Climate and Weather Links and Resources by Lab

Lab 1: Maple Syrup Mystery

Lab 1A

• Online Tree Guide
• Tree Fact Sheets
• Cloud Chart

Lab 1B

• Hardiness Zone Map
• Sugaring Wisconsin

Lab 1C

• Burlington VT. climatograph page
• Burlington VT
• National Weather Service Page
• Weather Underground Daily History for Burlington VT

Lab 1D

• North Country Monthly Climate Summaries
• Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) data products
• NCDC
• The official Vermont maple site
• UVM maple research facility

Lab 2: Earth's Radiation Balance

Lab 2A

• NOAA jetstream
• Water Cycle Animation
• Water Cycle Article at NASA Earth Observatory
• NOAA Jetstream

Lab 2B

• NASA Earth Observatory Article
• Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle

Lab 2C

• How does the sun's energy get into the climate system?
• A blanket around the Earth
• Greenhouse Gas Concentration vs Temperature
• Simple Climate Model
• Greenhouse gas interactive
• Greenhouse gases

Lab 3: Climatology Basics

Lab 3A

• GOES clouds - modeled
• Moving Heat Interactive
• NWS Jetstream
• Jet Stream

Lab 3B

• Prism Climate Group
• Interactive air mass characteristics table
• Air masses and weather patterns
• Compare warm and cold fronts
• Exploring Earth Visualizations
• Global surface currents
• Climatography of the United States

Lab 3C

• Weather Underground
• National Weather Service Maps
  

Lab 4: Climate Patterns and Life

Lab 4A

• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Blue Planet Biomes
• World Biomes.com
• NASA Mission Biomes

Lab 4B

• Google Earth Homepage
• Google Earth User Guide
• What is Climatology?
• NASA Earth Observations (NEO)

Lab 5: Extreme Weather Patterns

Lab 5A

• State of the Climate 2009
• Global Climate Dashboard
• Drought Baking the Southern United States
• Tornado Outbreak
• Torrential Rains in Thailand
• Winter Temperatures Influenced by North Atlantic Oscillation, La Niña
• Another Wintry Winter for the Eastern U.S.
• Dry Winter in the Southwest
• A Hurricane in New England?
• Scientific American 2011 Wildest Year on Record
• Why Extremes Matter (Acrobat (PDF) 914kB Jun20 11)

Lab 5B

• Introduction: Why study climate change?
• EPA Students Guide to Climate Change
• Climate Wizard
• Earth: The Operators Manual
• Climate Change: A warming world (PowerPoint 4.7MB Jun23 11)
• NOAA Climate Watch
• Global Temperature
• Climate Time Machine

Lab 5C

• Global Climate Change
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Climate Wizard
• Global Climate Change
• What is Climate Modeling? (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 6.3MB Jun20 11)
• global surface currents

Lab 6: Trees and Paleoclimate

Lab 6A

• Paleoclimate
• Climate Timeline
• Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future (PowerPoint 2.6MB Jun25 11) PowerPoint file.

Lab 6B

• Pollen Viewer
• Atlas of the United States

Lab 6C

• USGS

Lab 7: Future of the Forest

Lab 7A

• Climate Wizard Site
• Silva Culture Information – Maple Sugar tree
• U.S. Forest Service's Climate Change Atlas
• ArborDay
• U.S. Climate Impacts by Sector: Agriculture
• The New Climate Normals: Gardeners Expect Warmer Nights

Lab 7B

• Sugaring Wisconsin
• Sap Flow interactive
• seasons of change
• Working trees
• USDA

Lab 7C

• seasons of change
• Working Trees for Communities (Acrobat (PDF) 948kB Jun27 11)(PDF file)
• Working Trees for Carbon Solutions (Acrobat (PDF) 234kB Jun27 11)(PDF file)
• Tree Atlas
• Search for Environmental Resources by State