Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / March 2006

I'm trying to create contours from a data set that includes longitude,
latitude and a value. I need to create smooth contour lines between
each value, in the form of longitude and latitude to form a polygon
around the values.

NOTICE HOW GLOBAL WARMING HAS MORPHED INTO "CLIMATE CHANGE".
The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which
has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said
that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has

Another very large plume of dust has been blowing
off Africa the past few days. Slowly moving west. Here's
the noon GOES-east satellite shot, March 11. You can
see the dust easily between ~5-30 north.

WEATHER TRIVIA QUESTION - Why are there MORE hurricanes in New
England..
THAN Jacksonville, Florida?????
The Answer can be found on:

In this image, dust mingles with clouds over northeastern China and the
Korean Peninsula. The dust cloud appears as a pale tan, slightly
lighter than the underlying landscape. Dust clouds obscure the view of
the city of Beijing.

There are of course people proclaiming that today is the first day of
Spring.
But in terms of sunlight, it is the exact MIDDLE of spring.
And do temperature records back up this silly definition of the seasons? No.

This report is available for on-line reading and download at:
http://climate.wri.org/climatescience-pub-4175.html
ISSUE BRIEF: Climate science 2005: Major new discoveries
2006, ISBN: 1-56973-608-1 (14 pages)

Sorry guys.  The spam stuff was not my intent.  I do oppoligies and won't
happen again.  I have never been on newsgroups before and not sure how to
work them. I hope you guys can forgive a bad choice.  Murphey

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a8TIA_eeOtfE&refer=top_world_news
Thousands Evacuated as Cyclone Hits Australian Coast (Update1)
March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of residents of Australia's northern

We all know about UHI (Urban Heat Island) and how it affects
temperature (even AGW'er cultists acknowledge this point, though they
claim their computer models account for UHI and can show temperature
increases even after UHI is subtracted out of the data)

We're over the 'tipping point.'
-.-. --.- Roger
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Climate change 'irreversible' as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form

What is the general opinion about the book" The Weather Wizard's Cloud
Book : A Unique Way to Predict the Weather Accurately and Easily by
Reading the Clouds" by Louis Rubin and the clould chart by the same
author? Any help would be appreciated.

Hallo all!
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Extreme Tempeartures Around the World is the best
collection of extreme temperatures in hundreds of