Matthew A. Janiga M.S. Student, DAES, University at Albany Earth Science and Mathematics, 330

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Resources and Links Below are some resources and links related to my research, tropical forecasting, and some general atmospheric links. African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA) and Resources African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA) is an international project whose aim is to improve our understanding of the West African monsoon. While the primary field campaign took place in 2006 AMMA is a continuing effort. AMMA International AMMA Database AMMA-SAT & AMMA-MOD AMMA Image Archive NASA AMMA (NAMMA) RADAGAST ARM Mobile Facility (ARM) Niamey, Niger Tropical Weather: Forecasting and Resources Hurricanes NHC Navy/NRL Tropical Cyclone Page CIMSS Tropical Cyclone Page CIMSS MIMIC Product Quickscat GOES Jonathan Vigh's Model Page Models (FSU Site) Models (PSU Site) Models (NCEP) AOML Ocean Graphics COLA MPI Page NCEP/EMC Cyclogenesis Page Jeff Masters's Blog Penn State E-Wall Tropics Bob Hart’s Cyclone Phase Space RAMMB: Cyclogenesis Potential Index West African Monsoon NRL Tropics Satellite Images TRMM West Africa CPC: West Africa Rainfall CPC: African Desk West Africa Surface Maps Radar: Analysis, Software, and Resources There are numerous radar analysis software packages available on the web. The first thing one typically wants to do is to get the data in a useable format such as universal format (UF). RSL has a nice feature that allows one to quickly convert most radar formats to UF or gif images, for quick looks. RSL has an extensive object-oriented library written in C which is helpful for more advanced analyses. For quick looks at UF radar files the JAVA IRAS utility works well. For manual analysis and manipulation of radar data (unfolding, etc.) SOLO works well. However, SOLO requires DORADE sweep input files. UF files can be broken down into individual sweeps using the data translators which come with SOLO and vice versa. REORDER allows one to grid edited radar data and output to NETCDF format for easy plotting (e.g. NCL). However, putting radar data into a Cartesian grid is not always the best route. RSL JAVA IRAS SOLO REORDER Climate: Data, Visualization, and Resources CDC Map Room NCDC Monthly Reports Realclimate Blog Cryosphere Today Satellite: Data, Visualization, and Resources NASA Precipitation Products Archive Full Disc Satellite Archive Dundee Satellite Archive NASA Giovanni Satellite Plotting Page Soundings: Data, Visualization, and Resources Wyoming Sounding Page

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