Links and Interactive Activities

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Weather and Climate Course

Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3 | Ch 4 | Other Links

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Chapter 1: Earth's Atmosphere

Chapter 2: Warming Earth

Chapter 3:

Chapter 4:

Chapter 5:

Chapter 6:

Chapter 7:

Chapter 8: Air Masses, Fronts, and Mid-Latitude Cyclones

Other links

Meteorology Links

• NWS Buffalo
• MCC's Current Weather - live weather feed coming soon!
• Radar loop - BUF
• Current Nat'l Weather Map
• SF State Regional Weather Server
• Weather Discussion Links (UC Davis) http://atm.ucdavis.edu/~grotjahn/course/atm111/mapdisc/index.html
• Archived radar for United States (NCAR)
• Hurricane Case Studies

  • Case: http://www.sciencecases.org/hurricane/hurricane.asp
  • Teaching Notes: http://www.sciencecases.org/hurricane/hurricane_notes.asp
  • Case Collection: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm

Geography Links

• Teachers Guide to Modern Geography - AAG http://www.aag.org/tgmg/materials.cfm
• Excellent Earth Science and Geography Links (Central Michigan University) http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi/
• National Geographic News
• Google Earth
• International Polar Year (IPY)
• Map Collection (Perry-Castañeda Library at University of Texas @ Austin) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/cities_sites.html
• Google Earth Resources (Texas A and M)
• New York Geographic Alliance

Physical Geography Project

• Minimum Requirement
• Processes and Evidence Guide
• Climate Change Resources
  
  

GIS & Remote Sensing

• ESRI - http://www.esri.com/

• ENVI - Remote Sensing Platform - http://www.ittvis.com/ENVI/

• NASA's Remote Sensing Tutorial - http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/

• NASA's Earth Observatory - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
• University of Buffalo Geography - http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/calkinsaward.shtml

• Pathways to Technology (geospatial)- http://www.pathwaystotechnology.org/fields/fl_gisgps.html

Crysphere

• Goddard Space Flight Center - Cryospheric Sciences Branch - http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/
• NASA's Cryospheric Science Program - http://ice.nasa.gov/
• National Snow and Ice Data Center - http://nsidc.org/index.html
• Permafrost Group at the University of Delaware - http://www.udel.edu/Geography/udpg/research/index.html
• NASA's Tour of the Cryosphere - http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/cryosphere.html

Climate Change Resources

• Climate Change Resources (Use to start on your Physical Geography Project)
• IPCC Fourth Assessment - http://www.ipcc.ch/ 17 November 2007  
• IPCC FAQ:  The point about man-made climate change being bunk or a myth has clearly and fully been disproved with the most comprehensive scientific enterprise in human history.  - http://www.gcrio.org/ipcc/ar4/wg1/faq/index.htm
  
• Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science
  Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups, Create Confusion http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html
• BBC article discussing minimum sea ice extent during Arctic summers.  Could it be ice-free by year 2013?
• Climate talk from the Gristmill - the environmental news blog - http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics
• 10 Solutions for Climate Change (from Scientific American)

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Teaching Links

• UW Madison Java Applets for Weather http://profhorn.aos.wisc.edu/wxwise/
• Excellent Earth Science and Geography animations http://geography.cst.cmich.edu/Franc1M/Animations/animation_list_posted.htm
• Google Earth Resources (Texas A and M)

Organizations

• AAG (American Association of Geographers)
• AMS (American Meteorological Society)

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Contact

Phone: 585-292-2396

Email: jlittle@monroecc.edu

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Brighton Campus
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