ANIMATIONS/MOVIES to supplement
A World of Weather
(NOTE: Most movies are mpeg - they
have been tested in Netscape Navigator Gold using VMPEG Version 1.7 downloaded
from www.mpeg1.de/windows95.html)
First, some great movie pages
(some from these pages are referenced, by their relevant chapter, below)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
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Florida T'storms (12 hr at 1 frame/min, 4.9 MB)
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Florida T'storms (3 hr at 1 frame/min, 1.5 MB, nice convection and sea breeze)
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Florida T'storms (1 hr at 1 frame/min, 850 KB, gust and sea-breeze fronts)
- Non-classic
outflow boundary easily seen on 7-16-97 visible loop of
supercell off Delaware (see
explanation )
- Florida sea-breeze T'storms
- Visible of sea-breeze front along the
North Carolina coast
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Summer thunderstorms in Mountain West on 6-14-96 (13 MB)
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Kansas thunderstorms on 5-31-96
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Missouri thunderstorms on 5-7-96 (13 MB)
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Thunderstorms along Red River (8 MB)
- Computer
simulation of two microbursts
- Three movies of lightning
from space
- MCC life cycle : MCC dissipates in
Missouri, new MCC develops in Kansas next night (courtesy Plymouth
State College)
- MCC decays, revealing a mesoscale vorticity center:
JAVA
IR loop ,
JAVA
Visible loop
- Supercell thunderstorm forms along
a squall line
- March 1-2, 1997, flooding in Ohio Valley:
Infrared Loop,
Vapor Loop
Chapter 10
- February 22-23, 1998, Tornadic thunderstorms in Florida:
Colorized Infrared loop (QT - 2M)
- May 27, 1997, Tornado hits Jarrell, TX (QT):
Colorized Infrared loop,
Radar loop,
Video of the tornado
- May 25, 1997:
Hook echo on Radar indicates tornadic supercell near Wellington Lake, KS
- March 1, 1997, Tornadic thunderstorms in Arkansas:
Infrared loop,
Visible loop
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Tornadic thunderstorms in Baltimore-Washington area, 7-17-96 (5 MB)
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Tornadic Supercell east of Tampa, FL, 12-7-96 (4 MB)
Chapter 11
- GOES
Project selection of hurricane movies
- Hurricane
Allison (June 1995): IR
- Hurricane Andrew (August 1992)
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Movie 1: IR, follows from FL to LA
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Movie 2: IR, 3MB, follows from FL to LA, 7Z 8-23 to 19Z 8-27
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Movie 3: IR, follows into FL, but wide view
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Movie 4: IR, follows into FL
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Movie 5: IR, follows into LA
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Hurricane Bertha (1996) comes ashore: IR
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Hurricane Bertha (1996) over New England: IR (4 MB)
- Hurricane Bob (August 1991): IR
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Hurricane Edouard (1996): IR (3 MB)
- Hurricane
Erin (August 1995): IR
- Hurricanes Fran
and Hortense (1996), Luis and Marilyn (1995) : Selection of movies
- Hurricane
Felix (August 1995): IR
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Hurricane Hugo (September 1989): 3D flyby of the eye (2.1M QT)
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Hurricane Luis (3MB, rapid scan vis,
1 frame/min from 1940Z to 2225Z, 9-6-95)
- Hurricane
Luis (and friends) (August/September 1995): IR
- Hurricane
Marilyn (September 1995): IR
- Hurricane Opal (September/October 1995)
- Hurricane
Roxanne (October 1995): IR
- Saharan Dust transported
across Atlantic Ocean during Jul-Sep 1988
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15