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Collaborating Units & Programs

• Climate System Science
• The Department of Geological Sciences (DGS)
• Hydrogeology & Environmental Geology
• Center for Sustainable Water Resources
• Environmental Science Institute
• Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy (CIEEP)
• Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
• The Ranger and Lonestar Supercomputers
• Office of Sponsored Projects (PRF) (PIRE Guide) (IRC)
• Center for Space Research
• Center for Energy and Environmental Resources
• Air Quality Research Program: Overview
• The Center for Research in Water Resources
• Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
• Marine Science Institute

Online Journals

• UT link to the Web of Science (ISI Web of Knowledge) (or here )
• Most Highly Cited
• UT library online journals
• My online AGU journals; Author Resource Center; Publication Fees
• EOS
• Manuscript preparation

Online Forms

• Where is my traveler?
• Personnel Policies
• JSG DGS Help Desk
• Online time sheets
• Doodle

Useful Links

• Austin
• Austin’s weather
• City of Austin – A Brief History of Austin’s Floods
  The great floods from 1900 to 1991 here in Austin took many lives and caused millions of dollars of damage.
• The Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS)
• Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) – www. tceq .state.tx.us
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• Cielo Wind Power
• AIRNow – Texas

Other Universities

• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• UCAR Member Institutions (UCAR Meetings )
• University of Arizona (Dept of Hydrology and Water Resources )
• Texas A&M University (Dept of Atmospheric Sciences , Dept of Oceanography )
• University of Houston (Dept of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences )

Research Centers

• National Center for Atmospheric Research Annual CCSM Workshop
• National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
• Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
• NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Earth and Sun
  • Earth-Sun Exploration Division
  • Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO)
  • The Laboratory for Atmospheres (Code 613 Mission)
  • Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (Code 614 Mission )
    • The Hydrological Sciences Branch (formerly Code 974)
• China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
• The Met Office
• Hadley Centre: Hadley Centre for climate prediction and research
• British Antarctic Survey
• The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
• The Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C⁴)
• Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC)
• Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)
• Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center (GEST)
• UCLA Institute of the Environment
• Hong Kong Institute for the Environment

Research Programs

• Climate and Global Dynamics
• Climate, People, and Environment Program
• Air Quality Research Program
• Hydroclimate & Impacts Research
• SAHRA – Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas
• The GAPP program (GEWEX [Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment] America Prediction Project)
• NOAA Climate Prediction Program for the Americas (CPPA)
• GEWEX, Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
  • GSWP2 Results Website
• GEWEX-MPP, GEWEX Modeling and Prediciton Panel
• NASA Earth Science Enterprise Water and Energy Cycle
• GLASS, Global Land Atmosphere System
• GLACE, Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment
• IGBP, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• IGBP-BAHC, IGBP Biosphere Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle
• ILEAPS, Integrated Land Ecosystem – Atmosphere Processes Study
• WCRP, World Climate Research Program
• Global Circulation of the Atmosphere
• NCAR BEACHON Project

Global Change Data Sets and Data Models

• Global Change Master Directory
• IPCC Model Output Data Archive
• R-ArcticNet – A Database of Pan-Arctic River Discharge
• Aiguo Dai’s Precipitation Data ( http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/ )
• C. Willmott’s Precipitation Data ( http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/ )
• Global land cover characteristics data base [For EPA Project]
• GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP) Data Management (GAPP Data Access)
• AmeriFlux Dataset
• North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) Homepage [For NOAA Monsoon Project]
• OptIPuter (A powerful distributed cyberinfrastructure to support data-intensive scientific research and collaboration)
• MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) Browse Images [For NASA Snow Project]
• MODIS/Terra 8-day L3 Global 0.05 Deg CMG
• Snow and Land Ice Dataset
• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Products and Services
• Climate outlook (prediction) for the U.S. and additional climate products
• National Climatic Data Center
• The High Plains Regional Climate Center
• Midwestern Regional Climate Center

Research Announcements

• NASA Research Opportunities (NSPIRES) (Open Solicitations)
• NASA (NEWS NRA) (Proposal online site) (SYS-EYFUS)
• NASA-funded proposals submitted to (NN-H-04-Z-YS-008-N) Modeling, Analysis and Prediction, Climate Variability and Change
• NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS) Funded Projects
• NOAA OGP Grants CPPA
• International Polar Year
• NCAR Advanced Study Program – Graduate Student Visitor Program

Professional Organizations

• American Geophysical Union AGU Scheduler – Login AGU FAll 2007
• American Meteorological Society

Land, Weather and Climate Models

• Community Land Model Diagnostics
• Weather, Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model
• Real Time Mesoscale Meteorological Forecasts
• USDA Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin
• Community Climate System Model (CCSM )
• Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS)
• AMIP Home Page ( AMIP)
• Climate Model Grids
• John Houghton UCI Lectures Feb 2003
• Land Use Model and The Project Gigalopolis

Weather and Climate Books and Miscellaneous

• Click here
• Nanjing Institute of Meteorology ’80 Class Reunion Web Site
• http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Photo_shows/Photo_shows.html
• Yu Zeng
• Central Southern China Electric Power Design Institute
• WaterLab
• YunWu80
• Junli Yang
• Zhiming Gong
• Guangli Song
• Keyu Liu
• Sun Zi Bing Fa (Art of War)
• China Soul
• Mission in Translation
• WenKu
• LaoZi
• Feng Bingcheng
• Yuan Zhiming
• The Official U.S. Time
• Foreign Exchange Currency Converter
• Driving Directions
• MapQuest
• InputKing 在线中文输入系统
• Learning Chinese Online
• GetDefensive.com
• UT Defensive Driving ( http://www.utexas.edu/police/defensive.html )
• Doubletree Club Hotel Austin-University Area
• Chinese Visa

Personal Pages for Selected Scientists

• Robert E. Dickinson
• Ann Henderson-Sellers (Climate Futures Publications http://tinyurl.com/AnnH-S-isi )(Women as witches) (iPILPS)
• William J. Shuttleworth (or 2001 AGU Hydrology Section Award or SAHRA)
• Roger C. Bales
• Soroosh Sorooshian or CHRS or here
• Gerald North
• Alan Robock
• Filippo Giorgi
• Gondon Bonan
• Andy Pitman
• P. C. D. Milly
• Congbin Fu (1)  Congbin Fu (2) (START-TEA) [see here for more]
• James Hansen (http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/authors/jhansen.html)
• USC Earth Sciences (Lowell Stott)
• Dr. Kenneth A Rahn (http://karws.gso.uri.edu/)
• Yang Zhang
• Ying Fan
• Jay Famiglietti
• Eric F. Wood
• Dennis Lettenmaier
• Kenneth E. Mitchell (NOAH)
• Yongkang Xue
• Hanqin Tian
• Michael A. Huston
• Minghua Zhang
• Renyi Zhang
• Ping Yang
• Fuqing Zhang
• Ping Chang
• R. Saravanan
• Fei Chen
• Steve Running
• Roger A. Pielke, Sr.
• Roni Avissar
• Daniel J. Jacob *
• Ranga B. Myneni
• Elfatih A.B. Eltahir
• Dara Entekhabi
• Ana P. Barros
• A. Scott Denning (or)
• Jon Foley
• Paul Dirmeyer
• Chris Paola
• Xiwu Zhan
• Jun Yu
• Andrew Dessler’s Blog
• SciGug: A science blog with Eric Berger
• RealClimate: Climate Science from Climate Scientists
• International Professionals for the Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences (ipaces)

Glossaries

• Remote sensing
  • The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) spectral characteristics and vegetation indices
  • MODIS BRDF/Albedo product, datasets and user guide
  • Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR)
• Fundamentals of Physical Geography
• Online English Pronunciation
• Pronounce Names

Jobs

• UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs
• Climate, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology Jobs in North America
• Hydrogeology, Hydrology & Water Resources Jobs
• Employment Resources