On Sep 15, 8:00*pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/meteorology/storms-faq/part1/
A list of links from part 2 most of the ones I tried were dud or not
stuff I liked much. But then the list is over 10 years old.
FAQ: HURRICANES, TYPHOONS AND TROPICAL CYCLONES (Part 2 of 2)
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From:
(Chris Landsea)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology, sci.environment
Subject: FAQ: HURRICANES, TYPHOONS AND TROPICAL CYCLONES (Part 2 of 2)
Date: 18 Jul 1997 20:43:38 GMT
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FAQ: HURRICANES, TYPHOONS, AND TROPICAL CYCLONES
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Part II:
By Christopher W. Landsea
NOAA AOML/Hurricane Research Division
4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida 33149
18 July, 1997
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Here are some reliable http sites (provided by
Gary Gray):
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu:70/1/Tropical (good
source)
It may have been once. I'm not even sure what Gopher was, a search
engine I think. It was on its last legs when I was first online about
8 years back.
But another search got me this page which is a good one:
http://stormcarib.com/guide.htm
http://banzai.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/tropical.html
(everything)
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html (most info
available)
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/us/hurricane.html (full advisory
list)
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/Trop...tropical.shtml
(map)
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics.html (new stuff... looks
great)
http://www.atms.unca.edu/%7Efarr/hurricane96.html (simple &
excellent)
http://www.ih2000.net/ira/bmt-wth.htm (strike probs & track
maps)
http://www.weather.brockport.edu/cgi-bin/hurricane (simple
search)
http://www.npmocw.navy.mil/npmocw/prods/jtwc.html (JTWC
forecasts)
http://www.gobeach.com/hurr.htm (forecasts & conditions of
Caribbean)
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Subject: I2) Where can I get real-time tropical weather analyses and
forecast fields?
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu:70/1/Tropical (lots of
info)
http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/fiorino/wxmap/wx.htm (Mike Fiorino's
site)
http://banzai.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/tropical.html (most
products)
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html (most info
available)
http://grads.iges.org/pix/trop.00hr.html (nice tropical
graphics)
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/Trop...tropical.shtml
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ (most products)
http://www.atms.unca.edu/%7Efarr/hurricane96.html (many
products)
http://www.flinet.com/%7reiter/ (links to tropical weather
summary)
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html (several
products)
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/Marine.htm (some unique maps)
http://www.sims.net/links/hurricane.html (good set of info)
http://www.utmb.edu/hurricane.html (basic info)
http://ws321.uncc.edu/data/wxp/aviation/trop (excellent!)
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Subject: I3) Where can I get real-time ship and buoy data?
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
http://banzai.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/tropical.html (great
source)
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html (good set of
data)
http://www.nws.fsu.edu/buoy (great graphic buoy/cman source)
http://www.bbsr.edu/weather (nice ship, bouy, and wave data)
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html (Gulf & W
Atlantic)
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Subject: I4) Where can I get real-time sea surface temperature data?
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu:70/19/...r.d/.molly.gif
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html (several
products)
http://ssec.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst/latest_sst.gif (global SST
image)
http://www.bbsr.edu/weather (decent AVHRR SST maps)
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html (analysis &
anomaly)
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/Marine.htm (a few different "styles")
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/images.html (several good SST maps)
http://www.seaspace.com/images/goes8.gif (global SST image)
http://www.sims.net/links/hurricane.html (global SST image)
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Subject: I5) Where can I get real-time satellite pictures?
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
http://oldthunder.ssec.wisc.edu/ (Chris Velden's site)
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat_products.html (Jeff Hawkins'
site)
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu...ergrafx/satpix
http://banzai.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/tropical.html (many
good pix)
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat_products.shtml (GOES 8 & 9,
specials)
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html (a few good
pix)
http://clunix.cl.msu.edu:80/weather/ (lots of sat pix)
http://grads.iges.org/listing/wx.html (nice GOES-8/9 full disk
images)
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/Trop...tropical.shtml
(many pix have bad
links)
http://www.atms.unca.edu/%7Efarr/hurricane96.html (the basics)
http://www.bbsr.edu/weather (Bermudocentric & other sat pix)
http://www.dibbs.net/%7Ejadkins/storm.html (Atlantic)
http://www.flinet.com/%7reiter (GOES-8 US & Atlantic & FL)
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html (tropics)
http://www.sims.net/links/hurricane.html (several decent sat
pix)
http://www.t-e.k12.pa.us/~dbaron/satellite/ (tons of sat pix)
http://www.cira.colostate.edu (GOES-8 & 9, and historical)
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Subject: I6) Where can I get real-time radar data?
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
http://banzai.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/tropical.html (nice
source)
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html (full set of
rad pix)
(Mid-Atlantic sites)
http://www.atms.unca.edu/%7Efarr/hurricane96.html (decent
selection)
http://www.flinet.com/%7reiter (Miami radar)
http://www.gulf.net/%7Egbamonte/min_wet.htm (Mobile, AL radar)
http://www.ih2000.net/ira/bmt-wth.htm (coastal TX radar only)
http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/storm.html (New Orleans radar)
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Subject: I7) Where can I get real-time hurricane aircraft
reconnaissance
data?
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
http://www.hurricanehunters.com (info from the source)
gopher://geograf1.sbs.ohio-state.edu:70/1/Tropical (good recon
lists)
http://banzai.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/tropical.html (decent
source)
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ (excellent site)
http://ws321.uncc.edu/data/tropical (simple recon report
grabber)
http://www.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/utility/Hurricane (decoding
info)
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html (TCPOD & recon
reports)
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Subject: I8) Where can I get real-time tropical cyclone motion and
intensity model forecasts?
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
http://www.fnoc.navy.mil/noraps.html ("normal" model, but good
for TS)
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/Marine.htm (not models, but some
forecasts)
http://www.meto.govt.uk/sec2/sec2cyc...clone.html(old
storms)
http://www.ugems.psu.edu/~owens/trantech/ (Gary. Gray's model)
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.ed...www/earth.html
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Subject: I9) Where can I get tropical cyclone preparedness
information?
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
http://www.casualty.com/hcane.html (all the basic preparedness
info)
http://www.co.alachua.fl.us/%7Eacem/oemtest.html (Alachua Co.,
FL)
http://www.fema.gov/fema/trop.html (FEMA)
http://www.flinet.com/%7reiter (several links)
http://www.gulf.net/%7Egbamonte/min_wet.htm (general
preparedness)
http://www.insiders.com/boca/flweathe.htm (basic preparedness
info)
http://www.oo.com/%7Efrank/disaster.html (disaster
preparedness)
http://www.storm97.com (lots of preparedness info)
http://www.sims.net/links/hurricane.html (great preparedness
info)
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Subject: J1) Where can I get historical data of tropical cyclones?
THE BEVEN REPORTS
For unofficial near-real time summaries of global tropical
cyclone
activity, Jack Beven of the USA National Hurricane Center/Tropical
Prediction Center produces these on a weekly basis and has done so for
over three years. Text copies of past weekly summaries can be
retrieved
via the Web at: http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu/iww/tropics. If
you'd
like to obtain these near-real time summaries directly, simply email
Jack at:
and ask him to start sending you the
summaries. Note however that these are already posted on
sci.geo.meteorology and WX-TALK.
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FREE DATA
ftp hrd-type42.nhc.noaa.gov [140.90.176.206]
Atlantic basin tropical storm and hurricane best track data,
1886-1996.
Every 6 hour intensity and position information in an ASCII file
including a README documentation file (tra86to96.atl and
README.atl).
Also, Northeast/North-central Pacific tropical storm and hurricane
data
(1949-1996) are also provided (tra49to96.epc and README.epc).
Provided by (Chris Landsea).
http://wxp.atms.purdue.edu/hur_atlantic/
This best track information for the Atlantic has provided in seperate
images for each years by some people at Purdue University. The tracks
for
the individual years have been provided in a color coded (for
intensity)
format.
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Web Site Historical Data:
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html (1995 storm
map)
http://grads.iges.org/pix/allhurr.html (1995 track info)
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/Trop...tropical.shtml
http://meridian.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html (Allison & Erin
sat pix)
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ (archive data)
http://wxp.atms.purdue.edu/hur_atlantic/ (past tracks)
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/home.html (some nice past sat pix/
loops)
http://www.aer.com/hurricane/hurricanes_95.html (great 1995
sat pix)
http://www.bbsr.edu/weather (nice 1995 sat pix)
http://www.fema.gov/fema/trop.html (some 1995 storm archives)
http://www.flinet.com/%7reiter (links to much past data)
http://www.gulf.net/%7Egbamonte/min_wet.htm (Erin & Opal
stories)
http://www.insiders.com/boca/flweathe.htm (brief Andrew/Gordon
info)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/ols-app-hurr.html (a few old sat
pix)
http://www.storm97.com (1995 and 1996 archives)
http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/storm.html (LA storm archives)
http://www.sims.net/links/hurricane.html (1995 storm archive)
http://www.terrapin.com/hurricane/Plotter (1995 plots... needs
Java)
http://www.vas-das.com/ (TONS of GOES-8 images... not just
tropical)