The NWS Industrial Meteorology (IM) Staff has posted the bulk of the proceedings for this important January 9-10, 1999, meeting as an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file for download or printing. The current posting includes an Executive Summary and Action Plan. We will post the rest of the meeting proceedings next week.
The free Adobe® Acrobat® reader/printer is available from http://www.adobe.com.
The European Commission recently published a revealing paper on how the information gathered by governments and other public bodies can be used for the greatest benefit of European citizens and businesses. Such a paper would have been treated as heresy even last year. IM highly recommends a read of the press release and the Green paper at:
The National Climate Data Center (NCDC) has developed a Storm Events Database accessible through its web page. Users have a choice of selecting by state, type of storm, begin time, and then further refine the search to hail size, wind speed, dollar damage, etc. Query results document city or county, date, time, type, magnitude, deaths, injuries, amount of property damage, and amount of crop damage. The page also allows you to view online radar mosaics. Point to:
The National Center for Atmospheric Research has opened a useful web site titled the Extreme Weather Sourcebook. The site provides quick access to data on the damage costs from hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes in the U.S. and its territories. The Sourcebook reports decades of information in constant 1997 dollars, simplifying comparisons among extreme weather events.
Point to http://www.dir.ucar.edu/esig/HP_roger/sourcebook/.
The National Geophysical Data Center recently released a new handbook on global warming. The Web Site, A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming, focuses on the climate perspective of temperature variations in the last centuries back to millions of years. You can find the site at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html.
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Prediction Center has recently begun posting daily snow depth and snowfall data and maps that include observations from over 11,000 cooperative weather observers. The seasonal product will be available October-April at http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/products/season_update/snow_map/.
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