Climate & Weather Resources
- Weather
Topics
- General Resources, Auroras, Climatic Changes & Global Warming, Cyclones,
Droughts, El Niņo, Floods, Frost, Ice, Snow, Hurricanes, Meteorology, Natural
Disasters, Rainbow, Space Weather, Storms, Temperature, Tides, Tornadoes,
Typhoons, Wind Chill
Online
Publications (UCF access only)
- Provides files for Monthly Climatic Data for the World, Storm Data, Local
Climatological Data, Climatological Data, Hourly Precipitation Data,
and Heating & Cooling Degree Day Data. Select the Free access by certain agencies and individuals link to obtain the
full reports.
- To retrieve Local Climatological Data, you need to know the correct station abbreviations.
The Florida stations are:
| DAB - Daytona Beach Regional Airport |
KYW - Key West International Airport |
TLH - Tallahassee Municipal Airport |
| FMY - Fort Myers |
MIA - Miami International Airport |
TPA - Tampa International Airport |
| GNV - Gainesville Municipal Airport |
MCO - Orlando International Airport |
VRB - Vero Beach Municipal Airport |
| JAX - Jacksonville International Airport |
PNS - Pensacola Regional Airport |
PBI - West Palm Beach International Airport |
- The UCF Library has paper or microfiche copies of some earlier issues of these
publications in the US Documents Collection, including:
- Climatological Data - Florida [US DOCS C55.214/8:]
- Local Climatological Data - Orlando [US DOCS C55.217:]
Get/View
Online Climatic Data and Weather Observations
Historic Data for Florida Stations
Fires and Storms in Florida
Water Resources of
Florida - Orlando Subdistrict (USGS)
- Weather America [REF QC983.W385 1996] provides key climatological data, with
rankings, for over 4,000 places in the United States based on observations from 1965-1994.
- Weather of U.S. Cities [REF QC983.W393 1996] provides a guide to the recent
weather histories of 268 key cities and weather observation stations in the United States
and its island territories.
- Engineering Weather Data [REF TH7015.K54 2001] is intended to be a
comprehensive, single weather data resource including all data commonly used for building
systems design and energy analysis for 375 United States, Canadian and worldwide cities.
Includes BIN data, degree days, ventilation energy consumption, humidification
water consumption, heat recovery savings, economizer savings, and ASHRAE design
conditions.
"The time period of coverage ranges from the 1830s
through the 1970s with most data from the period prior to 1960. Each series
typically includes observations for a number of meteorological and other
geophysical parameters."
"covers research related to analysis and prediction
of observed and modeled circulations of the atmosphere, including technique
development, data assimilation, model validation, and relevant case studies.
This includes papers on numerical techniques and data assimilation
techniques that apply to the atmosphere and/or ocean environment."
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assistance at the UCF Library's Reference Desk.
Prepared by: Rich Gause,
Government Documents Librarian
URL of this page: http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/climate/
Last update:07/25/08 06:07:54 PM
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