1-3: Atmospheric Structure and Circulation

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• African Droughts Increase Dust in the Caribbean
  
  
• The Tropopause
  
  
• Intercontinenetal Transport of Dust and Pathogens
  
  

Websites

• Improved weather and hurricane forecasts
  
  
• Extreme Weather and Climate Events
  
  
• Global Summary of the Day, 6 to 8 week lag on statistics, graphics included. (courtesy of National Climatic Data Center)
  
  
• Ozone Science: A Canadian Perspective
  
  
• Monthly Mean Temperatures Animation (courtesy of Sustainable Development Dimensions)
  
  
• National Climatic Data Center Best of the Rest - Weather Links
  
  
• The National Drought Mitigation Center
  
  
• Societal Aspects of Weather
  
  
• Meteorology 411 Homepage
  
  
• Graph of the tilt of the Earth's axis
  
  

Additional References

• Baldwin, M. P., D. W. J. Thompson, E. F. Shuckburgh, W.A. Norton, and N. P. Gillett, 2003: Weather from the stratosphere? Science, 301, 317-3-9
  
  
• Black, D., 2002: The rains may be a-coming. Science, 297, 528-529.
  
  
• Anderson, D. M., J.T. Overpeck, and A.K. Gupta, 2002: Increase in the Asian Southwest Monsoon during the past four centuries. Science, 297, 596-599.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate Change 1995. The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 59-64.
  
  
• Hidore, John J. and John E. Oliver, 1993: Climatology: An Atmospheric Science. Macmillan Publishing Co., NY. 423 pp.
  
  
• Lutgens, Frederick K., and Edward J. Tarbuck. 1986: The Atmosphere. An Introduction to Meteorology. Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NY. 492 pp.
  
  

Weather Servers

• The Daily Planet
  
  
• Storm Chaser Homepage
  
  
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign module for the "beginning meteorologist"
  
  
• University of Michigan Underground
  
  
• WeatherNet