Related Links

• The Snow Booklet: A guide to the science, climatology, and measurement of snow in the United States Nolan J. Doesken; Arthur Judson
  • ISBN #0-9651056-2-8 (2nd Edition)
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    Colorado Climate Center, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1371
• Weekly snow depth maps of Minnesota
• What is El-Nino?
• National Weather Service Snow Measurement Guidelines
• National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado
  • NSIDC Education Resources
  • Questions and Answers about Snow: where to learn why snow is white or how much snow covered North America in 1973.
  • Snow Fact Sheet
  • Snow Glossary
  • Have Snow Shovel, Will Travel: a pamphlet that describes the history of snow removal efforts in the United States and also discusses some memorable snowstorms, snowstorm safety, and the snowiest cities in the country.
• WeatherNet is a non-profit service sponsored by The Weather Underground at the University of Michigan providing access to thousands of forecasts, images
• Current US snow cover from the WeatherNet's Weather Maps page.
• Snow resources and activities. The Teel family in Alaska has put together a very nice collection of activities and information about snow/
• Snowman Unit activity from the Minnetonka, Minnesota School District
• A teacher in Maine experimented with mailing snow.
• Arctic Bites are selections of poetry, Inuit writings, and newspaper accounts of factual incidents on life in the Arctic.
• WWW Links for Snow Hydrology.
• Investigate the effect of seasonal snow cover on the Carbon Dioxide cycle in a terrestrial ecosystem (advanced stuff).
• National Weather Service Weather Calculator
• Photographic images of snow from Ibby's Garden
• Caltech Physics Department has been making snow crystals in the lab and is featuring their project at their website. Visit it at: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~kgl/gallery.html
• River Systems and Meterology Group includes a NEXRAD effort to estimate snow cover.

• Sun and Moon Data Find the time of sun rise and set and moon rise and set for your community for any day of the year
• Time Service Department of the US Naval Observatory.
• Astronomical Applications Data Online
• National Climatic Data Center
• Environment Online - Climate Change A series of pages describing factors contributing to global climate change
• USA Today Weather
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Duluth, MN
• Consulting Minnesota Meteorologist Bruce Watson Bruce Watson is a well known Twin Cities meteorologist whose consuming passion is meteorology. He is a frequent guest on TV and he works with WCCO in the production of a weather calendar. His web site includes some worthy information on our weather.
• Earth View- View the earth with a live, real-time, satellite image. Set the parameters withwhich to view it.
• Earth Watch- Live weather conditions on demand
• TerraServer- Find aerial photographs of your community or almost anywhere across the continent