books ‘n’ sites on METEOROLOGY

REF 550 Ear  Macmillan encyclopedia of earth sciences.  

REF 551.5 Com The complete weather resource, by Phillis Engelbert.

REF 551.697 Mil  Pacific Northwest Weather, by George R. Miller

551.5 All   How the weather works by Michael Allaby.  

551.5 Bur  Weather, by William James Burroughs.

551.5 Gol   The complete idiot’s guide to weather, by Mel Goldstein.

551.5 Rey  Cambridge guide to the weather, by Ross Reynolds

551.5 Wea  Weather

551.6973 Lud  National Audubon Society field guide to North American weather,
by David McWilliams Ludlum

551.6 Pea  The Times Books world weather guide, E. A.  Pearce.   

Fraser site with interesting little facts http://fraser.cc/utilities/DidYouKnow.html

American Meteorological Society http://www.ametsoc.org/index.html

University of Illinois online guide to meteorology. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

For Spacious Skies Foundation, an amazing site for sky gazers, and cloud watchers http://www.forspaciousskies.com/index.html

Tropical Meteorological Project, Colorado State U. http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/

MSHS Library subscribes to the ProQuest & eLibrary databases.  These contain
material that originally appeared in print in over 5,000 different newspapers,
magazines, journals, reference books and other print sources. 
eLibrary also contains transcripts of selected radio and television programs.

Some of the periodicals available via these databases are:

     Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

     Journal of Applied Meteorology

     Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

     Weather & Forecasting

See the librarian for information about accessing these databases from home. 

Also, the King County Library System has web-access to other databases.  You need a KCLS library card.

books ‘n’ sites on FORECASTING

551.5 Mog  The Amateur Meteorologist, by Mogil & Levine

551.6 Dun  Weather & Forecasting, by Dunlop & Wildon

551.6 Rub  The weather wizard's cloud book : how you can forecast the weather
accurately and easily, by Louis D. Rubin

Tools for forecasting weather http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_forecasting

Forecasting the weather http://library.thinkquest.org/17865/forecast/forecast/

Animated explanation of “albedo”

http://profhorn.aos.wisc.edu/wxwise/AckermanKnox/chap2/Albedo.html

University of Illinois online guide to hydrology

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/home.rxml

Montana State University lesson on analyzing meteorological data from Mars

http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/MarsWeather/marsstudent.htm

Appalachian folk wisdom on weather forecasting

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4603/weather.html

books ‘n’ sites on METEOROLOGICAL  INSTRUMENTS

681 New  Making and using scientific equipment, David E. Newton.   

Franklin Institute – make your own weather station http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html

Weather maps and data

http://www.signalsofspring.net/student_maps_data.cfm?imagery=Weather

Anemometer -- defined and illustrated in the ultimate online dictionary http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/an/anemometer.html

Texas Tech University Wind Science and Engineering Research Center -- projects for students http://www.wind.ttu.edu/K12/Kids.php

History and development of satellite meteorology http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~tracyd/geog674/geog674_history.html

A conference paper on the “human barometer” http://www.unh.edu/history/golinski/paper2.htm

Site with links to sites on weather instruments
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001440.shtml

Brief history of the use of kites in meteorology
http://www.nationalkitemonth.org/history/kitehistory.shtml

books ‘n’ sites on WEATHER HISTORY & MYTH

551.5 Loc  The weather companion : an album of meteorological history, science, legend,
and folklore, by G. Lockhart

551.51 Deb  Wind: how the flow of air has shaped life, myth and the land, by Jan DeBlieu

551.57 Ham  The invention of clouds : how an amateur meteorologist forged the language
of the skies, by R. Hamblyn

551.6973 Las  Braving the elements : the stormy history of American weather, by Laskin, David 

History and instruments of meteorology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology

Weather folklore

http://dmoz.org/Society/Folklore/Weather_Beliefs/

Weather folk beliefs juxtaposed with scientific explanation

http://open-site.org/Science/Weather_and_Climate/Folklore/

5 myths about tornados debunked

http://www.tornadoproject.com/myths/myths.htm

books ‘n’ sites on EXTREME WEATHER

REF 551.55 Lon Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones, by David Longshore

363.738 Ste   Storms of the future, by Paul Stein

551.5 Chr   Can it really rain frogs? the world’s strangest weather events, by C. Spencer

551.5 Eri   Violent Storms, by Jon Erickson

551.55 All   Blizzards, by Michael Allaby

551.55 All   Tornadoes,  by Michael Allaby

551.55 Fis   The Scariest Place on Earth: eye to eye with hurricanes, by David E. Fisher

551.57 Dol   Drought : the past, present, and future enemy, by Edward F. Dolan.   

Societal aspects of weather  http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/socasp/toc_img.html

National Weather Service site  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

NASA site on lightening and humans 
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd18jun99_1.htm

Earth & Mineral Science Library, UPenn, site with links http://www.libraries.psu.edu/emsl/guides/disasters/meteor.html