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Ocean and Atmosphere Websites suitable for General and School-level
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Curriculum Links |
| Essential Learnings - Learning Teaching and Assessment Guide, Education Department, Tasmania >> Climate Change - A teaching package for levels 7 and 8 |
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Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority |
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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
| Project Atmosphere Australia A teacher-developed project for school communities. Includes classroom and on-line activities. |
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Weather Observing |
| Caulfield South Weather Station - An online school-based weather station web page The UV & Me Project - An online school-based ultra-violet web page |
| Cloud Appreciation Society In association with Pretor-Pinney's book, "The Cloudspotters Guide" - see reference below .... |
| Cloud Atlas, Houze's |
| Clouds for Observers - British Met Office |
| Australian Antarctic Division >> Have you see a ... Polar Stratospheric Clouds |
| Pretor-Pinney, G., c2006, The Cloudspotter's Guide, Sceptre,
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Weather Forecasting |
| Weatherwise - Various interactive training aids >> Coriolis - This subsite shows the Coriolis force on a zonal wind >> Geostrophic Wind - and this subsite calculates the wind that balances Coriolis force, pressure gradient force and friction |
| National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) >> JetStream - An online school for Weather |
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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
| The American Meteorological Society >>Meteorological Glossary - from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) |
| Australian Atmospheric Soundings - Australian upper air observations. Designed for glider pilots. Includes a help page of how to read the charts. |
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World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) - A United Nations Organization: "Working together in weather, climate and water" |
| Gibilisco, S., c2006, Meteorology Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA |
| Konvicka, T., 1999, Teacher’s Weather Sourcebook, Teacher Ideas Press, Englewood, Colorado, USA |
| Sorbjan, Z., c1996, Hands-on Meteorology: Stories, Theories, and Simple Experiments, Project Atmosphere, American Meteorological Society, Boston, USA |
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Understanding the Weather
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| The Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia - Includes the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the movement of fluids. |
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Face Recognition – Pattern Recognition - from the ABC Radio Science Show |
| The Australian Bureau of Meteorology >> Learn About Meteorology - Bureau educational section >> Learning About Meteorology - External Sites - Bureau web page linking to many non-Bureau sites |
| International Standard Atmosphere - A table of properties at different levels. This is idealised, standard or reference conditions as used in the aviation industry |
| Local Winds - A list of names of Local Winds from around the world. |
| Bak, P. 1996, How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality, Copernicus, New York, USA |
| Lynch, A. H., and Cassano, J. J., c2006, Applied Atmospheric Dynamics, Wiley, New Jersey, USA |
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Pasini, A., 2005, From Observations to Simulations: A Conceptual Introduction to Weather and Climate Modelling, World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, USA |
| Sturman, A. P., and Tapper, N. J., 2005, The Weather and Climate of Australia and New Zealand , Second Edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia |
| Bohren, C.F., (c1987), Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics, Wiley, New York, USA |
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Climate Issues |
| The Australian Bureau of Meteorology >> Indigenous Weather Knowledge - weather, climate and culture of indigenous Australians. |
| Australian Antarctic Division >> Guide to the Atmosphere - A description of our atmosphere - to 290km |
| United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) >> Youth Resources: State of the Environment - Information plus links to action around the world. |
| International Polar Year 2007 to 2009 >> Kid's Footprint - An activity related to exploring global warming |
| The Water Cycle Wikipedia - Water / Hydrological Cycle: Data includes average amounts of water in each "arm" of the Cycle and residency times |
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The Water Cycle - from Water Science for Schools |
| Water - A Never Ending Story - the Hydrological Cycle |
| Sustainability Victoria - suggests practical solutions to environmental problems |
| Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - Includes access to information on energy conservation |
| Ozone - Ozone information from the National Centers of Environment Prediction (NCEP) Polar Atmosphere |
| The Australian Bureau of Meteorology >> Climate Education Site Map - Navigate around the Bureau Climate Education pages efficiently >> Climate Glossary - A list of terms used in the Bureau's Climate pages >> Climate Information - Australian Climate Information: Seasonal Outlooks, Recent and Historical Data as well as Climate Change >> Climate Averages - Australian climate data, statistics and maps >> Climate Activities 2003 - A summary of Australian climate issues >> Australian Rainfall Patterns During El Niño Years - shows typical El Niño rainfall distributions >> Australian Annual and Seasonal Rainfall Variability Maps - shows the variability of the Australian climate |
| World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) - A United Nations Organization: "Working together in weather, climate and water" >> World Weather and Climate Information |
| WMO Commission for Climatology, 2005, Abridged Final Report with Resolutions and Recommendations, Fourteenth Session, Beijing, 3 – 10 November 2005, WMO-No. 996, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland |
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Climate Change |
| Australian Antarctic Division >> Ozone Depletion - Its effects on marine microbes |
| International Panel on Climate Change - Includes IPCC 2001 report and 21-page summary of 2007 report |
| Climate Change: Frequently Asked Questions - Questions and Answers -from the Australian Greenhouse Office |
| Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society's Policy on Climate Change |
| Climate Change - A Tasmanian teaching package for levels 7 and 8 |
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Radiation
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| The UV & Me Project - An online school-based ultra-violet web page |
| About the Satellite Images - Bureau of Meteorology Help pages on satellite imagery and products |
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SunSmart An anti-cancer organisation which promotes safe and responsible exposure to sunshine |
| Sun altitude and azimuth angles, and sunrise and sunset times - from Geoscience Solar elevation / altitude and solar azimuth - from Geoscience
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| The Australian Bureau of Meteorology >> Solar Energy - A house design site |
| Atmospheric Optics |
| Atmosphere - Optical Effects |
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Lynch, D. K., & Livingston, D, 1995, Color and Light in Nature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, NY, USA |
| Minnaert, M., c1993, Light and Color in the Outdoors, Springer-Verlag, New York, USA |
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History
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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology |
| Biography of J Willard Gibbs - from the Sam Houston State University, a famous thermodynamics expert |
| Federation and Meteorology - from the University of Melbourne |
| Anderson, K., c2005, Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA |
| Lamb, H. H., 1982, Climate, History, and the Modern World, Methuen, London, UK |
| Nebeker, F. c1995, Calculating the weather: meteorology in the 20th century, Academic Press, San Diego, USA |
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The Arts
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Weather and the Arts - includes classic tales, poetry, words of wisdom and some humour |
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Statistics and Probability
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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Opportunities and Risk of Climate Change (Sneider, S., 2002, the Swiss Re article) includes an analysis of statistically based forecasting |
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Bruce, C., 2001, Conned Again, Watson!: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math and Probability, Perseus Publishing Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Burger, e. B., and Starbird, M., 2005, Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, USA |
| Lindley, D.V., and Hoboken, N.J., c2006, Understanding Uncertainty, Wiley-Interscience, Somerset, New Jersey, USA. |
| National Academic Press, 2003, A Workshop Summary: Communicating Uncertainties in Weather and Climate Information,National Academic Press, USA |
| Nicholls, N., 1999: Cognitive Illusions, Heuristics, and Climate Prediction. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 80, 1385-1397. |
| Taleb, N. N., 2004, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Penguin Books, London, UK |
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Indirectly Related Links
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| Schools Orienteering - Orienteering Australia's site for an introduction into orienteering and map reading skills |
| Raisz, E. J., 1962, Principles of Cartography, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA |
| Windust, A., 2003, Waterwise House & Garden: A Guide for Sustainable LivingLandlinks Press, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia |
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