Climate and the Biosphere: Links and Resources by Lab

General Resources

Climate and Forests

• National Climate Assessment: Forests
• U.S. Forest Service: Climate Change Resource Center

Climate

• NASA Climate Portal
• NOAA Climate Portal
• NOAA: State of the Climate Report
• 2014 State of the Climate - Highlights
• Climate Wizard
• World Meteorological Organization - Climate

Lab 1: Climate, Weather, and Trees

Lab 1A

• Online Tree Guide
• Tree Fact Sheets
• Cloud Chart

Lab 1B

• Hardiness Zone Map
• Sugaring Wisconsin

Lab 1C

• Worldclimate
• Burlington VT climatograph page
• NOAA climate normals 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
• Northeast Regional Climate Data Center
• NCDC
• The official Vermont maple site
• UVM maple research facility
• Natures Notebook

Lab 2: Climate and Earth's Energy Balance

Lab 2A

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

Lab 2B

• Global Energy Balance - interactive
• NASA Earth Observatory Article - Energy Balance
• NWS Jetstream - The Earth-Atmosphere Energy Balance

Lab 2C

• How does the sun's energy get into the climate system? - video (science360.gov/obj/tkn-video/4ee36f26-71e6-41cd-bdcf-662c4dca6e9b/earths-heat-balance-suns-energy)
• A blanket around the Earth - article
• Greenhouse Gas Concentration vs Temperature - interactive
• Simple Climate Model - interactive
• Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect - interactive
• Greenhouse gases - article
• Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle - movie

Lab 3: Climatology Basics

Lab 3A

• GEOS clouds - modeled
• Moving Heat - interactive
• Education Place Collection of Maps
• NWS Jetstream - article
• Jet Stream on Globe – wind map

Lab 3B

• United States: Climate
• 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
• U.S. Historical Climate Network

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?
• [link https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 'NASA Earth Observations (NEO)' new]

Lab 5: Extreme Weather Patterns

Lab 5A

• NOAA: State of the Climate 2012
• NOAA: State of the Climate Report
• Global Climate Dashboard
• NOAA News and Features: Extreme Events
• 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)(PDF)
• PEW Extreme Weather Events Map

Lab 5B

• Why study climate change? - video (science360.gov/obj/tkn-video/c7f6891a-1fbe-496d-ad3f-d2b1610ba54d/know-introduction)
• EPA Students Guide to Climate Change
• Climate Wizard - interactive model
• Climate Change: A warming world (PowerPoint 4.7MB Jun23 11)
• NOAA Climate Watch
• Climate Change: Global Temperature
• NASA Climate Time Machine - visualizations
• Climate Nexus
• National Climate Assessment - Indicators

Lab 5C

• Earth: the Operators Manual: Segment 1 - video
• Earth: the Operators Manual: Segment 4 - video
• Trends in Atmospheric CO₂
• NCDC U.S. Cities Analysis
• NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend - article
• NOAA: State of the Climate Report

Lab 5D

• Global Climate Change (KVCS)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scenarios explained
• Climate Wizard
• Global Climate Change
• What is Climate Modeling? PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 6.3MB Jun20 11)
• Climate Modeling 101

Lab 6: Trees and Paleoclimate

Lab 6A

• Paleoclimate ( This site may be offline. )
• Climate Timeline
• Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 1.8MB Aug8 18) PowerPoint file.

Lab 6B

• Pollen Viewer—works best with Firefox browser
• Atlas of the United States

Lab 6C

• USGS Atlas of Pollen Spores

Lab 7: Future of the Forest

Lab 7A

• NOAA Data Snapshots
• Climate Explorer
• Silva Culture Information – Maple Sugar tree
• U.S. Forest Service's Climate Change Atlas
• ArborDay
• Climate Change by Sector: Agriculture
• The New Climate Normals: Gardeners Expect Warmer Nights
• National Climate Assessment - Forest sector

Lab 7B

• Sugaring Wisconsin
• Maple Sap Flow interactive
• Seasons of Change
• USDA

Lab 7C

• Seasons of Change: What can I do?
• Working trees
• 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
• Arbor Day tree selector
• Global Releaf
• Earth4u - interactive model
• Search for Environmental Resources by State