Open Directory - Science: Earth Sciences: Atmospheric Sciences: Atmospheric Physics
See also: This category in other languages: - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Study examining the effects of tropospheric dynamics and the changes that occur due to different concentrations of greenhouse gases. [PDF] - 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. - Explanations of atmospheric optical phenomena occurring in photos in Kulgun, Australia and South Pole station in Antarctica. - The Light Precipitation Validation Experiment is an international field experiment to evaluate and improve satellite-based precipitation estimates at high latitudes. - 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. - Earth's natural electromagnetic radio transmissions. - 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 Observing System (EOS). - An online database of upper atmosphere, weather, and model data. - 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. - Rainbow prediction map helps the user find rainbows in the United States by combining live radar data and the angle of the sun into a rainbow zone map. - 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. - 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. - OSIRIS data, presentations and system status from the atmospheric research group at the Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies. - 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. - Current riometer instruments in production and choices in selecting an instrument for various research projects. - Sudden ionospheric disturbances resulting from solar flares being measured at a station in France. Includes real time data and station descriptions. - Overview of the polar aurora, by a scientist; illustrated, with history and relevant physics. - Very large, categorized collection of links related to the interaction of solar wind and the magnetosphere. - 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. - 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. - Highlights of the work of Roger J. Cheng, researcher at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center of the State University of New York at Albany. - Personal blog of Dr. Manuel Anton in which he discusses news, conferences and articles about ultraviolet radiation and ozone. - Why is the sky blue in language that everyone can understand.
