Web Directory

» 1976 Standard Atmosphere Calculator
   The online 1976 standard atmosphere calculator computes atmospheric properties like density, temperature, pressure and speed of sound up to 86 kilometers altitude. Graphics and a table generator are included.
   http://www.digitaldutch.com/atmoscalc/index.htm

» Andrew Russell
   Personal page describing Dr. Russell's work on thunderstorm development through projects like CSIP and COPS, and Southern Hemispheric atmospheric circulation signals in Antarctic ice cores.
   http://www.andrewrussell.co.uk

» Atmospheric Optics
   Photo visual spectacles produced by light playing on water drops, dust and ice crystals in the atmosphere. Explanations applying atmospheric physics, images and downloadable freeware to simulate them.
   http://www.atoptics.co.uk/

» Auroras: Paintings in the Sky
   What are auroras? What makes them happen? What do they look like? Where can you see them? Photos and QuickTime movies of the northern lights, and Realaudio interviews with NASA scientists.
   http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/index.html

» Diana William Bou Karam
   Personal page of Dr Karam where she describes her research into the effect of dust in the atmosphere. A long term mesoscale observation-modeling approach is used to analyze the radiative impact.
   http://drdiana.free.fr

» General Spectral Toolbox
   GENSPECT is a line-by-line radiative transfer code to calculate gas absorption and emissivity, emission and transmission for a wide range of atmospheric gases. GENSPECT has an online web interface is available as a MATLAB toolbox.
   http://www.genspect.com/

» Geostrophic Wave Circulations
   New algorithms for solving non-linear large scale atmospheric circulations, numerical experiments, related books by Yong Zhu from New Knowledge Publishing.
   http://wave.prohosting.com/nkpub/index.html

» How do the Dynamics of the Troposphere Affect the Chemistry of the Stratosphere?
   Study examining the effects of tropospheric dynamics and the changes that occur due to different concentrations of greenhouse gases.
   http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/kodyacs/Schlussbericht-2004-WP2_engl.pdf

» ICARE: Cloud-Aerosol-Water-Radiation Interactions
   Project to provide various services to support the research community in fields related to atmospheric research, such as aerosols, clouds, radiation and the water cycle and their interactions.
   http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr

» Kulgun.net- Atmospheric Optics
   Explanations of atmospheric optical phenomena occurring in photos in Kulgun, Australia and South Pole station in Antarctica.
   http://optics.kulgun.net/

» Liquid Nitrogen Simulation of Aurora Borealis
   Unified Field Theory explains Auroras Borealis and Australis and suggests an experimental simulation using an iron core container with electric coil wrapping and electron gun.
   http://www.allanstime.com/UnifiedFieldTheory/Aurora/

» McGreevy Ground-based VLF Recordings
   Earth's natural electromagnetic radio transmissions.
   http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/mcgreevy/

» NASA CERES Ocean Validation Experiment
   The CERES Ocean Validation Experiment (COVE) provides continuous radiation measurements at the Chesapeake Lighthouse for validation of The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) and other satellite products associated with NASA's Earth Obser
   http://cove.larc.nasa.gov

» NCAR CEDAR
   An online database of upper atmosphere, weather, and model data.
   http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu/

» Natural Radio Listening: Streaming Audio
   Provides information on natural radio signals in the very low frequency range, how to observe dynamic spectrum, and where to find online sources of streaming audio available on the internet.
   http://www.ab9il.net/vlf/vlf1.html

» ORDA Database: Remote Ionosphere Diagnostics
   Realtime data and archive of ionospheric parameters above Irkutsk and Norilsk (Russia); electron and ion temperatures, plasma drift, electron density. Data obtained by Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter Radar and DigiSondes.
   http://hawk.iszf.irk.ru

» On a Ray Tracing Method to Calculate Atmospheric Refraction
   Aimo Niemi provides a numerical method for calculating atmospheric refraction as a function of the zenith distance, ground level height, light color and relative humidity. Includes an example program for Pc Calculator.
   http://pc-calculator.110mb.com/ref/

» Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imaging System
   OSIRIS data, presentations and system status from the atmospheric research group at the Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies.
   http://osirus.usask.ca/

» Orb Study
   Here you will be introduced to research data and digital camera images of lower atmospheric plasma orbs gathered over a three year period from our isolated research site in Gulf Breeze, Florida.
   http://orbstudy.com

» Riometers for Measuring High Latitude Ionospheric Absorption
   Current riometer instruments in production and choices in selecting an instrument for various research projects.
   http://www.lajollasciences.com

» SID Monitoring Station-France
   Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SID) resulting from solar flares being measured from a France station. Real time data and station descriptions.
   http://sidstation.lionelloudet.homedns.org

» Secrets of the Polar Aurora
   Overview of the polar aurora, by a scientist; illustrated, with history and relevant physics.
   http://www.phy6.org/outreach/edu/aurora.htm

» Space Weather Resources
   Very large, categorized collection of links related to the interaction of solar wind and the magnetosphere.
   http://space.rice.edu/ISTP/

» Spectral Calculator
   Provides line-by-line simulation of high resolution infrared atmospheric gas spectra. Supporting this are the blackbody calculator, atmosphere constituent browser and the sun position calculator.
   http://www.spectralcalc.com

» The Community Coordinated Modeling Center
   Provides the space weather research community with model runs on request, visualization and analysis tools, validation and metrics information, and experimental real-time model runs and coupled model runs.
   http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

» UV Radiation, Ozone and Aerosols
   Personal blog of Dr. Manuel Anton in which he discusses news, conferences and articles about ultraviolet radiation and ozone.
   http://mananton.blogspot.com

» Virtual Institute of Space and Atmospheric Sciences
   Online community of people interested in the investigation of various aspects of the earth, atmosphere and space environments including global change, solar-terrestrial interactions and space sciences.
   http://www.visas-dias.hpage.com

» Why is the Sky Blue?
   Why is the sky blue in language that everyone can understand.
   http://www.sky-watch.com/articles/skyblue.html