# Presentation: 534098

## Useful Internet Sites for Tropical Cyclones

**Useful Internet Sites for Tropical Cyclones**

- NATIONAL  HURRICANE CENTER (updated April 14, 2007)

- JACK BEVEN RICHARD PASCH

**WHERE  AMERICA’S  CLIMATE  AND  WEATHER  SERVICES  BEGIN**

## Notes

**A triple asterik (***) means a particularly useful site for tropical cyclone data**

## TPC Advisory Information

**Tropical Prediction Center (www.nhc.noaa.gov)**
**National Weather Service (weather.gov)**
**FEMA Tropical Storm Watch (www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/index.shtm)**
**Hurricane Watch Net (www.hwn.org)**
**College of DuPage Weather (weather.cod.edu/danatext.html)**
**Florida State University Text Weather (www.met.fsu.edu/index.pl/wxdata)**
**Florida Explores Tropical Weather (www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html)**

## TPC Advisory Information

**Florida State University FTP site (ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/weather/tropical/)**
**Plymouth State College Tropical Weather (vortex.plymouth.edu/tropical.html)**
**Weather Underground Tropical Page (www.wunderground.com/tropical/)**

## Other Cyclone Advisory Information

**Central Pacific Hurricane Center (www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/cphc/)**
**Joint Typhoon Warning Center (https://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc.php)**
**Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center (www.weather.navy.mil/home1.html)**
**Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center (https://www.npmoc.navy.mil/)**
**Canadian Hurricane Center (www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/)**

## Other Cyclone Advisory Information

**University of Hawaii Tropical Weather (mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/tropical/index.cgi?banner=uhmet)**
**Unisys Hurricane Archive (weather.unisys.com/hurricane/)**
**WMO Severe Weather Information Center (severe.worldweather.org)**

## Real-time Satellite Imagery

**NOAA Geostationary Satellite Server (www.goes.noaa.gov)**
*****NOAA Satellite Services Division (www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-atl.html)**
**NESDIS GOES Sounder Products (www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/goes/soundings/index.html#products)**
**NOAA Satellite Services Division GOES Products (www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/PCPN/pcpn-na.html)**
*****RAMDIS Online (www.cira.colostate.edu/RAMM/Rmsdsol/main.html)**

## Real-time Satellite Imagery

*****CIMSS Tropical Cyclones (cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/tropic.html)**
**CIMSS Real Tine GOES Data (cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/realtime/)**
**Space Science and Engineering Center (www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/)**
*****NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center (www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/)**
**NASA GOES Project (rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/)**
**LSU Earth Scan Laboratory (www.esl.lsu.edu/home/)**

## Real-time Satellite Imagery

*****NRL Tropical Cyclone Page (www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html)**
**NRL Large-scale Satellite Imagery (www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/tropics.cgi)**
*****FNMOC Tropical Cyclone Page (152.80.49.216/tc-bin/tc_home.cgi)**
**NRL NEXSAT Page (www.nrlmry.navy.mil/nexsat_pages/nexsat_home.html)**

## Real-time Satellite Imagery

**EUMETSAT (www.eumetsat.int/Home/index.htm)**
**James Cook University (ludo.jcu.edu.au/ece/JCUMetSat/)**
**Kochi University (weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/index-e.html)**
**UCAR Satellite Page (www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/)**

## Archive Satellite Imagery

**NRL Tropical Cyclone Page (www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html)**
**FNMOC Tropical Cyclone Page (152.80.49.216/tc-bin/tc_home.cgi)**
**CIMSS Tropical Cyclones (cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/tropic.html)**
**NOAA Operational Special Events Archive (www.osei.noaa.gov)**

## Archive Satellite Imagery

**NCDC Online Hurricane Images (www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/hsei/hsei.pl?directive=welcome)**
**NCDC GOES Archive Site (cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/GOESBrowser/goesbrowser)**
**NASA Remote Sensing Data (rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/)**
**NASA MODIS Image Gallery (rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/)**
**Johns Hopkins University Hurricane Images (fermi.jhuapl.edu/hurr/index.html)**

## Satellite Ocean Surface Winds

**NOAA MOST Ocean Surface Winds: QuikScat, SSM/I (manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov)**
**RSS QuikScat Page (www.ssmi.com/qscat/qscat_browse.html)**

## Tropical Cyclone Intensity Products

**CIMSS AMSU Tropical Cyclone Page (amsu.ssec.wisc.edu)**
**CIRA AMSU Tropical Cyclone Page (www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/tropic/amsustrm.asp)**
**NASA AMSU Tropical Cyclone Page (pm-esip.nsstc.nasa.gov/cyclone/)**
**SAB Position and Intensity Page (www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/positions.html)**

## Satellite Rainfall Products

**SAB Tropical Cyclone Rainfall (www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trap-img.html)**
**CIRA Central America Rainfall Estimates (www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/sica/main.html)**

## Numerical Weather Prediction

**NCEP Environmental Modeling Center (www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov) **
*****NCEP Models Caribbean (www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/index_carib.shtml)**
*****NCEP Models Pacific (www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/index_npac.shtml)**
**HPC Model Diagnostics (www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/model2.shtml)**
**NOAA Wavewatch III Model (polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_text.html)**

## Numerical Weather Prediction

**UCAR Numerical Models (www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/model/)**
**Fleet Numerical Weather Maps (https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/)**
**Environment Canada Model Page (weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/charts/index_e.html)**
**COLA Weather Forecasts (wxmaps.org/pix/forecasts.html)**
**Japan Global Model (ddb.kishou.go.jp/grads.html)**
**European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (www.ecmwf.int)**

## Numerical Weather Prediction

**Unisys Weather Page (weather.unisys.com)**
**College of DuPage Weather (weather.cod.edu/forecast/)**
**NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html)**
**Florida State University Models Page (moe.met.fsu.edu/tcgengifs/)**
**NCEP Ensembles Page (wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/ens/index.html)**
**Climate Diagnostic Center Ensembles (www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/images/ens/ens.html)**

## Numerical Weather Prediction

**University of Utah Ensembles (www.met.utah.edu/jhorel/html/)**
**Experimental CHIPS model (wind.mit.edu/%7Eemanuel/storm.html)**

## Education and Preparedness

**Tropical Prediction Center (www.nhc.noaa.gov)**
**Tropical Cyclone FAQ (www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html)**
**NWS Hurricane Awareness (www.weather.gov/os/hurricane/index.shtml)**
**NOAA Hurricane Preparedness (hurricanes.noaa.gov)**
**NOAA Natural Disaster Brochures (www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/hurricbro.html)**
**COMET’s Hurricane Strike! (www.meted.ucar.edu/loginForm.php?urlPath=hurrican#)**

## Emergency Management Sites

**Federal Emergency Management Agency (www.fema.gov)**
**American Red Cross (www.redcross.org)**

## National Weather Services

**World Meteorological Organization (www.wmo.ch/index-en.html)**
**Antigua and Barbuda Meteorological Services (www.antiguamet.gov.ag)**
**Australia Bureau of Meteorology (www.bom.gov.au)**
**Bahamas Department of Meteorology (www.bahamasweather.org.bs)**
**Bangladesh Meteorological Department (www.bangladeshonline.com/bmd/)**
**Barbados Meteorological Service (www.agriculture.gov.bb/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=1150)**

## National Weather Services

**Belize Meteorological Service (www.hydromet.gov.bz)**
**Bermuda Weather (www.weather.bm)**
**Brazil Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (www.inmet.gov.br)**
**Brunei Meteorological Service (www.bruneiweather.com.bn)**
**Met. Service of Canada (www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca)**
**Cayman Islands Weather (www.weather.gov.ky)**
**China Meteorological Administration (www.cma.gov.cn)**

## National Weather Services

**Colombia Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (www.ideam.gov.co)**
**Cook Islands Meteorological Service (www.cookislands.pacificweather.org)**
**Costa Rica Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (www.imn.ac.cr)**
**Cuba Instituto de Meteorologia***** *****(www.met.inf.cu)**
**Dominica Meteorological Service (www.meteo.dm)**
**Dominican Republic Oficina Nacional de Meteorologia** **(www.onamet.gov.do/onamet/frameset.htm)**

## National Weather Services

**El Salvador Servicio National de Estudios Territoriales (www.snet.gob.sv)**
**Fiji Meteorological Service (www.met.gov.fj)**
**Meteo France French Polynesia (www.meteo.pf)**
**Meteo France La Reunion (www.meteo.fr/temps/domtom/La_Reunion/)**
**Meteo France Lesser Antilles (www.meteo.gp)**
**Meteo France New Caledonia (www.meteo.nc)**
**Guatemala Instituto Nacional De Sismologia, Vulcanología, Meteorología E Hidrologia** **(www.insivumeh.gob.gt)**

## National Weather Services

**Servicio Meteorol****ó****gico Nacional de Honduras (www.smn.gob.hn)**
**Hong Kong, The Observatory (www.info.gov.hk/hko/contente.htm)**
**India Meteorological Department (www.imd.ernet.in)**
**Indonesia Badan Meteorologi Dan Geofisika (www.bmg.go.id)**
**Meteorological Service Jamaica (www.metservice.gov.jm/index.asp)**
**Japan Meteorological Agency (www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html)**

## National Weather Services

**Korea Meteorological Administration (web.kma.go.kr/engl/index.jps)**
**Serviços Meteorológicos de Macau** **(www.smg.gov.mo/e_index.php)**
**Madagascar Meteorological Service (www.meteo-madagascar.net)**
**Malaysian Meteorological Service (www.kjc.gov.my)**
**Maldives Department of Meteorology (www.meteorology.gov.mv)**
**Mauritius Meteorological Service (metservice.intnet.mu)**

## National Weather Services

**Mexico Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (smn.cna.gob.mx/SMN.html)**
**Mozambique Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (www.inam.gov.mz)**
**Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (www.dmh.gov.mm)**
**Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (www.knmi.nl)**
**Meteorological Service Netherlands Antilles (www.meteo.an)**

## National Weather Services

**Meteorological Service of New Zealand (www.metservice.co.nz)**
**Nicaragua Instituto Nicaraguenese de Estudios Territoriales (www.ineter.gob.ni)**
**Niue Meteorological Service (informet.net/niuemet/niuemet.html)**
**Oman Department of Meteorology (www.met.gov.om)**
**Pakistan Meteorological Department (www.met.gov.pk)**

## National Weather Services

**Hidro Meteorología, ETESA, República de Panamá (www.hidromet.com.pa/en/index.htm)**
**Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph)**
**Portugal Meteorological Service (www.meteo.pt)**
**St. Lucia Meteorological Service (www.slumet.gov.lc)**
**Samoa Meteorology Division (www.meteorology.gov.ws)**
**Seychelles Meteorological Services (www.pps.gov.sc/meteo/)**

## National Weather Services

**Meteorological Service Singapore (app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/category_sub.asp?cid=13)**
**Solomon Islands Meteorological Service (www.met.gov.sb)**
**Spain Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (www.inm.es)**
**Sri Lanka Department of Meteorology (www.meteo.slt.lk)**
**Taiwan Central Weather Bureau (http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V5e/index.htm)**
**Tanzania Meteorological Agency (www.meteo.go.tz)**

## National Weather Services

**Thailand Meteorological Department (www.tmd.go.th/index.php)**
**Tonga Meteorological Service (www.mca.gov.to/Met/)**
**Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (http://www.tntmet.gov.tt/)**
**United Kingdom Meteorological Office (www.metoffice.gov.uk)**
**Vanuatu Meteorological Service (pi-gcos.org/vanuatu/default.htm)**
**Servicio Meteorología de la Aviación, Venezuela (www.meteorologia.mil.ve)**

## National Weather Services

**Vietnam Hydro-Meteorological Service (www.nchmf.gov.vn)**

## Ocean Data Sites

**National Data Buoy Center (www.ndbc.noaa.gov)**
**NOAA Nowcoast Data (nowcoast.noaa.gov)**
**PIRATA Data Buoy Site (www.pmel.noaa.gov/pirata/display.html)**
**TOGA Data Buoy Site (www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/disdel/disdel.html****)**
**National Ocean Service Tides Online (tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov)**
**NCEP Daily SST Analysis (polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/)**

## Ocean Data Sites

**Naval Oceanographic Office SST/Tropical Cyclone Products (https://www.navo.navy.mil/ops.htm) **
**Hurricane Maximum Potential Intensity Maps (wxmaps.org/pix/hurpot.html)**
**AOML Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential (www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/cyclone/data)**

## Other Useful Sites

**COMET Meteorological Education and Traning (www.meted.ucar.edu)**
**Global Guide to Tropical Cyclone Forecasting (www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/pubs/tcguide/globa_guide_intro.htm)**
**Hurricane Research Division (www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd)**
**FNMOC Public Products (https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC)**

## Other Useful Sites

**CPC Intraseasonal Oscillation Page (www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/intraseasonal/index.html)**
**NCEP Ship call sign names (www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/qap/smstats/platnames/)**
**NWS Meteorological Station Lookup Site (www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml)**
**Cyclone Phase Analysis (moe.met.fsu.edu/cyclonephase/)**
*****NOAA TC Genesis Products (www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/genesis.html)**

## Other Useful Sites

**Mexico/Central America/South America PIBALS (www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/pacs/realtlist.shtml)**
**Pan American Climate Sounding Network (www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/pacs/)**
**FSL Rawinsonde Archive (raob.fsl.noaa.gov)**
**FSL National Mesonet Page (www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mesonet/)**
**UGSG Caribbean Rainfall Site (pr.water.usgs.gov/index.html)**

## Other Useful Sites

**NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov)**
**NASA QuikSCAT Site (winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/index.cfm)**
**NASA Aqua Mission (aqua.nasa.gov)**
**NASA Terra Mission (terra.nasa.gov)**
**GOES-R program Office (osd.goes.noaa.gov)**
**NPOESS Program Office (www.ipo.noaa.gov)**
**Mexican Radar Data (smn.cna.gob.mx/radares/radares.html)**

## Sites With Lists of Links

**Tropical Prediction Center (www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutlinks.html)**
**WeatherNet Weather Sites (cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/servers.html)**
**NWA Satellite Server Links (www.nwas.org/committees/rs/nwasat.html)**