC compatible
ftp://ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed
  Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
ftp://server.ices.inst.dk/dist/ocean
  Oceanography-related software for PC
http://diu.cms.udel.edu/
  Ocean Information Center -- info on WOCE, TOGA/COARE, other ocean data
http://dutlru8.lr.tudelft.nl
  Sea surface altimetry atlas computed from satellite data
http://milkman.cac.psu.edu/~reh113/index.html
  Offshore weather data including water temp and wave heights
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/sio/inst/index.html
  Oceanographic & Earth Science Data Services & Institutions
http://seazar.jpl.nasa.gov/
  Info on datasets available from the JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed
  Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/climateinfo.html
  Pointers to oceanography, meteorological, general physical science resources
http://www.esdim.noaa.gov/ocean_page.html
  Oceanography Resources on the Internet
http://www.whoi.edu/html/www-servers/oceanography.html
  Oceanography WWW Servers
http://www.wrc.noaa.gov/pmelhome.html
  NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab data
http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/
  The Center for Coastal Studies at Scripps Institute


Subject:  List of sites

This section provides expanded listings of the sites in the previous
section.  Remember to set the transfer type to "binary" when retrieving
images!

140.90.5.206                        (Gopher)
  National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway.  Provides
information about data transmissions and formats.  Also connects to
esdim1.esdim.noaa.gov, which can be used to connect to the various
NOAA gopher and telnet sites.

192.67.134.72                        (FTP)
  Some NOAA and NCDC (and other NOAA subagencies?) datasets and
software, in the /pub directory.

acoustics.whoi.edu                    (FTP)
  Rich Pawlowicz's Matlab oceanography toolbox.  Includes equations
for physical properties of seawater, some geographical functions,
and plotting routines.  For use with Matlab 4.1. ([e-mail])

ageninfo.tamu.edu                    (Gopher, WWW)
  Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University server.
Contains Digital Relief Map of USA based on 30 arc second DEM data,
and other resources.  Also has MPEGS of the May 10 1994 eclipse from
GOES-7 and GOES-8.

ames.arc.nasa.gov    [128.102.18.3]            (FTP)
  The SPACE directory has been moved to explorer.arc.nasa.gov.

apollo.lsc.vsc.edu 70                    (Gopher)
(LYNDON STATE COLLEGE, VT/Department of Meteorology)
  Text products and McIdas weather images, including surface plots of the
Northeast, meteograms and skew-T plots of ALB, PWM, and BTV, US satellite
imagery, NGM forecast data, upper-air plots, and more.

aprf.arl.mil        [155.148.12.200]        (FTP, WWW)
  Real-time, hour-averaged, qc'd, surface to stratosphere profiles of wind,
temperature, and optical/radar turbulence from the Atmospheric Profiler
Research Facility, White Sands, New Mexico.  Change directory to
"/pub/profiler".  Data is available in tabular format in the subdirectory
"hourly-profiles" and in graphical format in the subdirectory
"hourly-profiles/images".
  This information is also available via WWW on this site at aprf.html.
  For further information, see the README, or e-mail to:
[e-mail] or [e-mail].

archive.afit.af.mil                    (FTP)
  NORAD "Two-line Element"(TLE) data for the NOAA satellites series
in directory "pub/space".  Also, TIDES216.zip tide calc shareware.

aristarchus.rutgers.edu                    (WWW)
  US Weather map with radar.  (Currently doesn't appear to be active.)

ashpool.micro.umn.edu                     (Gopher)
(National Weather Service Forecasts)
  Weather forecasts by state.

atlantic.ocean.fsu.edu    [128.186.3.39]            (FTP)
  East coast tidal heights and winds in "pub/Tidedata", QuickBasic
IBM-PC shareware to compute tides and currents in "pub/Tides", Luyten
& Stommel oceanographic atlas in "pub/LiveAtlas", and other related
items.  For information contact [e-mail].

athena.mit.edu                        (AFS)
(/afs/sites/athena.mit.edu/project/weather)
  Contains images from wx.atmos.uiuc.edu in various subdirectories (SATELLITE,
SURFACE, etc.).  The most recent images are flagged with the name 'latest'
so you can easily find them.  There's also an animation program.  Contact
[e-mail] for more info.

ats.orst.edu          [128.193.120.19]        (FTP)
  GOES IR and VIS images over North and Central America, plus a "floater"
image which "could be anything."  Also Oregon and US city forecasts.

babel.ho.bom.gov.au                    (Gopher)
  Satellite images of Australia, and text weather forecasts and
warnings for all states and territories.  Includes connections to
other weather resources.

boa.gsfc.nasa.gov    [128.183.93.16]            (FTP)
  Same GMS images as explorer.arc.nasa.gov;  this site should be used by
East Coast and European sites.

ccg.cmdl.erl.gov                    (FTP)
   NOAA/CMDL flask monitoring network for carbon dioxide (CO2) and
methane (CH4) atmospheric concentrations.  Data is from many monitoring
sites.  Also in-situ continuous CO2 data from CMDL observatories.
Change directory to /pub/co2 or /pub/ch4.

cdiac.esd.ornl.gov     [128.219.24.36]          (FTP)
  Contains data and information on general and technical aspects of
carbon dioxide, methane, and other trace gas emissions; the carbon cycle;
and other climate-change topics from CDIAC (the Carbon Dioxide Information
Analysis Center, address in section 3).  The data for CDIAC's "Trends 91:
A Compendium of Data on Global Change" is also available here.  (Contact
CDIAC at [e-mail] to obtain a copy of the book.)

climate.gsfc.nasa.gov    [128.183.46.16]            (FTP, WWW)
  The directory "pub/wiscombe" contains various software of interest in
several subdirectories, including Mie code by Warren Wiscombe, discrete
ordinates radiative transfer code, and atmospheric thermodynamics code.
  Also, cloud-free images of midwest flooding in directory "pub/gumley".

cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca    [142.97.22.42]            (Gopher, FTP, WWW)
(Ontario Climate Gopher)
  Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) site containing CAC (Climate
Analysis Center) ENSO advisories updated monthly (between the 10th and
15th), and CAC ENSO indices in the directory "climate/nino".  Also
has (non-current) Canadian weather maps, satellite photos (mostly Ontario
and eastern Canada), and forecasts (mostly Ontario);  hopefully, these
will be updated in the future.
  This site is also accessible via a WWW browser by opening the URL
http://cmits02.dow.on.doe.ca/, but apart from the addition of "Climate
Perspectives" (which is apparently under construction), this link
just links to the gopher service.

cspnsv.csp.it 5000                    (Telnet)
  Include the "5000" when connecting to the machine.  This runs a program,
"METEO-WINDOW" on a Cray, with a remote graphics display on your machine.
The first time, you will be asked to send mail to [e-mail] with
the numerical address of your graphics terminal (must be running X-windows).
METEO-WINDOW displays Meteosat satellite images and weather information
of general interest (in English) and of the Piedmont, Italy region (in
Italian).  For more information contact [e-mail].

diamond.ssec.wisc.edu    [144.92.108.49]            (FTP, Gopher)
  The GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) Pathfinder
Data Set was generated at SSEC using full resolution GOES imagery from the
Geostationary National Archive.  Includes 8 km products, 70 km equal area
statistics products, 24 km browse of the 8 km products, and 9 panel browse
of the 70 km statistics from May 4, 1987 through November 30, 1988
(Benchmark Period):
  For more information, contact [e-mail].

diu.cms.udel.edu    [128.175.24.6]            (WWW, Gopher)
  OCEANIC, the Ocean Information Center, contains information
about data collected for both the World Ocean Circulation Experiment
(WOCE) and the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Coupled
Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). In addition OCEANIC has a
searchable international research ship schedule database, a searchable
directory of names/addresses/e-mail of scientists involved in WOCE and
numerous links to WOCE data facilities and other oceanographic
information systems. This system is still in an evolutionary phase but
is for the most part fully functional. For more information, questions,
comments, etc. please e-mail [e-mail] or call
[phone].

downdry.atmos.colostate.edu    [129.82.107.154]    (FTP)
  Atlantic basin tropical cyclone best track data, 1886-1993.  Every 6
hour intensity and position information (files ending .atl). Also,
Northeast/North-central Pacific tropical storm and hurricane data
(1949-1993) (files ending .epc).
  Provided by [e-mail] (Chris Landsea).

downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000    [141.212.196.177]    (Telnet, Gopher)
  Include the "3000" when connecting to the machine.  This is the University
of Michigan's Weather Underground, a menu driven system which has a large
variety of information, including US and Canadian weather forecasts, ski
conditions, earthquake reports, severe weather reports, and current weather
conditions for some international cities.
  This machine is also accessible by gopher (omit the 3000 when connecting).
The same information is available, along with other educationally-oriented
information.

duat2.wtp.gtefsd.com    [131.131.7.106]            (Telnet)
  This service has become restricted to pilots only beginning October 1994.
Various weather products are available including SA, UA, and severe weather
info.  Hit '?' for help whenever you are confused by a prompt.
  DUATS can also be accessed directly by 1-800-767-9989 at 9600 baud.

early-bird.think.com    [131.239.2.1]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/weather/maps.

earthsun.umd.edu    [132.178.15.9]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "/JEI/GOES".  48-hour sequence derived from
GOES IR images is in the file "storm.zip" which was compressed with
PKZIP 2.04.  It is a 640x480 .FLC file and thus requires either running the
sequence on a UNIX box or on a DOS machine with a SVGA card that is
moderately VESA compatible with 512K RAM.  PLAY79.EXE (for DOS) is
available on the same site; xanim (for Unix) is available from
cs.orst.edu (/pub/src/printers/xanim/xanim.tar.Z) and other sites.
(For more info contact Christopher Keane, [e-mail].)

empire.cce.cornell.edu                    (Telnet)
  CLIMOD system access.  Login as "guest" and select "Weather" and
then "CLIMOD" for climate information including monthly precipitation
and temperature, Palmer Drought indices.

eosdis.larc.nasa.gov        [192.107.191.17]    (Telnet)
  The Langley Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and
distributes Radiation Budget, Cloud, Aerosol, and Tropospheric Chemistry
Data to the general science community.  Data are available via FTP, tape
and CD-ROM.  Users can use telnet to the DAAC IMS (Information Management
System) to place an order.  The IMS features a graphical user interface,
so you must have an X window or Sun OpenWindows display.  (You can contact
DAAC by telephone or email as well -- see section III.)
  Use 'ims' as the login and 'larcims' as the password.  For more
information contact Sue Sorlie ([e-mail]).

esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov    [140.90.235.10]            (Telnet, Gopher)
  Login as "NOAADIR".  Menu-driven system will let you select datasets
from various government sources according to search parameters, and will
give you contact addresses and other information on them.  You can also
get information about satellites, sensors, and research experiments.
  Can also be accessed as a gopher site;  it will present a menu with
links to the NOAA telnet and gopher sites.

explorer.arc.nasa.gov        [128.102.32.18]        (FTP)
  Visible and IR hourly GMS-4 images in gif format (neat pictures, may be
enhanced), and in hdf format (raw, intended for research), in the directory
"pub/Weather/GMS-4".  Resolution is 5 km so images are 2-3 MB in size.
The hdf files have navigation information included.  The "pub/Weather/GOES-7"
directory contains half-hourly visible and IR GOES-7 images in gif and hdf
formats; the IR data is 8 km resolution and the VIS is a very large 4 km
resolution.  Also, "pub/Weather/GOES-8" now contains GOES-8 images.
  For more information contact [e-mail]
(Milo S. Medin).
  The directory "cdrom" contains Viking, Magellan, and Voyager data, and
the directory "pub/SPACE" contains various earth-from-space images and
information.
  This site is for users "near" California;  East Coast US and European
sites should connect instead to boa.gsfc.nasa.gov, and Australian sites
should use plaza.aarnet.edu.au.  (The GOES-7 data doesn't appear to be
on these sites yet.)

faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu                    (WWW)
  Thematic unit on weather for grades 2-4.

ftp.colorado.edu    [128.138.129.2]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "pub/weather-images".  Weather radar summary map
GIFS and PICT files, surface maps, satellite images for several US cities
and regions.  Also images and other stuff for Andrew in the subdirectory
"hurricane.andrew".

ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk                    (FTP)
  Meteosat images of Europe and North Africa, and the globe, in gif
format.  See unicorn.nott.ac.uk for the same images in jpeg format.
An archive of older images may be made available in the future, perhaps
on CD-ROM;  contact [e-mail].

ftp.csn.org        [128.138.213.21]        (FTP)
  Change directory to "COGS".  A large file containing detailed information
on FTP sites, Bitnet and Usenet discussion groups, and data sources is
located in the file "ores.txt".  This file contains more information on
mapping, GIS, remote sensing, and geology, subjects which are mostly outside
the scope of this meteorology-oriented FAQ.  Mapping software and datasets
are also available in this directory.  Contact [e-mail] (Bill Thoen)
for more information.

ftp.erc.msstate.edu                    (FTP)
  GRIB decode in C in "pub/griblib.tar.Z".

ftp.gphs.vuw.ac.nz    [130.195.43.48]            (FTP)
  GMS images over New Zealand, hourly, in jpeg format, for the last week
or so.  From Victoria University of Wellington Geophysics department.
A basic WWW interface is also available by opening the URL
http://www.gphs.vuw.ac.nz/../meteorology/maps.html.

ftp.jcu.edu.au         [137.219.16.14]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "JCUMetSat". GMS-4 images updated regularly for
various Australian states, Australia as a whole, the globe, the TOGA/COARE
area, and events of interest such as cyclones. The images are in a format
designed for the package JCUMetSat on Amiga computers, but can be converted
to GIF format using the ALCHEMY software (shareware) available at this site.
(More information on the format and images can be obtained from Professor
C.J. Kikkert, [e-mail].)

ftp.met.ed.ac.uk    [129.215.168.19]        (FTP)
  Change directory to "images".  IR and visible images of Europe from
Meteosat, twice daily, in 1152 x 900 GIF format (size of Sun root window).
Also Atlantic area and African images.  The subdirectory "gifs" has smaller
3x daily images of the Nordic areas, the UK, and Europe.
  The directory "animations" contains movies in .fli and MPEG formats.
Software to uncompress "gzip" files is here too.  Info from
[e-mail] (Gordon Watson)
  The directory "calmet" contains software and documents in support of
computer-aided learning in meteorology;  it is associated with the CALMET
mailing list described in section IV of this document.  The file
"intro_to_calmet" in the "documents" subdirectory describes how to find
what's available.

ftp.met.fsu.edu        [128.186.5.56]            (FTP)
  This FTP site at Florida State University is mostly a repository for
public domain software and shareware that is useful to atmospheric
scientists.  There are also Hurricane Andrew images in the directory
"/pub/hurricane_Andrew".  The file "internet.tex" in the "pub/Internet_info"
directory contains an article by Jon Ahlquist about Internet resources for
atmospheric scientists;  this was published in the March 1993 Bulletin of
the AMS, but the on-line version will be updated from time to time.  For more
information contact [e-mail].

ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu                    (FTP)
  Code and software for HDF data format.

ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov    [192.149.148.109]        (FTP)
  Some publically accessible data and tools from NOAA's National
Geophysical Data Center.  Also, information on NGDC CD-ROM products.
More information available from [e-mail]
  This information is also available by NGDC's Gopher and WWW servers.

ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk    [134.36.22.15]                  (FTP, WWW)
Dundee University archive of NOAA AVHRR / HRPT images of Europe for the
last 15 years, with on-line access to lower resolution images (Quicklooks)
for the last six months, and a full resolution data service on request.
For information contact Alan Muir ([e-mail]).

ftp.uwp.edu        [131.210.1.4]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx.

ftp.ucar.edu                        (FTP)
  Code for CGD's Community Climate Model is in "ccm" directory.  Anyone who
acquires the CCM2 distribution package is strongly encouraged to register
their name, mailing address, and e-mail address, by sending mail to
[e-mail].

ftpnssl.nssl.uoknor.edu                    (FTP)
  Change directory to "/pub/skaggs".  Fortran program to calculate
windchill and heat index based on NWS code, and to interconvert humidity
variables based on Smithsonian Meteorological Tables.  Also code to
calculate sunrise and sunset.  Questions to [e-mail].

gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (WWW, Telnet)
  The Global Change Master Directory is a multidisciplinary on-line
information system containing descriptions of Earth and space science
data holdings available to the science community. These include data from
NASA, NOAA, NCAR, USGS, DOE (CDIAC), EPA, NSF and other  U.S. and
international agencies, universities, and research centers.
  For telnet access, login as "gcdir".

geochange.er.usgs.gov                    (WWW)
  Datasets from the the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research
Program, an operational arm of the national U.S. Global Change Research
Program (USGCRP).  Modern average global SST and polar sea ice are
available.

geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu                (Gopher)
  Forecasts for US, Canada, Caribbean;  severe weather, NMC products, tropical
observations and forecasts, marine and aviation weather;  satellite images
and analyses for US including Alaska, and Antarctica.

glis.cr.usgs.gov    [152.61.192.54]            (Telnet)
  This is a menu driven system (Global Land Information System) which allows
users to search a list of research datasets available from the EROS Data
Center at USGS, and order data if desired.  Most of the data are ecosystem
maps and elevation/depth maps.

gopher.atmos.albany.edu                    (Gopher)
  SUNY Albany Atmospheric Science Gopher.

gopher.ciesin.org        [160.39.1.202]        (Gopher)
(CIESIN-NASA-EOS Global Change Information Network)
  This gopher server has some papers on global change (not many yet).
Under the "Environmental Internet Catalog" there are resources
under various useful topics, particularly under "Earth Science",
"Ecology and the Environment", and "Weather and Meteorology".
It allows gopher access to some of the FTP and telnet resources described
in this document.  Comments should be sent to [e-mail].

gopher.ncc.go.jp                     (Gopher)
(National Cancer Center, Tokyo JAPAN)
  Select "Other-information" and then "weather".  This is a joint system
between the National Cancer Center and the Japanese Weather Association.
Files are updated every 3 hours.

gopher.ngdc.noaa.gov    [192.149.148.109]        (Gopher)
(National Geophysical Data Center)
  Some publically accessible data and tools from NOAA's National
Geophysical Data Center.  Also, information on NGDC CD-ROM products.
Connections to other data services, NOAA environmental gopher, other
gateways.  (This service is still under developement.) More information
available from [e-mail].

gopher.nodc.noaa.gov                    (Gopher)
  Appears to be a gopher connection to the same sort of thing as
esdim1.nodc.noaa.gov (datasets from various government sources).  Also
allows connections to various government agency info (NASA, NOAA, NIST,
DOE, Dept. of Interior, EPA, USDA).

gopher.ssec.wisc.edu                     (Gopher)
(Space Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison)
  This server currently offers near real-time daily browse GIF images
from the GOES satellite and 8 Antarctic browse GIF images per day.  The
Antarctic browse (funded by NSF) is a composite of 5 geostationary
and 2 polar satellites covering the area from 45 degrees south to
the South Pole.  General background information about McIDAS is also
available.  Some images from the new GOES-8 area also available.
For information contact Steve Rader ([e-mail])

gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov        [192.133.17.165]    (Gopher)
(Arkansas-Red River Forecast Center)
  This server contains forecasts of river levels and flood stages for
the mainstem rivers in the Arkansas-Red River Basin area (AR, CO, OK,
LA, MO rivers).

graupel.mit.edu                        (WWW)
   MIT Weather Radar Laboratory information under Radar_Lab.html.

grizzly.uwyo.edu                    (Gopher)
  Weather satellite images and forecast model output, meteorgrams and
some forecasts and observations for US states and regions.

hanauma.stanford.edu    [36.51.0.16]            (FTP)
  The CIA World Bank database contains coastlines, rivers and political
boundaries.  An 0.5 degree elevation dataset is also there.  A program for
decoding the CIA data can be found as "mfil" on pi1.arc.umn.edu
[137.66.130.11]  (Info from [e-mail])
  NOTE this site no longer exists.  This information *may* be moved
to oas.stanford.edu sometime in the future.  I'll try to keep an eye
on the situation.

hermes.merit.edu    [35.1.48.150]            (Telnet)
  Type um-weather at the "Which Host?" prompt and use menus.
(Connects to downwind.sprl.umich.edu)

hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov    [192.67.134.72]            (FTP, Telnet, WWW)
  Information on datasets available from NCDC (the National Climatic Data
Center) in "/pub/data/inventories".  These are inventories of the contents
of various datasets.  If you find this information useful, please send
email to [e-mail], as NCDC wants to evaluate this service.
If you wish to order data after browsing this information, contact
their customer service department at 704-271-4800.
  Some datasets are available here, including global summary of day
data in "/pub/data/globalsod/", and station and gridded temperature
anomaly data in "pub/datasets/climatedata/".
  This site is also reachable by telnet using "storm" as the login
and "research" as the password, or by using a WWW browser such as Mosaic
and opening http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov or http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov.
  Also available in the directory "/pub/upload/blizzard" is a file
"storm.txt" containing observations from the 1993 "Storm of the Century."

hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp                    (FTP)
  Change directory to "data/noaa".  NOAA quick look images of the
area around Japan are recieved and processed by Takagi Laboratory in
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo.  The images are
in Portable GrayMap file format(PGM), which can be easily converted to
other image formats using `pbmplus' utilities.  The mmddhhQL.pgm.Z files
are images (mm=month, dd=day, hh=hour) of size 512x480.

hydro.princeton.edu                    (FTP)
  Insolation calculation from Berger model and energy balance from
Pease model in directory "stamm/energy.budget".  Provided by John Stamm,
[e-mail].

jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (FTP)
  Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3 daily gridded Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
(TOMS) ozone data. Change directory to /pub/nimbus-7 or /pub/meteor3.
Read the README files in each directory and other text files...user is
warned that the data are not archive quality and not suitable for
publication. Data will eventually be archived with the GSFC DAAC.

kaja.gi.alaska.edu                    (FTP)
  The program uvspec, which calculates diffuse and direct uv and visible
fluxes (radiance) and intensities (irradiance) at any altitude, is available
in the file "/pub/arve/uvspec-1.01.tar.z".
  The wavelength range from 176.0 nm to 850.0 nm is covered with a resolution
of 1 nm. All calculated radiative quantities are in units of W/(m^2 nm).
Water Clouds may be included in the radiative transfer calculation.  A
variety of aerosols and cirrus cloud models may optionally be turned on.
  To uncompress and untar the file, use "gzip -d uvspec-1.01.tar.z" followed
by "tar -xvf uvspec-1.01.tar", or if you have GNU's tar command use
"tar -xzvf uvspec-1.01.tar.z".

kestrel.umd.edu        [129.2.110.31]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx.  Also archives gifs and
programs (not messages) from the Wxsat mailing list (see part 3 of this
FAQ) in pub/wxsat.  Also has surface analysis GIF of Alaska.  Custom
SA/radar analysis maps for areas not normally covered may be made on
request to [e-mail] (custom maps begin with 00 and were
created using U. of Illinois's WXMAP program).

kuda.atd.ucar.edu    [128.117.84.65]            (Telnet)
  Log in as "kuda" with "science" as the password.  This will put you
into a database program which will allow you to select from many types
of atmospheric measurements and supporting data from the Persian Gulf
region during the Kuwait oil well fires (1991).  Inventory includes
aircraft measurements of particulates, chemistry, radiation, and state
parameters, surface-based meteorological, air quality, and radiation
measurements, model output grids, and digital satellite images from
NOAA and DMSP polar orbiters.
  For more information, contact [e-mail], or
Julie Haggerty at 303/497-1058.

liasun3.epfl.ch                        (FTP)
  Change directory to "pub/weather".  IR and visible images of Europe
from Meteosat, in GIF format.  It appears that this site contains
the same images as ftp.met.ed.ac.uk.

life.anu.edu.au 80                    (WWW)
  Australian National University Bioinformatics server.  Connections to
many weather resources worldwide on their very nice Weather Page
(weather.html).  Comments to [e-mail].

ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics.  Includes the home page for the
MODIS Airborne Simulator.

mcidas.uncc.edu                        (Gopher)
  UNC/Charlotte Earth Science server.  MCIDAS images and many text
products from the NWS for the Southeast US, including forecasts,
climate summaries, air pollution, severe weather, precipitation.

measun.nrrc.ncsu.edu 3000                (Telnet)
  Include the "3000" when connecting to the machine.  This is a menu driven
system which has a large variety of information, including US and Canadian
weather forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, severe weather
reports, and current weather conditions for some international cities.
(Weather Underground at NCSU, similar to UM service.)

meteor.atms.purdue.edu                    (Gopher)
(Purdue University WXP Gopher)
  This gopher site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses,
upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, and plots of the results
from various NMC forecast models.  A very nice feature of this gopher is
the "plot summary" in each directory, which explains very clearly the
meteorological usefulness and interpretation of the various plots.
Questions and comments to [e-mail].

metlab1.met.fsu.edu                    (Gopher)
  This gopher site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses,
upper air analyses, soundings, and radar for the US (some Canadian plots),
and text forecasts for Florida.  The ftp site ftp.met.fsu.edu can
be accessed via this site.

nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov    [192.42.70.2]            (FTP)
  Various monthly mean data files, including ISCCP C2 cloud data, surface
temperature anomalies, grids of various variables used in the GCM II
(General Circ. Model).  Also various maps of vegetation indices, cultivation
indices, wetland ecosystems.  The file "GISS.HELP" contains an index
to the contents of this FTP area.  Contact [e-mail]
for help or more information.  (Note:  you will be asked for a password --
just enter your email address.)

ncardata.ucar.edu    [128.117.8.111]            (FTP)
  Information on datasets available from NCAR (the National Center for
Atmospheric Research), and a few small datasets.  If you would like to
order data after browsing this information, email to [e-mail].
Small datasets can be provided by FTP;  we also write various kinds of tapes.
See the README file.
  The "pub/weather" subdirectory contains Colorado weather and (in season)
ski condition reports.
  A few special datasets are located in the FTP area, and are free.  They
are described in the file "pricing".  These include a 1 deg resolution
elevation dataset, a continental outline dataset, and a list of all WMO
stations with latitude, longitude, and elevation.
  This ftp area can also be accessed with a nifty hypertext interface
at http://www.ucar.edu/dss

nevado.srcc.lsu.edu                    (Telnet, Gopher)
  The Southern Regional Climate Center operates a gopher and telnet
site, with data mostly for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.  There is some other US data available
through the telnet site (login srcc).

nic.fb4.noaa.gov                    (FTP)
  Selected monthly mean and anomaly fields [from the Climate Diagnostic Data
Base (CDDB)] are in the directory "/pub/cac/cddb";  tropical indices are in
the subdirectory "indice" within that directory.  Text for the Climate
Diagnostics Bulletin and ENSO Advisory is available in the directory
"/pub/cac/nino".  Also contains information about, and code to read, NMC
data formats such as GRIB.

noaacdc.colorado.edu                    (WWW)
  The Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC), previously the Climate Research
Division of the ERL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL),
conducts diagnostic studies of climate variability on time scales of months
to centuries.  CDC climatological data is archived in netCDF format.
This site gives access to metadata (information about these datasets) which
can be searched by various keywords;  actual data must be ordered
from CAC by email or fill-in forms.

nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (FTP or Telnet)
  Telnet:  The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) On-Line Data and
Information Service (NODIS) is a menu-driven interactive system which provides
information on services and data supported by NSSDC.  Login as NSSDC.  Some
topics:  Nimbus-7 GRID TOMS Data, Geophysical Models, Standards and
Technology Information System.
  FTP: some information and actual data is also available via anonymous FTP.
For more information contact [e-mail].

nx1.soils.umn.edu    [128.101.77.165]        (Gopher)
(MN Climatology Working Group)
  This gopher directory contains lots of files with climate data for
Minnesota.  Comments and questions to [e-mail].

owl.nstn.ns.ca                        (Gopher)
  Canadian site for Canadian forecasts.

photo1.si.edu        [160.111.16.2]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "/More.Smithsonian.Stuff/nasm.planetarium" (case
sensitive!).  The subdirectory "weather.gif" has 640 X 480 X 256 GIF89a
format (some older files in GIF87a) images from NOAA and Meteor polar
orbiting weather satellites, maybe others.  Images will remain here for
a few weeks -- some of the more exceptional images will be placed in a
longer-term archive under the subdirectory "/weather.archive".
  Files will be named sssdddd*.gif where sss is the spacecraft (e.g. N11=
NOAA-11, M33=Meteor 3-3), dddd is the date, and * is a descriptor (see
the readme information).
  HRPT visible and IR images of the recent California fires are available
in the subdirectory "calif.disaster".  The f1----.gif series is the Laguna
fire, f2----.gif series is the Malibu fire, and the f3----.gif series is
the Northridge fire.
  For more information, contact [e-mail] (Geoff Chester).

plaza.aarnet.edu.au    [139.130.4.6]            (FTP)
  Same GMS images as explorer.arc.nasa.gov, in the "weather" directory;
this site should be used by Pacific sites only.

quake.think.com     [192.31.181.1]            (WAIS)
(Weather.src) Service: 210  Database: weather
  Currently you'll get the best results by asking this server for 'weather'.
The returned list of files should include this file, as well as the day's
satellite weather maps.  You might want to refine your search by including
"gif" if you'd rather get the maps, or "txt" if you want the textual
weather forecasts.  You can try by city name, too.  Comments to
[e-mail].

rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu                (WWW)
  This is the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University's
Climate Group's server.  The "Data Library" contains various climatologies
for the ocean and atmosphere, and topographic data, along with a nice
interactive system for selection and display of data.

rainbow.physics.utoronto.ca                (FTP)
  NOAA-11/12 mosaic GIF images of North America derived from HRPT (High
Resolution Picture Transmission) data stream.  Change directory
to "/pub/sat_images".
  The images are 1280 x 1024 mosaics of successive passes of either
NOAA-11 or NOAA-12 and cover an area from 40 deg W to 130 deg W and from
70 deg N to 20 deg N. At present, only images derived from Channel 4 are
being posted. Four mosaics will be posted daily, named mmmdd_noaa##.TT.gif
where ## is the satellite number (11 or 12) and TT is the time (am or pm).
Images will remain accessible for two days.
  To assist in the interpretation of the images, coastlines, rivers and
lakes have been superimposed.  The resolution of the images has been reduced
to approximately 4 km, but full resolution images of particular areas
of interest may be available upon request.
  For information contact [e-mail] (Professor
G.W.K. Moore).

ridgisd.er.usgs.gov     [130.11.48.107]            (WAIS)
(DOE_Climate_Data.src)
Service: 210  Database: /usr/opt/wais/db/DOE_Climate_Data
(NOAA_National_Environmental_Referral_Service.src)
Service: 210  Database: /usr/opt/wais/db/nedres
  Contains information about various climate data sets.  The maintainer
is [e-mail].

sanddunes.scd.ucar.edu                    (Telnet)
  AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) images from 1989 through
7 Jan 1992 cover CO, WY, KS, NE, and NM, as well as parts of AZ, UT, OK,
and TX.  Since 7 Jan 1992, coverage includes these plus CA, OR, NV, WA,
and MT, to 1000 km off Pacific coast.  Total coverage of US for 1989-present
will be available soon.  West coast data from 1980-1985 will be available
some time this year.
  Images are 1024 lines x 1024 elements before 7 Jan 1992, 2560 lines x
1024 elements after.  Images are 1 km resolution and 8-bit format.
  Contact Tim Kelley by email [e-mail] or telephone
303/497-1221 for login, password, and manual.  Service is free to Internet
users and is funded by NASA.

santa.asf.alaska.edu    [192.73.49.10]            (Telnet)
  This is the ASF:  The Alaska SAR Facility, one of NASA Distributed Active
Archive Centers (DAACs).  The ASF DAAC specializes in acquiring, processing
and distributing data from polar-orbiting SAR satellites.  ERS-1 SAR Level
0, Level 1 and Level 2 data are available from September 1991 to current.
Coverage within a 3000 km radius circle, centered on Fairbanks, at
resolutions ranging from ~10 km (for complex) to ~200 km (for low resolution).
JERS-1 SAR Level 0 and Level 1 data are available from May 1992 to current.
Coverage within a 2593 km radius circle, centered on Fairbanks, at resolutions
ranging from ~10 km to ~200 km.  Both digital and photographic media are
supported for distribution.
  The ASF Information Management System provides information and catalog access
to supported data sets at ASF through a guest account.  The data holdings at
ASF are restricted to flight agency approved users.  Login with user name
ACSUSER and password ALASKASAR.
  For more information contact [e-mail].

satftp.soest.hawaii.edu    [128.171.154.29]          (FTP, WWW)
  Sea-Surface-Temperature data (near-real-time) in the directory
"pub/avhrr/images".  AVHRR images within the radius of reception of the
university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to 45 N and 125 W to 165 E,
as well as other stations in the continental US.  The processed images are
available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-11 and NOAA-12 passages. GMS-4
images of the full GMS coverage area and over the TOGA-COARE area are
available in /pub/GMS.
  Data are available in TDF format, PostScript, and GIF format, labelled by
satellite name (n11/n12/g4) and time.
  Also see "pub/spectactular" directory for images of Hurricane Fernanda.
This site concentrates on the generation of higher level products,
calibrated in scientific units and registered, that can be used for
time series analysis without having to deal with satellite geometries.
  This site is also accessible via WWW at http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu.
  More info available from [e-mail].

sci-ed.fit.edu                        (WWW)
  Pointers to weather related sites in wx.html.

seazar.jpl.nasa.gov                    (FTP, WWW)
  This site contains information about data products available from the
JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC).
Products available from PO.DAAC are largely satellite derived, and include:
sea-surface height, surface-wind vector (and sigma-nought), surface-wind
speed, surface-wind stress vector, integrated water vapor, atmospheric
liquid water, sea-surface temperature, sea-ice extent and concentration,
heat flux, and in-situ data as it pertains to satellite data.
  Also available by ftp at ftppodaac.jpl.nasa.gov.

server.ices.inst.dk                    (FTP)
  International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) server
has several PC oceanographic products available in the "dist/ocean"
directory, including a list of country codes and ship codes, and
inventories of data profiles and research activities.  For more information
contact [e-mail].

shelley.ca.uky.edu                    (Gopher, Telnet)
  University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Gopher server.
US Zone forecasts by state, plus detailed forecasts and observations
for Kentucky.  Also includes river conditions for central US states
under the NWS products menu.
  For telnet access, log in as "kyag".

snow.nohrsc.nws.gov     [192.46.108.1]          (FTP)
  Various snow-related images in GIF format.  US snow cover map updated
weekly.  JPEG of current AVHRR images.
  Also included are JPEG images of the east coast during the March 1993
blizzard, and of the midwest during the July 1993 flood.
  See www.nohrsc.nws.gov for WWW access.
  Contact [e-mail] (Tim Szeliga) for more info.

spectrum.xerox.com    [192.70.225.78]            (FTP)
  Various USGS data in subdirectories under the directory "pub/map".

srv1rvares.er.usgs.gov    [130.11.51.209]            (FTP)
  USGS streamflow data from the HCDN data set, 1874-1988 CD-ROM (see
CD-ROM section) by Slack et al in the directory "hcdn92".

sseop.jsc.nasa.gov    [146.154.11.34]            (FTP)
  Many pictures taken from the space shuttle.  Files are in a 512x512
format as red, green, and blue bitmaps. Image files are binary format,
and have .DAT as an extension.

starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  Access to various http (WWW) and telnet catalogs of data from
past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations,
and laboratory measurements.

storm.ofps.ucar.edu    [128.117.90.53]            (Telnet)
  Hourly and 5-minute composite surface observations, and composite
rawinsonde soundings, from STORM-FEST.  Log in as "storm" with
the password "research" to access a menu-driven system which will allow
you to search for the data you want.  You can also connect to the
NCDC site hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov through these menus.
(Contact Mark Bradford, [e-mail] if you have questions.)

sumex-aim.stanford.edu                    (FTP)
  Quicktime (for Macintosh) movie of "Blizzard of 93" in the file
/pub/info-mac/art/qt/blizzard-of-93.hqx.  (Binhexed file.)

swami.tamu.edu                        (Gopher, WWW)
  Agricultural weather for Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico;  Palmer drought
indices, statistics, weather summaries. Agricultural weather advisories
for much of southern US.

thunder.atms.purdue.edu                    (WWW)
(Purdue University WXP Web site)
  This site includes satellite images, surface plots and analyses,
upper air plots and analyses, soundings, radar, and plots of the results
from various NMC forecast models.  The text on each page explains very
clearly the meteorological usefulness and interpretation of the various
plots.  Questions and comments to [e-mail].

thunder.met.fsu.edu                     (WWW, Telnet)
  National Weather Service at Tallahassee Web page is available
on this machine at http://thunder.met.fsu.edu/~nws.
  A weather underground is also available from this machine by telnet
to port 3000.

tortel.dcc.uchile.cl    [146.83.4.40]            (Gopher, Telnet)
(Universidad de Chile)
  Weather forecasts for Chile, in Spanish.  Choose the menu items "Servicios
Miscelaneos", then "Pronosticos Meteorologicos", and then "Informe Diario
Direccion Meteorologica de Chile".  For telnet access, log in as "gopher"
(no password) and continue as above.

unicorn.nott.ac.uk                    (FTP)
  Meteosat images of Europe and North Africa, and the globe, in jpeg
format.  See ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk for the same images in gif format.
An archive of older images may be made available in the future, perhaps
on CD-ROM;  contact [e-mail].

unidata.ucar.edu    [128.117.140.3]            (Gopher, FTP)
  FTP:  Change directory to "images". Weather radar summary map GIFS,
surface maps for various places, a few soundings on skew-t log-p diagrams,
GOES Hugo images (in subdirectory "images/hugo").  Surface maps include
Europe and China.

uriacc.uri.edu        [131.128.1.1]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "davet.195".  Images of the northeast US in GIF format
from the afternoon passes of NOAA-11.  (Provided by Dave Tetreault,
[e-mail].)

vicbeta.vic.bom.gov.au 55555    [134.178.130.2]        (Telnet)
  Include the 55555 when connecting to the machine.  Australian weather
observations and forecasts via a menu-driven system.

vmd.cso.uiuc.edu     [128.174.5.98]            (FTP)
  Information on WX-TALK and other mailing lists, companies that hire
meteorologists, radio frequencies used to broadcast hurricane information,
satellite reception, and other subjects.  The images which used to be
here are no longer here, but are available at other sites (see topic
index).

vortex.weather.brockport.edu 3000            (Telnet, gopher)
  Another weather underground.  Other information available by gopher
to the same site (omit the 3000).

wais.cic.net        [192.131.22.3]            (WAIS)
(midwest-weather.src) Service: 210  Database:  midwest-weather
  National Weather Service forecasts for midwest U.S. states, updated
hourly from the `gopher' weather server at the U of Minnesota by [e-mail].

walleye.forestry.umn.edu                (WWW)
  University of Minnesota Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) server.  Lots
of links to GIS resources, including job openings, and remote-sensing/
GIS data.  Includes many USGS datasets, landuse, wetlands, digital
elevation, etc.

web.nexor.co.uk                        (WWW)
  Links to various European satellite photos (/places/satelite.html).

wilbur.stanford.edu    [36.14.0.30]            (FTP)
  Change directory to "pub/weathergifs".  IR and visible images of Europe
from Meteosat, in GIF format.  It appears that this site contains
the same images as ftp.met.ed.ac.uk.  Also has satellite images of
US.

wind.atmos.uah.edu 3000    [146.229.8.2]            (Telnet)
  Include the 3000 when connecting to the machine.  This is the University
of Alabama at Huntsville's Weather Underground, a menu-driven system
which has forecasts, climate data, and current observations for US cities,
severe (US) weather, ski reports, and a "heating and cooling degree database".
This Weather Underground also includes WXP so that X-windows users can
have available weather maps displayed on their terminals.  Comments
and suggestions to [e-mail].

wmaps.aoc.nrao.edu    [146.88.1.103]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/wx.

wuarchive.wustl.edu    [128.252.135.4]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in multimedia/images/wx.

www.acm.uiuc.edu                    (WWW)
  Rob's Multimedia Lab has a weather page at weather.html.  Movies of
hurricane Emily, California fires images, local (mid-Atlantic) weather
from other sites.

www.atmos.uiuc.edu                    (WWW)
  The Daily Planet from the University of Illinois.  Contains links
to the U of I Weather Machine (gopher) as well as direct links to
many of the same images: satellite images, surface and upper air,
forecast model output, etc.  This server also includes a very nice
and comprehensive collection of MPEG movies based on the still images.
They are updated hourly and they cover various time durations of up
to over two days.
  Other available information includes a collection of lists of other
weather servers and sources of weather data, atmospheric sciences community
info, local information about the U of I atmospheric sciences department,
and some online hypermedia instructional modules for atmospheric sciences.
  The administrative contact e-mail address for the server is:
[e-mail]

www.jpl.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  JPL site.  From the home page, choose "Recent News from JPL", or
go directly to sircxsar.html for images from the Spaceborne Imaging
Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), which flew on
space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-59 April 9-20, 1994.  SIR-C/X-SAR
uses a highly sophisticated imaging radar to capture images of Earth that
are useful to scientists across a great range of disciplines. The instrument
is scheduled for a second flight on shuttle mission STS-68 in August 1994.

www.met.fu-berlin.de                    (WWW)
  Free University of Berlin Institute for Meteorology.  Information is
available in German or English.  Includes local current weather,
latest Meteosat photo, list of upcoming conferences, neatly-formatted
and organized list of these weather resources.  Best place to begin
for English-speakers is http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/english/Wetter/index.html.

www.ngdc.noaa.gov    [192.149.148.109]        (WWW, Gopher, FTP)
  This site serves information about NOAA's National Geophysical Data
Center. There are links to many NOAA data archives, including
the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), Solar-Terrestrial Data
from the World Data Center exchange program, Marine Geological & Geophysical
Data, Solid Earth Geophysical Data, and Paleoclimatology Data.
This site can also be accessed using Gopher or FTP.

www.nohrsc.nws.gov                    (WWW)
  The National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, a branch of
the National Weather Service and NOAA, is assigned to measure snow cover
in the US & Canada, using satellite data, ground observations, airborne
sensors and a lot of intensive hydrologic modeling.
  This site provides access to the NOHRSC ftp area which has various snow-
related images in GIF format,  US snow cover map updated weekly,  JPEG of
current AVHRR images, JPEG images of the east coast during the March 1993
blizzard, and of the midwest during the July 1993 flood.

www.rsmas.miami.edu                    (WWW)
  The Remote Sensing Group in the Division of Meteorology and Physical
Oceanography of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is
actively engaged in satellite remote sensing of the earth's oceans. Low
resolution visible and infrared imagery is collected daily from the NOAA
sun-synchronous polar orbiting satellites. Low resolution observations
(4 km.) are collected globally while high resolution observations (1 km.)
are collected from selected areas of research interest around the globe.
  Home page is at home.html, images at images.html.

www.sat.dundee.ac.uk see ftp.sat.dundee.ac.uk

www.sel.bldrdoc.gov                    (WWW)
  NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory (SEL) server has information about
the Sun and the environment between the Sun and the Earth, including
"space weather" and solar images.

www.service.uit.no
  Some meteorological and magnetometer data for Adventdalen, Norway,
is available from http://www.service.uit.no/geofysisk/geofysisk.html.

www.ucar.edu                        (WWW)
  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) http server. Select
"Research Data Archives" to access the variety of data archives available;
also contains other information about NCAR.  Questions should be
sent to [e-mail].

www.mit.edu 8001                    (WWW)
  Neat map interface to (text) weather reports and forecasts.   Map shows
current conditions.  Appears to be western US only.

www.wrc.noaa.gov                    (WWW)
  NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab offers "live browsing access" to the
extensive data base of gridded climatological data managed by PMEL's Thermal
Modeling and Analysis Project (TMAP).  Datasets available are COADS and
Levitus climatologies.  A user can select a variable and a plot type,
and quickly obtain a fully documented contour plot.  Images are generated
on the fly.

www-ccs.ucsd.edu                    (WWW)
  Scripps Institute of Oceanography Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) WWW
site.  Includes information about the CCS, a data archive ("The Data
Zoo"), and pointers to other oceanographic information.

wwwdaac.msfc.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  The MSFC DAAC is known as the HYDROLOGIC CYCLE DAAC because their data
holdings are primarily aimed at researchers investigating facets of the
hydrologic cycle.  At present, holdings are primarily limited to the
atmospheric component of the cycle.
  Available data includes SSM/I NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Products, TOVS
NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Path C1 Products, SSM/I Antenna Temperatures and
Sensor Counts, and Climatological Summaries.  Contact [e-mail]
for more information.

wx.atmos.uiuc.edu    [128.174.80.10]            (Gopher)
(UofI Weather Machine)
  Forecasts, images, surface and upper-air weather, local (Illinois) weather,
and various useful documents, including GRIB and ON84 format descriptions,
station lists, graphics information, etc. Questions, comments, and requests
for changes should be sent to [e-mail].

wx.research.att.com    [192.20.225.3]            (FTP)
  Mirror site for vmd.cso.uiuc.edu in wx directory.

xtreme.gsfc.nasa.gov                    (WWW)
  This WWW site is a reference source for data set users, as well as those
who would like to find our more about the AVHRR Land Pathfinder Data Set.
The WWW site includes tools for manipulating the data.  For more information
contact [e-mail].

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Subject:  How to use the data retrieval methods

  This section only describes FTP and telnet in any detail;  for other
methods, FTP sites are given, so you can get information on them yourself.

1) How to use FTP
2) How to use telnet
3) Gopher information
4) Wais information
5) WWW information

1. How to use FTP

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows transfer of files between two computers
which are on the Internet.  To access the FTP areas listed here, at your
system prompt type "ftp" followed by the name of the desired system.  For
example, to access ncardata.ucar.edu you'd type

    ftp ncardata.ucar.edu

Use "anonymous" as your login and your email address as the password (if
requested).

[Note: quotes ("like this") are used to set off names of directories and
files, or commands you'd type, and are not part of these names.]

Not all FTP systems accept the same commands, but here's a list of the
most useful:

    ls      list files in the current directory.
    cd      change directory, e.g. "cd wx" changes to the wx directory.
    binary  sets binary mode
    ascii   sets ascii mode (the default).  Use for retrieving text.
    get     retrieves a file, e.g. "get readme" gets a file called readme.
    bye     exits FTP.

If you can't seem to connect to the site, check to see if it is a telnet
site.  If it is, follow the instructions in the following section instead.

If you can't FTP from your site, use one of the following ftp-by-mail servers:

    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]
    [e-mail]

Send an e-mail message to the closest address, with the lines:

    reply [e-mail]     <- with your email address
    connect ncardata.ucar.edu         <- for example
    cd datasets/ds111.2/software
    get access_sun.f
    quit

For complete instructions, send a one-line message reading "help" to the
server.  Please don't ask me for help!

2. How to use telnet

Type "telnet" followed by the name or IP number of the desired system.  These
publicly accessible systems generally allow you to log in but put you in
a restricted shell, from which only a certain menu of commands is available.
The description for the site will include the login to use.

If you can't seem to connect to the site, re-check its description in the
document; if it's an FTP site, follow the instructions in the previous
section instead.

3. Gopher information

Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq.

4. Wais information

Available by ftp at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/wais-faq/getting-started.

5. WWW information

Available by ftp at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq.
WWW is so easy to use that you might as well just hop in and try it, so
ask your sysadmin if you have a WWW browser such as NCSA Mosaic.
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