Physics 137
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The visible earth web site has all sorts of satellite pictures and movies of
phenomenon on the earth. If it can be seen from space you will probably find it
here.
Chapter 2
The Sun is a Mass of
Incandescent Gas
The Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement Program (Physics Today, January 2003)
Magnetosphere
Chapter 3
Sunrise/Sunset
time calculator from U. S. Naval Observatory
Daily temperature cycle
About
the analemma on the 4th floor
Chapter 4
Atmospheric Optics Summary Sheet
Hyperphysics
information on vision and light
Some
details on the human eye (from hyperphysics)
Rainbows:
Weather and Atmospheric
Photography
Crepuscular Rays, Low Resolution Pictures (smaller, faster transfer)
Crepuscular Rays, High Resolution Pictures
Sky
Polarization (low resolution)
Sky
Polarization (high resolution)
Chapter 5
Comparison of temperature, rel. humidity, and dewpoint
Chapter 6
Clouds:
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Daily pressure vairations:
Chapter 11
El Nino
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
North Atlantic Oscillation
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
This picture has been circulated as a stormfront associated with
Hurricane Isabel but is claimed to actually document "a supercell
thunderstorm rotating around the decaying part of Cyclone Graham, which was
off the northwest coast of Australia this past February (2003)." (The claim
was reported to have been made by someone named Clinton Rocky, reported to
be the webmaster for a National Weather Service site) Even that claim has
been contested with the claim that it was taken somewhere on the Great
Lakes.
This picture has also been circulated as a stormfront associated with
Hurricane Isabel. I have been able to find no explicit explanation of this
particular picture but it appears to be consistent with a severe
thunderstorm or supercell thunderstorm.
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Effects of Cosmic Rays and the Solar Cycle
Climate Modeling
