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About Dust
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Publisher: Australian Goervnment-Bureau of Meteorology
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This webpage from Wayne's Word provides basic information about dust storms, including how they are formed and the problems they cause. Recent dust storms in New South Wales,…
http://reg.bom.gov.au/nsw/sevwx/facts/dust.shtml
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Chaos and Fractals
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L. Bradley
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This webpage provides an overview of chaos theory and some of the surrounding ideas such as the Butterfly Effect and strange attractors. It uses many helpful images and diagrams, and…
https://www.stsci.edu/~lbradley/seminar/index.html
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NOAA: Tsunami
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Publisher: NOAA; NESDIS
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This comprehensive NOAA site provides a wealth of information on tsunamis. Its sections explain the basic science, lay out NOAA's role, and provide much more, including numerous…
https://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/
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What is a contrail and how does it form?
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This NOAA webpage describes contrails and explains both their origins and how they spread out. The page includes a satellite image showing a dense accumulation of contrails over part…
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/contrail.php?wfo=fgz
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The Contrail Effect
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WGBH Educational Foundation
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NOVA's The Contrail Effect describes how contrails form and how humidity determines how long they last. The webpage goes on to describe the study during the days of clear skies,…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/contrail-effect/
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Aircraft Contrails
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NASA Earth Observatory
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NASA's Earth Observatory "Aircraft Contrails" webpage summarizes the key mechanism, measurements, and predictions of how cirrus clouds produced by contrails contribute to global…
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/4435/aircraft-contrails
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Atmospheric Optics Images
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H. Edens
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This collection contains photographs of many different atmospheric optical phenomena, accompanied by a brief explanation of how they occur. Prints of the pictures can be purchased…
http://www.weatherscapes.com/gallery.php?cat=optics
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Severe Weather Primer: Lightning
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Publisher: National Severe Storm Laboratory
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This site from NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory provides answers to a variety of questions related to lightning and its behavior. You'll see what causes lightning and…
https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/
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This Model Can Take the Heat
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Publisher: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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This site provides a description of how research teams from the Lawrence Livermore and the Los Alamos National Laboratories are joining forces to develop a physics-based model of…
https://str.llnl.gov/content/pages/past-issues-pdfs/2002.11.pdf#page=6
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Hunt for the Supertwister
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Publisher: National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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This website highlights research conducted at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on tornadoes. The page contains descriptive text, multiple videos of "supertwister"…
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/Stories/supertwister/
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