Discussions and Learning

Operational Models Encyclopedia - COMET MetEd - may not be the most up to date.

Data Assimilation - getting initial data for models. Description and great video.

Hemispheric ScaleTropopause Height Description

Cloud Atlas from the Univ. of Washington Mesoscale group.

Excellent Online Weather School with the National Weather Service.
Be sure to look at the first link near the top, on becoming Weatherwise.

Haby Weather Forecasting Hints.

Interesting 500 mb wind and surface pressure example.

Grid scales of weather models (from here).

An example list of sites to visit for Reno on a quick tour (from observations to hemispheric scale to local scale)

Right click and open links in a new tab.

Observations

Radar and Satellite Imagery (College of Dupage).

Daily Weather Maps for the Continental US.

UNR weather station surface weather of the last 7 days. Click on the "Graph of last 7 days" on the left, for example. Other data, like wind rose, is useful too.

Slide Mountain. Click on the "Graph of last 7 days" on the left, for example. Other data, like wind rose, is useful too.

Royal Gorge Cross Country Webcam (near Sugarbowl).

Weather and Hazards Data Viewer - Surface observations and National Weather ServiceWatches/Warnings

Rammb-Slider Great satellite imagery site

Reno and surrounding area

Tropical Tidbits dynamics tropopause height to study large scale motions of the atmosphere, troughs (blue) and ridges (red).

Tropical Tidbits - 250 mb map of the continental US. Many other map choices and models are available.

Earth Schools Global and Local Visualization of winds and meteorological variables.

Surface fronts and sea level pressure for current and next two days.

Tropical Tidbits Total Accumulated Precipitation

NBM 1-D Viewer - National Blend of Models point viewer, best probabilistic guidance, experimental site.

Reno National Weather Service Forecast for UNR weather.

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