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ATOC Weather Center
Atmospheric Sciences Group @ UQÀM Groupe des Sciences de l'Atmosphère
Centre Météo Montréal

Organisations:


Low clouds + aviation weather

NCAR Cloud Ceiling and Visibility project
NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center
COST-722 Short Range Forecasting Methods of Fog, Visibility and Low Clouds + MeteoSwiss page
COST-720 Integrated Ground-Based Remote-Sensing Stations for Atmospheric Profiling
FAA Air Traffic order 7900.5B (Surface Weather Observing)
NOAA Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1, Surface Weather Observations and Reports
NWS ASOS program 
MetEd web modules  : 
           . Radiation fog + Forecasting radiation fog  + Forecasting fog & stratus
           . West coast fog
Global surface-based cloud climatology
Ceiling & Visibility articles
Canadian fog climatology
GCSS Boundary Layer Clouds web page
International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP)
NWS METAR/TAF Info. 
Understanding aviation weather (USA Today)
NetFAM/COST722 workshop on cloudy boundary layer
12th Conf. on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology
blueball11th Conf. on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology
10th Conf. on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology
12th Conf. on Cloud Physics
14th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation - ICCP2004
blueball11th Conf. on Cloud Physics 
blueballSymposium on Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting (Toulouse '05)
blueball4th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew
blueball3rd International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew
blueball7th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling
A review of theoretical and observational studies in cloud and precipitation physics: 1991-1994 (AGU doc. by Rasmussen)
Fog and road weather


CLIWA-NET
CLOUD-NET 
IPSL-SIRTA  + ParisFog field experiment
Chilbolton Observatory
Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory
Cabauw Observatory 
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM) 
VOCALS
Marine Stratus Experiment (MASE05)
EPIC
DYCOMS-II
CloudSat + Canadian CloudSat/CALIPSO Validation Project (C3VP) + FRAM
DEVEX 

Boundary layer research

NCAR/MMM Boundary Layer Research
NCAR/ATD Integrated Surface Flux Facility
NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence & Diffusion Division
Argonne Nat'l. Lab Environmental Research + ABLE
Pacific Northwest National Lab.
Boundary Layer Met. Group, Oregon St. Univ.
Boundary Layer Met. Group, York Univ.
Boundary Layer Met. Group, Univ. of Reading
Meteorology & Air Quality, Wageningen University
Micrometeorology, Universität Bayreuth
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zürich
ISAO Atmospheric boundary layer, turbulence and dispersion
British Antarctic Survey - Boundary layer research

Atmospheric PBL research in the US (1991-1994) (AGU doc. by Moeng and LeMone)
Advances in land-atmosphere interaction research (AGU doc. by Entekhabi)
Land atmosphere interaction (AGU doc. by Dickinson)
Coastal meteorology (AGU doc. by Rodgers)

NCAR-ATD field experiments page
CASES-99
AmeriFlux + EuroFlux networks
Basel Urban Boundary Layer Experiment (BUBBLE)
NYC Urban Atmospheric Observatory
Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory + OHATS + CBLAST-Low
VTMX
EVA-GRIPS / LITFASS-2003

17th AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence (San Diego, CA, 2006)
16th AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence & 13th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere (Portland, ME, 2004)
15th AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence (Wageningen, 2002)
14th AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence (Aspen, 2000)
5th Conference on the Urban Environment (Vancouver, Canada, 2004)
26th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (Vancouver, Canada, 2004)

Mesoscale modelling

Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model
Penn. State U. / NCAR MM5
Colorado State U. RAMS
Navy Research Lab. COAMPS
Oklahoma U. ARPS
NOAA-ESRL MAPS/RUC
NOAA-NCEP ETA
MétéoFrance/Lab. d'Aérologie MesoNH
Env. Canada MC2 & GEM models
Consortium for Small Scale Modeling (COSMO)
HIRLAM
U. of Hamburg METRAS
DWD Lokal Modell

Arctic Region Climate system (ARCSyM)
Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM)
HIRHAM
Deutscher Wetterdienst-HRM
Max Planck Institute-REMO

PBL data assimilation +  PBL wind sensitivity

Data resources

Sounding data from NOAA/FSL
NOAA Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive
NCEP/NCAR reanalyses (from NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center)
NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis
NOAA/FSL MADIS
NOAA/ARL READY
NOAA/NESDIS GOES server
NRL/NPOESS Next-Generation Weather Satellite server
SST Data archives (U. Rhode Island)
Reynolds SST analysis (NHC)
NOAA OI SST analysis
Rutgers U. COOL ocean products
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment high-resolution sea surface temperature
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (snow)
NRL Aerosol Links Page

Web resources

"Bad Meteorology"
ECMWF Met. Training Lecture Notes
EumetCal
UCAR-COMET
Weather World 2010 project
WeatherWise (U.Wisconsin)
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing (tutorial)
NASA remote sensing (tutorial)
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (remote sensing tutorial)
Laser remote sensing (class website)

SBDART
(interactive radiative transfer)
Mie online (interactive scattering calculations)
SUNSET  (interactive times of sunrise and sunset)
CONVERSIONS 
(interactive)
Units Converter (interactive)
MOLECULAR WEIGHTS (interactive)
Math. constants, Physical Constants, Conversion factors (from NASA Ames Aerosol, Chemistry and Clouds Group)

Lat.-Lon. to distance calculator
Date-Julian Date converter
Map of time zones
Table of Beaufort wind speeds
Soil texture: Agriculture Canada + USDA

Guide to F77

SOS Math 
World of Mathematics (Wolfram)
StatPrimer
NIST - Engineering statistics handbook
Physics 2000 (interactive tutorials)
Dictionary of Units of Measurement
Merriam-Webster OnLine

Oxford English Dictionary
Hyperdictionary
UsingEnglish
Synonym/Antonym
Online translation

People (friends...colleagues...interesting people doing interesting things...)

Peter Zwack (UQÀM)
Eric Girard (UQÀM)
Jean-François Caron (UQÀM)
Kremena Darmenova (Georgia Tech.)

Laurent Menut (LISA, France)

Andreas Bott (Bonn Univ.)
Bjorn Stevens (UCLA)
Chris Bretherton (U. of Washington)
Robert Wood (U. of Washington)
Mathias Rotach (ETH Zürich)
Zbigniew Sorbjan (Marquette Univ.)
Tim Hewison (UK Met. Office)
Gert-Jan Steeneveld (Wageningen U.)

Life & Culture (things outside of work...)

NPR
Radio-Canada
BBC World News
Le Monde

The Boulder Movie page 
CU International Film Series
Boulder Theater
Fox Theater
Dairy Center for the Arts
Boulder Public Library
Boulder Bookstore 
City of Boulder (openspace info.)
Eldora Mountain Resort
Eclectic music from radioparadise.com
97.3 FM KBCO

moreMontreal-> English - Français 
Montreal.com
TourismMontreal
VOIR (journal culturel hebdomadaire-Montréal)
HOUR (weekly cultural chronicles-Montreal)

Flightview

 

 

Last updated: November 2005

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