Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / November 2005

    Where can one find a machine-readable temperature table which
gives one's current official temperature?
    Here is the problem in a nutshell.  I want to use the local
temperature as input to a UNIX script that will turn up our thermostat

Many scientists see no escape for dramatic Arctic thaw
October 25, 2005
By Andrew C. Revkin
New York Times

I am trying to locate the observation interval (averaging interval) for
the National Weather Service Weather Roundup (RWR) that provides
routine, standardized hourly observations for a sub-state region, an
entire state, or a multi-state region.  I have reviewed all of the

I am writing an application to decode Radiosonde data and though I've
been able to find information on how to decode the information, I
haven't been able to find the standard for the report protocol. If I
know this I can reliably parse the data.

I have been searching the net for contouring algorithms.  I am not
having much luck with finding this information.  Does anyone have
references (URLs, books, journal articles, etc) that discuss contouring
algorithms (such as Barnes, Cressman and so on)?

More Arctic Warming
The extent of sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean is now at its lowest level in
more than a century, and many scientists believe that an ice-free Arctic Ocean
could become a reality well before the century is up. News about the nearby

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/13023619.htm
We were fabulously prepared for a hurricane -- weren't we?
By CARL HIAASEN
(Rejected first draft of Gov. Jeb Bush's candid post-hurricane

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/170826.shtml
nws tpc/national hurricane center miami fl
5 am edt mon oct 17 2005
...tropical storm wilma becomes the 21st named storm of the 2005