Pacific Northwest  Links for Water Science

This web page has been created in response to American Meteorological Society's Water in the Earth System.  Their commitment to science education is driving this project. 

Meteorology / Weather

General Weather: 

•  National Weather Service - White Salmon gives you the next 5 day forecast at a glance.

• National Weather Service for all areas of Washington and Oregon.

• Zonal Forecasts:  A more in depth discussion for White Salmon.

• Hood River Weather Station.  Good for real time data.

• Jet stream, For North America

• Western Regional Headquarters for NWS.

• MM-5  Gives picture forecast loops with many variables.

• Oregon Climate Service  is based in Corvallis.

Wind Forecasts:

• Iwindsurf,

• Wind-Surf .net

• Northwest Wind

• Wind Dance's Weather

• Beaufort Wind Scale

Winter Forecasting:

• North West Avalanche Center Mountain Weather Forecast

• North West Avalanche Center Avalanche Forecast

• Mount Hood Telemetry

• Trip Check,

• Ski Larry - comprehensive private ski page for North West.

• On The Snow

Program Subsections

These are the chapters in Water in the Earth System.  Since this is the context that we learned the material in I have resisted deleting the unit heading because I don't yet have content.  Hopefully it will give me a clear framework to place local resources. 

Ch1.    Introducing the Earth System:

Ch2.    Water's Unique Properties:

• Snow Crystal Science

Ch3.    The Global Water Cycle:

Ch4.    Water in the Atmosphere:  Humidity and Saturation:

Ch5.    Water in the Atmosphere: Clouds and Precipitation:

• Computer generated forecasts of precipitation.  You must scroll down to the 36km Precip. section on the left.

Ch6.    Water in the Lithosphere: Groundwater:

• Washington Ground Water Atlas from USGS

Ch7.    Runoff: Rivers, Lakes, and Glaciers:

•    Noaa US Hydrologic Center (Rivers), Noaa Northwest Hydrologic Center (Rivers),  Surf Your Watershed for Washington

Ch8.    Ocean in the Earth System:

• Now Coast allows you to see different marine variables.

Ch9.    Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions:

• Storm Surf, Magic Seaweed,

Ch10.  Water in Earth's Climate System:

• Pacific sea surface temperatures off shore are available at Sea Surface Temperatures,

Ch11. Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Oscillations (El Nino / La Nina):

• For a local summary of the effects of El Nino and La Nina on our specific conditions go to Oregon Climate Service and click on Reports to get the skinny.   

Ch12. Climate Change and the Water Cycle:

• National Climatic Data Center

• Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change , Specifically for the Pacific Northwest