The web sites listed on the following four pages provide a wealth of additional information on the subjects presented in SAM II activities 1 – 6. The levels of additional information provided in these sites range from beginning to very advanced, allowing students of all levels to research additional meaningful material on the SAM II subjects.

As of Fall 2001, all the following web sites are active. However, they are subject to change and may not all be available when students begin their work with the SAM II activities.

If too many of these sites are no longer active, the developers and creators of SAM and SAM II recommend using the World Wide Web search engine "Google."

    http://www.google.com/

Enter "Google" using key words from each SAM II activity. The following table gives a sample of key words to use in entering the "Google" search engine.

      Activity 1 Clouds, Environmental Technology Laboratory, NOAA
      Activity 2 GPS, Hurricane Georges, Forecast Systems Laboratory, National Hurricane Center, NOAA
      Activity 3 Ozone, Ozone Hole, NASA, Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA
      Activity 4 Tornados, Skew-T, National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA
      Activity 5 El Niño, La Niña, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA
      Activity 6 Greenhouse Effect, Global Warming, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, NOAA

SAM: The original SAM, published in 1993, can be found in the following URL...

    http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/%7Eosborn/sam/SAM_Intro.html

Activity 1: Anatomy of Clouds

  • http://www.etl.noaa.gov
  • http://www.etl.noaa.gov/25anniv/radar/
  • http://www6.etl.noaa.gov/pdj/img/wisp_06mar91.0602.jpg

Activity 2: Forecasting Severe Weather: Forecasters Use GPS to Observe a Hurricane (Hurricane Georges)

  • http://oak.fsl.noaa.gov/gps.html
  • http://gpsmet.fsl.noaa.gov/realtimeview/jsp/rti.jsp
  • http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/georges/georges.html
  • http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/stories/sir19b.html
  • http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sju/georges.html
  • http://gps.faa.gov/index.htm
  • http://www.garmin.com/aboutGPS/
  • http://www.gpsworld.com/resources/glossary.htm
  • http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/gpsmet/
  • http://www.navtechgps.com/glossary.asp

Activity 3: Disappearing Ozone

  • http://www.ozonelayer.noaa.gov/
  • http://www.al.noaa.gov
  • http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ozwv/ozsondes/spo/index.html
  • http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/ozone_hole.html
  • http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/ATM_CHEM/chlorine.html
  • http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast02oct_1.htm
  • http://www.epa.gov/ozone/
  • http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/index.html
  • http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/icd/jds/ozone/
  • http://www.solcomhouse.com/OzoneHole.htm

Activity 4: Forecasting Tornados: Forecasters Use Temperature, Dewpoint, and Air Pressure (Skew-T)

  • http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/
  • http://meteora.ucsd.edu/wx_pages/upper_air.html
  • http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/misc/990503.html
  • http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/helpdocs/skew_T_help.html
  • http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
  • http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/index.html
  • http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/students/weather/soundings/
  • http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/skewt.html
  • http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/

Activity 5: El Niño and La Niña

  • http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/
  • http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/lanina.html
  • http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/
  • http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/la-nina-story.html
  • http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html
  • http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/realtime.html
  • http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/el.nino/strange.brew/
  • http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/spacific.htm
  • http://www.usatoday.com/weather/nino/wnino0.htm

Activity 6: Greenhouse Effect – Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right?

  • http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/climate.html
  • http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/glance/images/timeline.gif
  • http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/greeneffect.html
  • http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/climate/
  • http://www.gcrio.org/ocp96/p30box.html
  • http://www.dar.csiro.au/info/material/info98_2.htm
  • http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/pubs/factsheets/fs_effect.html
  • http://icp.giss.nasa.gov/research/methane/greenhouse.html
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/greenhouse.html
  • http://www.greenpeace.org/~climate/science/reports/climatefaq.html
  • http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/greenhouse/greenhouse.html
  • http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/ClimateFuture/Greenhouse.htm
  • http://www.meto.umd.edu/~owen/CHPI/IMAGES/greeneff.html
  • http://www.science.org.au/nova/016/016key.htm
  • http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4821/
  • http://www.enfo.ie/Library/fs/fs16.htm
  • http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/03.htm
  • http://www.crystalinks.com/greenhouseffect.html
  • http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/7h.html
  • http://www.whrc.org/globalwarming/warmingearth.htm
  • http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm

Note: Other educational activities by SAM and SAM II developer Beverly Meier
Space Science Institute: Solarscapes

  • http://www.spacescience.org/Education/ResourcesForEducators/CurriculumMaterials/Solarscapes/1.html