Being the pack rat that I am, I have saved NWS regional technical attachments back through the late 1970's. Some of them fall in the classic category, authored by the likes of Len Snellman and Phil Williams, two of the finest synopticians with whom I had the experience to work. Through the modern miracle of Adobe Acrobat and a half way decent scanner, we can now read these technical attachments into our web page. John Skoda, who makes this entire IM home page possible through his brains and patience is reading in approximately one attachment a week. You can find them at the bottom of http://www.nws.noaa.gov/im/tecnews.htm. The current attachments review Baratropic Rossby Wave Energy Dispersion and Contributions of Helicity to the Formation of a Relatively Long Lived Tornado.
I thought I would pass on some Internet sites for arctic weather and climate data since the weather has been rather hot in a number of locations. Perhaps it will make you all feel cooler. At the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute go to http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/WXCLIMO1/WXCLIMO1.html and scroll down to weather and climatology links.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse has a page for high latitude climate transects at http://agdc.usgs.gov/data/.
And the Canadian Meteorological and Climate Center can be accessed at http://www.cmc.ec.gc.ca/climate.
Finally there is an on line course in Air Quality Meteorology sponsored by EPA and NOAA at http://www.shodor.org/metweb/index.html.
NOAA has created a home page to access daily satellite imagery that highlights fires, volcanoes, floods, oil spills, as well as weather events and other grophysical phenomena such as ice movement. Point to http://www.osei.noaa.gov/updaterecent.html.
Established in 1997 following an investigation into a possible 24 hour snowfall record at Montague, New York, the NCEC has as its charge to assess the scientific merit of extreme meteorological/climatological events and provide a recommendation to NOAA management regarding the validity of the measurement. The NCEC works with the NWS Office of Public Affairs to disseminates NOAA's recommendation of the event and coordinate media inquiries.
The committee is chaired by a representative of the National Climate Data Center and composed of representatives from the National Weather Service's Office of Meteorology and the American Association of State Climatologists.
For more information on this committee or any of its findings contact Andy.Horvitz@noaa.gov.
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