Meteorology & Weather Science | Reference Information & Resources

Weather Science & Meteorology | Information & Reference

CIA World Factbook
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook provides reference information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, infrastructure, transportation, and military capability for 266 world nations and includes maps of the major world regions, flags of the world, and a physical, political, and time zone demarcation maps of the world

Meteorology guide
Online guides from the University of Illinois

NOAA Magazine
Online magazine of NOAA, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. News on climate and weather, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, lighting, drought, and space weather

Tropical Cyclones Portal | Wikipedia
Special portal section at Wikipedia on tropical cyclones including reference information, data, articles, photos, and news.

Weather Portal | Wikipedia
Special portal section at Wikipedia on weather including reference information, data, articles, photos, and news.

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Weather Data

National Data Buoy Center
Data from sea buoys from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA Magazine
Online magazine of NOAA, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. News on climate and weather, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, lighting, drought, and space weather

NOAA Weather Service | Storm Prediction Center
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is part of the National Weather Service (NWS) and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and provides forecasts and watches for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes over the contiguous United States. The SPC also monitors heavy rain, heavy snow, and fire weather events across the U.S. and issues specific products for those hazards.

RAP
Real-time weather data at the National Center for Atmospheric Research

Storm Pulse
Provides an interactive map showing cloud cover and up-to-the-minute weather information from satellites, buoys, and radar, plus 150 years of hurricane information.

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Modeling & Prediction

CCMC: Community Coordinated Modeling Center
The CCMC is a multi-agency partnership to enable, support and perform the research and development for next-generation space science and space weather models.

IBM Weather Modeling
Weather modeling and research group at IBM

Statistical Modeling Group at NOAA
From the National Weather Service

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Weather & Meteorological Organizations

American Meteorological Society
Promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences

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