Weather Forecasting Resources

This list of sites was compiled by students and faculty in the Texas A&M Practical Weather Forecasting class.

Potential Vorticity

• Jim Steenburgh's Model Loops
  • Dynamic tropopause maps, for past and future, user-specified areas (7-day analysis archive)
• Wisconsin GFS Tropopause Forecast
  • Tropical and oceanic two-panel tropopause/surface maps out to 84 h (qgpv and PV available too)
• Arctic Stratosphere Page by Doernbrack
  • Two-week analysis loops for tropopause and ipv
• SUNY/McGill GFS Analysis Animations
  • User-defined loops for tropopause, PV, and diagnostic analyses (6-month archive)
• University of Reading Analyses
  • Hemispheric and global loops of PV, streamfunction, etc, for past week or two.
• University of Washington Weather Graphics Loops
  • IPV maps from the GFS for 295K, 310K, and 330K, two weeks centered on present
• Greg Hakim's Tropopause Maps
  • Tropopause and IPV maps for past 7 days, both hemispheres