Existing UCAR EO content: Climate, Modeling, & Weather

1. Windows to the Universe
1. Climate and Global Change
1. What is Climate?
2. What Controls the Climate?
3. Climates of the Past (Paleoclimates)
4. Effects of Climate Change Today
5. What is "Carbon Neutral"?
6. Modeling the Future
7. Atmospheric Missions
8. Climate News
9. Climate Image and Multimedia Gallery
10. Climate Web
11. Climate Crossword Puzzle
2. Weather
1. Serious Weather Conditions
1. Hurricanes
2. Thuderstorms
3. Tornadoes
2. Precipitation
1. Hail
2. Rain
3. Sleet and Freezing Rain
4. Snow
3. The Earth's Atmosphere
1. Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
1. The Troposphere
1. Atmospheric Chemistry of Earth's Troposphere
   1. Greenhouse Gases
   2. The Greenhouse Effect
   3. Ozone in the Troposphere
2. The Stratosphere
   1. Ozone in the Stratosphere
3. The Mesosphere
4. The Thermosphere
   1. Thermosphere Constituents (interactive graph)
   2. The Ionosphere
      1. The Sun's Effect on the Ionosphere
      2. Regions of the Ionosphere
      3. Ionosphere Constituents (interactive graph)
5. The Exosphere
6. Graphics
   1. Temperature profile of Earth's atmosphere
   2. Phenomena at various altitudes in the atmosphere
   3. Ionosphere layers in context of the atmosphere
2. Clouds
   1. Cloud Types
      1. Noctilucent (polar mesospheric) Clouds
      2. Cumulus
      3. Cumulonimbus
      4. Cirrus
      5. Cirrostratus
      6. Cirrocumulus
      7. Altostratus
      8. Altocumulus
      9. Stratus
      10. Stratocumulus
      11. Nimbostratus
4. Water
1. The Water Cycle
2. Evaporation
3. Transpiration
5. Teacher Resources
   1. Lesson Plans and Activities for the Classroom
      1. Atmosphere Graphing Activities
         1. Temperature and the Earth's Atmosphere
         2. Reading Graphs with a Logarithmic Scale
         3. Graphs and the Composition of Earth's Thermosphere
         4. Graphs and the Composition of Earth’s Ionosphere
      2. Create Your Own Cloud
      3. Create Your Own Fog
      4. Latent Heat and Clouds
      5. Three Clouds Activity
6. Scientists in Schools
2. Project LEARN
3. Web Weather for Kids
4. Kids' Crossing
5. GLOBE clouds module
   1. file:///K:/GLOBE/OnlineRefreshers/clouds/runversionClouds/START.html
6. Weather & Climate Basics (NCAR E&O)
7. Distance Learning
1. COMET (Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training)
   1. MetEd (Meteorology Education & Training)
2. Climate Discovery courses (NCAR Online Education)
1. Introduction to Earth's Climate
   1. What is Climate & An Overview of Earth System Science
   2. Climate Science: How Do We Study Climate?
   3. Paleoclimate: The Ghost of Climate Past
      1. The Ghost of Climate Past
      2. Case Study 1: Tree Rings and Climate
         1. "Build a Tree" Dendrochronology Activity
         2. Align Tree Ring Cores Activity
      3. Case Study 2: Paleoclimates and Pollen
   4. Earth's Energy Balance & Solar Energy Input
2. Earth System Science: A Climate Change Perspective
3. Understanding Climate Change Today
8. UCAR Communications
1. Weather & Climate Glossary
9. Digital Libraries
1. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
2. Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
10. Diversity
1. SOARS
2. Spanish language Windows to the Universe
3. Bilingual Science Teachers Annual Resources Symposium (BSTARS)
11. Climate Discovery Teachers Guide
12. SkyMath
13. In a New Light Climate and Weather Teachers Workshop Guide
14. Organizations/Groups/Facilities/Projects
1. GLOBE program
2. NCAR Visualization Laboratory
3. Biocomplexity Project (APOL)