Oceanography

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
• An introduction to marine science.
• New maps of the ocean floor -- much more detailed than any before. Check out the last image first to get an idea of how more detail these maps include.
• Another link to the new map of the ocean floor.
• New seafloor images of the U.S. continental margins.
• Hot spots and mantle plumes.
• Ocean studies in Hawaii!
• An extensive oceanography site for kids - but with lots of information.
• Deep ocean hydrothermal vents.
• Ocean Planet home page.
• Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
• Get to know our oceans -- has a great map of ocean topography (did you know the ocean floor has mountains and valleys?).
• The SeaWiFs Project home page.
• NOAA's Marine Geology and Geophysics Division.

Meteorology

• Introductory meteorology page.
• Weather Forecast Links

  • WeatherNet -- forecasts anywhere.
  • Intellicast's weather.
  • The Weather Channel -- yet another good place to get weather forecasts.
  • Yahoo Weather Home -- I just like saying "Yahoo!" because I'm from Texas, but this is also a good place to get weather forecasts.
  • Here's a satellite weather map of cloud cover over the SE states. You can follow this link to find a satellite weather map of your region.
  • Why stop with weather in the U.S.? This site has up-to-the-minute satellite images of global cloud distribution. This is a cool site. Click on Composite Images, then on the Global Montage icon. Or, if you have a very fast connection, click on one of the rotating globe links.

  • Interactive Celsius / Fahrenheit conversions.
    Here are the formulas: C = 0.55 (F - 32); and F = (C x 1.8) + 32.

    Or, you can estimate the Celsius/Fahrenheit conversion using these numbers:

    -10 C = 14 F		0 F = -18 C
    0 C = 32 F		10 F = -12 C
    5 C = 41 F		20 F = -7 C
    10 C = 50 F		32 F = 0 C
    15 C = 59 F		40 F = 4 C
    20 C = 68 F		50 F = 10 C
    25 C = 77 F		60 F = 16 C
    30 C = 86 F		70 F = 21 C
    35 C = 95 F		80 F = 27 C
    40 C = 104 F		90 F = 32 C
    45 C = 113 F		100 F = 38 C

    Remember that 10 C = 50 F; and note that for every 5 degree change in Celsius, the Fahrenheit temperature goes up or down by 9 degrees.
    For every 10 degree change in Fahrenheit, the Celsius temperature goes up or down by about 6 degrees.

• The Daily Planet --everything you wanted to know about meteorology.
• The El Nino home page.
• Another El Nino site.
• An explanation of El Nino for kids.
• The National Weather Service
• NOAA's National Climatic Data Center -- a clearing house for weather data of all kinds.
• Solar and upper atmosphere data.
• Hurricanes and storm surges.

Astronomy

• Introductory astronomy page.
• NASA's Observatorium.
• NASA's Welcome to the Planets page -- a great source for information about the planets, and the best of NASA's images from outer space.
• Earth and Moon viewer.
• A tour of the nine planets
• NASA's home page.
• The Jet Propulsion Laboratory home page -- lots of information about the hottest developments in space science (which often originate at the JPL).
• Spin around in virtual reality on Mars!
• A galaxy of astronomy links.
• Solar and upper atmosphere data.
• Live from Mars!
• Black holes and neutron stars.
• The News at NASA.
• The Lunar Prospector -- first new mission to the Moon in 25 years.
• What does it look like when an asteroid impacts Earth?

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