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CLIMATE STATIONS & AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS / INFORMATION (but by no means all!)
A distinct lack of smiles amongst our walking group on a very wet walk up Pen Y Fan in the Brecon Beacons, March 2008 BEDFORDSHIRE Bedford - Clifton - Sandy (new) BERKSHIRE Crowthorne - Maidenhead - Reading - Thatcham BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Iver - Newport Pagnell CAMBRIDGESHIRE Ely CHESHIRE Chester CORNWALL Bude - Lands End - Newquay (new) - Penzance - Polruan - Redruth - St Ives (new) CUMBRIA Alston - Brampton - Howhill - Lorton - Moor House - Portinscale, Keswick (updated) DERBYSHIRE Buxton - Newhall DEVON Bovey Tracey - Bradninch (updated) - Holcombe - Haytor - Lundy (new) - Plymouth - Stoke Gabriel - Torquay - Uplyme DORSET Weymouth DURHAM Copley - Newton Aycliffe ESSEX Colchester - Epping GLOUCESTERSHIRE Nailsworth - Selsey, Stroud - Wotton Under Edge GREATER LONDON Hampstead - HAMPSHIRE Chilbolton - Crondall- Isle of Wight HEREFORDSHIRE Hereford HERTFORDSHIRE Royston KENT Canterbury - Faversham - Headcorn - Sittingbourne - Sheerness - Tunbridge Wells LANCASHIRE Gt Marton, Blackpool - Hazelrigg - Leyland - Morecombe LEICESTERSHIRE Mountsorrel MERSEYSIDE Bidston NORFOLK Brancaster - Kings Lynn - Norwich NORTHANTS Pitsford Hall NORTHUMBERLAND Letham Shank NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Calverton - Newark-on-Trent OXFORDSHIRE Goring - Oxford SOMERSET Bristol (Horfield/FIlton)+ (Thornbury)+(Totterdown) - Clevedon - Taunton STAFFORDSHIRE Chesterton - Stoke SUFFOLK Brooms Barn - Ipswich SURREY Reigate - Chipstead Valley - Haslemere - Morden SUSSEX Chichester - Crowborough - Eastbourne - Hastings - Littlehampton - Shoreham - Worthing (new) TEESSIDE Billingham WARWICKSHIRE Wellesbourne WEST MIDLANDS Coventry - Dorridge - Edgbaston - Warstock WILTSHIRE Seend Cleeve WORCESTERSHIRE Alvechurch - Defford - Great Malvern - Redditch - Worcester - YORKSHIRE Farsley - Leeds - Mirfield - Newport - Sheffield - Woodseats - York SCOTLAND Carbost - Cairngorm - Corsock - Eoropie, W Isles - Fair Isle - Pitroddie - Strathspey - Ullapool (new) NORTH WALES Bryncroes, Lleyn- Llansadwrn - Llysfaen - Prestatyn- Ruthin - Snowdon SOUTH WALES Haverfordwest - Llantwit Major - Tegryn, Pembs (updated) - The Hendre, Monmouth NORTHERN IRELAND Armagh - Culbackey CHANNEL ISLANDS Jersey - Guernsey
» UK climate from Met Office » Roger Brugge's UK climate pages
» Daily climate data for 600+ UK stations since 1994 from TuTiempo
» APRSWXNET/CWOP automatic weather stations in the UK from CWOP
» Map of independent UK automatic weather stations from Prodata
» UK Davis stations / WeatherLink IP stations from Davis (new)
» Advice on making your own weather observations from Met Office
» Guide to running and automatic weather station from Andrew Overton


 

INSTRUMENT & SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS & RETAILERS
Waves at Teignmouth, Devon, March 2008

» Aces Electronics - weather station products for both professionals and enthusiasts
» Alana Ecology - based in Shropshire sells wide range of monitoring equipment (updated)
» Barometer World - sells weather instruments (not just barometers!) online & in Devon shop
» Bell Flow Systems - sell average rainfall and general environmental flow monitoring solutions
» Biral - manufacture automatic weather sensors
» Boltek - US based manufacturer of state of the art lightning detection systems
» Campbell Scientific - manufacture automatic weather stations
» Casella - manufacture automatic & manual instruments (updated)
» Dartcom - manufacturers of satellites and remote sensing ground stations
» Davis - manufacture automatic weather stations & associated software
» Delta T Devices - manufacture automatic weather stations & software
» Dorset Weathervanes - produces handcrafted weathervanes on a variety of themes
» Environmental Measurements Ltd - manufacture/distribute met instrumentation
» Fairmount Weather Systems - manufacture a wide range of met. instrumentation
» Findlay Irvine - manufacture automatic weather stations & sensors
» Gill Instruments - produce the largest range of anemometers in the market today
» Heavy Weather - US based seller of weather monitoring equipment & software
» Hydrokit - suppliers of meteorological, surface &ground water monitoring equipment
» Instromet Ltd - manufacture weather monitoring equipment & software
» La Crosse Technology - US based manufacturer of weather monitoring equipment
» Met-Check - manufacture & supply a wide range of weather instrumentation
» Met Engineering Ltd - multi-disciplined engineers specialising in met instrumentation
» Meteotronic - French-based meteorological instrument retailer
» Metspec - provide a range of durable met instrument housings
» Meteorologica - supplier of a range of automatic and manual met. instrumentation
» Mitchell Instruments - supplier of hygrometers, moisture analysers etc
» MovingWeather - supply weather mapping software for animated graphical forecasts
» Muir Matheson Ltd - specialist in onshore and offshore met. instrumentation
» Nationwide Barometers, specialists in barometer parts and the repair of antique barometers
» Omni Instruments - sell and hire a wide range of instrumentation
» Oregon Scientific - manufacture electronic temperature & humidity instruments
» Prodata - resellers of the full range of Davis weather instrumentation
» Rainwise - US based manufacturer of meteorological instruments
» Richard Paul Russell Ltd - manufacture hand-held anemometers & thermometers
» RS Hydro - UK/worldwide supplier/consultancy for met instrumentation (hire+sale)
» Skye Instruments - suppliers of a broad range of environmental monitoring equipment
» Skyview Systems - suppliers of weather monitoring equipment
» Thorn SDS - satellite data reception & environmental data collection products
» Timestep - suppliers of weather satellite equipment
» UK Weather Shop - based in Eastbourne sell wide range of met equipment & books
» Vaisala - manufacture surface & upper air automatic instruments
» Vector Instruments - manufacture weather sensors and associated equipment
» Weather Graphics - weather software for Windows
» WeatherHawk - manufacture automatic weather stations
» Weather Instrument Mart - US based online weather instrument shop
» Weather Shop - US based weather gadget shop
» Weatherweatherweather.co.uk - shop selling automatic weather stations for enthusiasts
» RM Young - manufacture automatic weather stations


UK METEOROLOGICAL COMPANIES
Primroses at Manaton, Dartmoor, March 2008 » Accu Weather UK & Ireland - US met company which took over UK's Online Weather
» Aerospace & Marine International - US company with base in Aberdeen specialising in marine services
» BBC Weather Centre - forecasting service run by the BBC using Met Office forecasts and forecasters
» British Weather Services - consultant meteorologists based in High Wycombe
» Euro Tempest - provides innovative weather risk products for Europe
» Fugro GEOS - supplier of met & oceanographic services for offshore/coastal engineering applications
» Met Office - UK National Met. Service based in Exeter, Devon
» Metcheck - currently based in St Ives they specialise in tailored forecasts for business
» Meteogroup - weather company whose UK base is in London. Formerly PA Weather Centre
» Metra - international subsidiary of the New Zealand Met Service with an office in Wolverhampton
» MetWorks - marine weather services company based in Bracknell, Berkshire
» Noble Denton - marine forecasters & consultants based in London
» North Sea Weather - Providing services to oil/gas, offshore construction & fishing Industries (new)
» Plantsystems - provide consultancy services, forecasts & equipment to the agriculture industry
» Satellite Observing Systems - satellite remote sensing experts based in Surrey
» Scientific & Technical Management Ltd. - met. consultancy run by Richard Pettifer
» The Weather People Ltd. - weather company run by Bill Giles & John Teather
» Weather Commerce - weather company based in Hampshire providing forecasting services
» Weather Consultancy Services - weather company based in Staffordshire
» Weather Intelligence - weather and climate change consultancy company
» Weathercall - premium-rate phone/fax/SMS forecasts provided by iTouch UK Ltd
» Weatherheads - real-time weather, sports & fashion related solutions
» Weathernet - based in Bournemouth provide weather information for insurers
» WeatherQuest - forecasting company based at UEA in Norwich
» WeatherSys - joint venture between Weather Commerce & Seawest New Media Ltd
» Weather Research - specialise in predicting weather impacts on sales
» Weather2 - Glasgowcompany providing content via multi-media, multi-channel info services
» Wiseweather - weather forecasting company based in Brighton
» WNI Weathernews - weather company formerly called Oceanroutes based in Aberdeen
» WSI Europe - weather company based in Birmingham now part of Landmark Comms Inc


 
METEOROLOGY AT UK UNIVERSITIES + ACADEMIC RELATED LINKS
   UNIVERSITY DEPTS / RESEARCH GROUPS
» Aberdeen Physics Department
» Bangor School of Ocean Sciences
» Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre
» Birmingham Sch of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
» Buxton Climate Change Impacts Lab (Univ of Sheffield)
» Cambridge - Centre For Atmospheric Science
» Edinburgh Meteorology Department - CALMet
» Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
» Hertfordshire - Atmospheric Science Research Group
» Imperial College London - Space & Atmospheric Physics
» Leeds Atmos. Chemistry / Inst. for Atmos. Science
» Manchester Metropolitan Cntr for Air Trnspt & Environment
» Univ. of Oxford Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics
» Plymouth Institute of Marine Studies
» Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
» Reading Meteorology Department
» Royal Naval Hydrographic, Met & Oceanographic Training Group, Devonport
» Sheffield University Dept of Geography Climate & Cryosphere Group
» Southampton University Oceanography Centre
» University College London Space & Climate Physics / Climate Extremes
» UEA Environmental Sciences / Climatic Research Unit
» Worcester College Pollen Research Unit
   ACADEMIC RELATED ORGANISATIONS
» Atmospheric, Climate & Environment Info. Prog. - Man Met Univ
» British Atmospheric Data Centre - supplies research data, run by NERC
» British Oceanographic Data Centre - supplies research data, run by NERC
» COST - European cooperation in science/ technical research
» Data Assimilation Research Centre - NERC funded R&D group
» ECMWF - forecast research organisation based in Reading
» EUMETSAT - responsible for launch/operation of met. satellites
» FAAM - Facility for Airborne Atmos Measurements (Met Office & NERC)
» HADOBS - contains links to Met Office Hadley Centre's gridded datasets (new)
» IPCC - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
» NCAS - NERC Centres for Atmospheric Sciences
» NCOF - National Centre for Ocean Forecasting
» UGAMP - UK Univs Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme
» Universities Weather Research Network
» World Meteorological Organisation - United Nations specialised agency
   ACADEMIC JOURNALS & METEOROLOGICAL MAGAZINES
» Atmospheric Science Letters online journal launched in 2000 (new)
» Climate Research published by Inter-Research
» International Journal of Climatology published by Wiley
» International Journal of Meteorology - formerly Journal of Met..
» Meteorological Applications published for the Royal Met. Society
» Weather magazine for members of the Royal Met. Society (updated)
» Weather Eye - a thriving general interest met. magazine
   MET. SOCIETIES & GROUPS
» Climatological Observers Link - founded in 1970 for amateur observers
» Cloud Appreciation Society - for folk who love clouds!
» Cloudobservers - for ex-serving Met Observers/METOC Branch of Royal Navy
» European Meteorological Society - association founded in 1999
» Group for Earth Observation - for weather & earth obs fans
» Irish Meteorological Society - founded in 1982 & based in Dublin
» Remote Imaging Group - group for all interested in satellite imaging
» Royal Meteorological Society - founded in 1850 & based in Reading
» Tornado & Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) - founded in 1974
   MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL
» Campaign for Dark Skies (CfDS) - from the British Astronomical Assoc.
» Greenpeace Climate Change minisite - pages from the campaign group
» Metlink International Weather Project - schools + individuals data exchange
» National Water Archive - includes UK river flow / groundwater level data
» UK Phenology Network - collating all data on Nature's Calendar (updated)


 
JOBS IN THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Clouds above Shaldon, April 2006 » Roger Brugge's Met-Jobs Mailing List - Meteorological and related jobs
» jobs.ac.uk - UK academic and academic related posts
» Met Office Vacancies - current vacancies at the UK's National Met Service
» Earthworks - online jobs database established in 1996
» ECMWF - current vacancies at the ECMWF in Reading
» New Scientist Jobs - large online science jobs database

» BBC Weather Centre - Guide to jobs in meteorology


 
NEWSGROUPS & MISCELLANEOUS LINKS
AJ and I in our kayak on the River Fowey - shame we weren't paddling in synch... July 2006

» UK Tide Times - for the next 5 days from BBC Weather (sourced from UK Hydrographic Office)
» UK Tide Times - tide times and weather for a selection of UK ports from Yachting and Boating World
» UK Tide Times - for next 6 days for a selection of UK ports from Proudman Oceanographic Lab
» WXTide32 - software to calculate tide times for 1970-2037 for 44 British Isles locations
» Atmospheric Optics Site - Les Cowley's fascinating site
» Skiddaw, Lake Dist. - Ann Bowker's excellent weather & photos page
» www.wetroads.co.uk - Lee Chapman's entertaining guide to British fords, watersplashes & tidal roads
» Netweather.tv - a growing site providing forecasts and a host of other weather related information
» UK Weather Information Site - lots of useful information
» The London Weather Station - blog postings & forecasts for London from the Weathergals (new)
» Ant v Dec present the weather. Click here to find out who won (broadcast 29/09/07) care of You Tube
» AvBrief - flight briefing (some info needs subscription) for pilots
» The Weather Calculator - handy unit converter
» Independent Climate Change - climate change articles from the national newspaper
» Wendywindblows - chain of automatic weather stations across the UK
» National Coastwatch Institution - voluntary org set up in 1994 to restore visual watch of UK coast
» On-line barograph - atmospheric pressure at the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington
   WEATHER FORUMS
» uk.sci.weather - sci.geo.meteorology - weather related newsgroups
» Net-weather.tv - UK and worldwide weather forum
» UK Weatherworld - weather enthusiasts website includes discussion boards, data and news articles
» SevereWX - Matt Capper's severe weather website and forums
» The Weather Outlook (TWO) Forums - several useful weather related forums
» UK Weather Forum - Tom Lee's weather forums
» UK Weather Forum - Collection of UK and global weather forums
» Midlands Weather Forum - Weather forum covering the English Midlands
   WEATHER ENTHUSIASTS / PROFESSIONALS WEBSITES
» Dan Suri's Homepage - An excellent site dedicated to his interest in the weather
» Eye on the Sky - Brendan Jones's weather photography website
» Frank Singleton's Website - excellent essential resource for sailors
» Weather Pictures - Ian Collins excellent Welsh "weather pictures" page
» Ian Currie - weatherman I met once based in Sussex
» Martin Rowley's Page - lots of useful info about meteorology
» Metbrief - Useful weather links page from Jon O'Rourke
» Michael Fish 's Website - Former BBC TV weather forecaster
» Paul Damari's Website - West Midlands based weather enthusiast and broadcaster
» Philip Eden weather records & UK Climate sites - he's a well known radio broadcaster & author
» Richard Adams - a fellow meteorologist from Birmingham
» Richard Angwin's world of weather - all sorts of interesting articles and weather information
» Dr Richard J Wild's Site - excellent website full of research & information about snow & blizzards
» Roger Brugge's Link List - excellent general link list
» Sam Jowett's Photo Weather - excellent photographic website
» Trevor Harley's British Weather Site - lots of interesting articles and his own weather records
» Will Hand's Website - weather enthusiasts website


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