Selected Weather and Climate Information on the WWWeb

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Table of Contents

California and Nevada

• National Weather Service Offices (Federal Government)
  • Eureka
  • Sacramento
  • Reno, NV
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Hanford (San Joaquin Valley)
  • Los Angeles/Oxnard
  • San Diego
  • California-Nevada River Forecast Center
• California Data Exchange Center
  (State of California)
• California Department of Water Resources
  (State of California)
• California Irrigation Management Information System
  (California Department of Water Resources and University of California, Davis)
• Golden Gate Weather Services Weather Links
  (Includes original, though not peer-reviewed, research by Jan Null, consulting meteorologist, Golden Gate Weather Services)

Western U.S.

• National Weather Service Forecast Offices (list of links)
• Western Regional Climate Center
  (Federal and Nevada State Governments)
• National Weather Service Office, Seattle/Tacoma, WA
  (Federal Government)
• Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Monterey, CA: Satellite Meteorology
  (Federal Government)
• Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
• Oregon Climate Service Oregon State University
• Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah
• Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
• Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
• Alaska Climate Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
• Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii
• iwindsurf.com
  (Privately organized reports on wind surfing conditions)

National, International, and Other Meteorological Organizations

• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Services
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (home page)
• The National Weather Service (NWS)
  (Weather forecasts and related services for the public. Administered by NOAA.)
• World Weather Information Service (WMO)
• National Weather Service Forecast Offices (list of links)
• National Hurricane Center (NHC)
  (Forecasts and research on hurricanes. Administered by NOAA.)
• National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
  (Research on severe thunderstorms and tornados. Administered by NOAA.)
• Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
  (Research and prediction of climate and climate change. Administered by NOAA.)
• NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
  (Preserves, monitors, assesses, and provides public access to the Nation's climate and historical weather data and information.)
  • Climate.gov
    (Provides climate and weather information, including both data and current science.)
  • Weather.gov
    (Weather forecasts from the National Weather Service.)
  • Drought.gov: U.S. Drought Portal
    (The National Integrated Drought Information System [NIDIS], "advancing drought science and preparedness across the nation".)
  • GlobalChange.gov: The U.S. Global Change Research Program
    (A federal program mandated by Congress to coordinate Federal research and investments in understanding the forces shaping the global environment, both human and natural, and their impacts on society.)
• Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)
  (Research on satellite technology and satellite image interpretation. University of Wisconsin.)
• Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
  (Research on seasonal, interannual, and decadal climate fluctuations. Private institute.)
• American Meteorological Society
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  (United Nations. Organizes international cooperation in meteorology.)

Climate

• National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
  (Formerly the National Climatic Data Center [NCDC]. Maintains climate records. Administered by NOAA.)
• National Centers for Environmental Information: U.S. Climate at a Glance
  (Administered by NOAA)
• Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
  (Research and prediction of climate and climate change. Administered by NOAA.)
• NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division)
  (Research on weather, water, and climate extremes, and their related impacts)
• Regional Climate Centers
  (Joint federal [NOAAA] and state governments)
  • Western Regional Climate Center
    (Federal and Nevada state governments)
  • California-Nevada Climate Applications Program (CNCAP)
    (University of California, San Diego)
  • Alaska Climate Research Center
    (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
• Weatherbase
  (Monthly-average climate data. Commercial site.)
• WorldClimate
  (Monthly-average climate data. Privately maintained site.)
• Comparative Climate Data--U.S.
  (Monthly data for about 300 sites; Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services)
• California Climate Archive
  (Western Regional Climate Data Center)
• Northern California Climate Summaries
  (Western Regional Climate Center)
• Southern California Climate Summaries
  (Western Regional Climate Center)
• California Irrigation Management Information System
  (Data from 100+ stations in California, including evapotranspiration data. California Department of Water Resources and University of California, Davis)
• San Francisco Bay Area Climate and Weather
  (Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services)
• Climate of San Francisco
  (Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services)
• San Jose, CA Climate Page
  (Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services)

El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and La Niña

• Comprehensive Climatology of ENSO Events and California Precipitation
  (Analysis of the effect of past El Niños and La Niñas on precipitation in California, by Jan Null, consulting meteorologist and former forecaster for the NWS Monterey Forecast Office.)
• NOAA's El Niña Page
  (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration)
• El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion
  (NOAA's Climate Prediction Center)
• El Niño Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information Related to El Niño
  (El Niño definition, historical record, current data, and forecasts, by NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab in Seattle.)
• El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Information
  (El Niño information, from NOAA's Earth System Research Labortory, Physical Sciences Division.)
• El Niño and the Western U.S., Alaska and Hawaii
  (Links to information about El Niño, from the NWS's Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, NV.)
• "El Niño"
  (National Geographic Resource Library, encyclopedia entry, with links to other sources of information)

Tropical Meteorology and Hurricanes

• National Hurricane Center (NHC) and Central Pacific Hurricane Center
  (Forecasting and research on hurricanes. Administered by NOAA.)
• Hurricane Forecasts
  (offered by Colorado State University)
• Tropical Cyclone Page
  (Satellite images, radar images, storm tracks, etc., for current and historical tropical cyclones. Offered by the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA.)
• Frequently Asked Questions about Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones
  (Offered by Dr. Christopher Landsea of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, FL.)