Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:28:45 -0800 (PST)
From: TI Pinhole Listserv <pinhole@isaac.exploratorium.edu>
To: geoff ruth <geoffr@eastside.org>
Subject: Re: Weather questions
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971120115418.0068fc2c@mail.walltech.com>
Dear Geoff and Pinholers,
An excellent source for weather and other information is our very own TI
website. The resources section:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/resources/
is an excellent place to start.
You could click on Favorite Links, which lists websites that are favorites
of TI staff.
You could also try clicking on Learning Resources which lists lots of
books, videos and periodicals in our Learning Studio/Library and
additional
weblinks. In fact,
you can look at the
Learning Resources for weather:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/resources/weather.html
for additional information. Unfortunately, the Library is closed till
February as the new facility is being constructed and resources from that
collection cannot be retrieved. However, the weblinks will get you going.
Good luck,
Deborah
________________________________
Deborah Hunt
Pinhole Technical Moderator
Exploratorium
3601 Lyon St.
San Francisco, CA 94123
415-353-0485
email: dhunt@exploratorium.edu
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, geoff ruth wrote:
> A couple reference questions about some earth-science related things:
>
> -Do any of you know of good books to read (for me, not for students) that
> explain how atmosphere or weather or climate things work on a conceptually
> logical level?
>
> -Same thing for oceans and oceanography.
>
> -I don't understand how El Nino is supposed to work. It has something to do
> with a certain kind of ocean wave that rolls across the Pacific, when then
> affects warm water upwelling, which then somehow affects climate patterns
> through the whole world? Somehow the causal connections seem sketchy to me.
> Do any of you have suggestions about where to find an explanation of this
> pattern that actually makes sense?
>
>
>
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