http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/cyclone/data/

At this website, NOAA's Physical Oceanography Division illustrates its research dealing with the predictions of sudden tropical cyclone intensification through the monitoring of the upper ocean thermal structure. Students can learn about the utilization of a two-layer reduced gravity ocean model to determine the relationship between the dynamic height and the mass field of the ocean. Scientists can find out how, through the examination of seven tropical cyclone basins, the division found in an association between the tropical cyclone intensity and a raise in the value of tropical cyclone heat potentials (TCHP). After viewing the examples of the intensification for three hurricanes and one typhoon, users can find daily maps of the latest TCHP, sea surface temperatures, sea height anomalies, and more. Scientists looking for long term statistics can find weekly maps and data from October 1992 to the present. [RME]

http://grads.iges.org/home.html

This website features the work of two groups: the Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) and the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA). Both organizations were formed to improve the "understanding and prediction of Earth's climate variations and to share both the fruits of this research and the tools necessary to carry out this research with society as a whole." The Weather and Climate Data link features numerous maps and animations of the analyses of current conditions, weather forecasts, and climate outlooks for the world. Users can download GrADS, the interactive tool used to access, manipulate, and visualize earth science data. Researchers, educators, and students seeking meteorological information and maps dealing with topics such as soil moisture, pressure, and the maximum potential hurricane intensities will want to visit this website.

http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/

A division of the Berkeley Laboratory, the Advanced Light Source (ALS) "is a national user facility that generates intense light for scientific and technological research." Students and educators can learn how ALS, with the use of one of the world's brightest sources of ultraviolet and soft X-ray beams and the world's first third generation synchrotron light source in its energy range, studies the properties of materials, trace metals, and the structures of atoms and molecules. The website features scientific highlights from the facility including its study of why alcohol and water don't mix. Scientists can find the technical specification of the storage ring, photon, and beamline parameters for the many microscopes at the facility. Visiting the User's Guide, qualified researchers can also find out how to become an ALS user. [RME]

http://a103.chem.ubc.ca/

Located within the Chemistry Department at the University of British Columbia, the Laboratory of Michael Blades studies the "development, characterization, and application of optical and mass spectroscopic methods for chemical analysis." Visitors can download posters to learn about the group's work involving two and three laser ion trap mass spectrometry and fluorescence spectroscopy. The website discusses the group's creation of atmospheric pressure plasma on a chip as a new way of forming an analytical microplasma. Researchers can also download many of the group's publications related to its work with Raman Spectroscopy. [RME]

http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/~heiney/group/group.html#cmccat

With the use of x-ray diffraction, Paul Heiney's research group at the University of Pennsylvania studies the properties of materials with unusual structural order. Researchers can learn about the group's development of a strand oven to pull single-orientation discotic strands appropriate for x-ray diffraction analysis and their ability to differentiate between the cores and tails of discotic molecules. The website also discusses the group's work with colloids and fullerenes. Visitors can find numerous abstracts for many of the groups' publications including two reports titled Liquid Crystals with Large Induced Tilt Angle and Small Layer Contraction and Network Growth in the Flocculation of Concentrated Silica Dispersions. [RME]

http://alice.web.cern.ch/Alice/AliceNew/

This website features the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) collaboration's aim to "study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where the formation of a new phase of matter, the quark-gluon plasma, is expected." The Public section of the website features the construction plan for the detector located at CERN, which will be optimized for heavy-ion physics. Visitors can learn how the collaboration, consisting of one-thousand members from twenty-seven countries, will use the Large Hadron Collidor (LHC) to create quark-gluon plasma. Students and educators will find instructional materials dealing with the concept of quark matter and its presence during the Big Bang. Although the Collaboration section of the website is designed primarily for those working closely with the project, visitors can find technical reports and presentations given by the group. [RME]

http://www.uib.no/jgofs/

The Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) examines the carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean in order to understand the processes influencing the fluxes of carbon and associated biogenic elements and the exchanges among the atmosphere, sea floor and continental boundaries. The website discusses JGOFS's aim to achieve the ability to predict human impacts on climate change on a global scale. Visitors can find numerous datasets associated with JGOFS's core parameters and cruises for the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans. After downloading the Implementation Plan, scientists can find information about JGOFS's surveys, studies, data quality, and more. Researchers will also find various publications including the Report Series and Special Issues in Peer-Reviewed Journals. [RME]

http://www.atsr.rl.ac.uk/index.shtml

By creating infrared images of the Earth with a spatial resolution of one kilometer, the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) instruments are beneficial for land, atmosphere, water, and Cryosphere scientific studies. After learning about the sensitivities and accuracies of the ATSR instruments, students and educators can view a presentation describing the usefulness of the collected data. The website provides abundant information dealing with data products, documentation, calibrations, validations, and more. Researchers can discover how to obtain ATSR data and can view various Average Sea Surface Temperature (ASST) maps. Everyone can enjoy samples of images collected including the Grain Coast in Western Africa and cloud formations around the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic. [RME]