My old page on “Del.Icio.Us” kept many links for me for a long time.  Then, Pinboard bought the site and turned it read only.  Middle finger to you, Pinboard.  Here are all the links I had saved there — some good resources, I think.

I will arrange these into more suitable categories when I get a chance.  In the meantime, I wanted to grab the data in case Pinboard shuts down the site.  You never know.

Meteorology and Climate

• NWS Level III Radar System Site Status  Now located at http://radar3pub.ncep.noaa.gov/ and http://radar2pub.ncep.noaa.gov/
• Average Daily Temperature Archive Since 1995
• 5-minute ASOS data
• NCEP EMC Global Model Verification
• National Diurnal Climatology  Temperature, dewpoint, and wind diurnal climatology for 200+ stations across the US.
• Precipitation Frequency Data from NOAA  The frequency/return period of rainfall totals for several durations. Fantastic website.
• Cowtan and Way surface temperature time series  Great set of graphs showing that since 2000, there isn’t much of a warming “pause.”  Hmph.]
• Fantastic Condo Wave Clouds – Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal – AGU Blogosphere The famous “clouds over the hotels” image from Panama City. I use this a ton in class.
• Craps  “But if, in addition, global warming increases the variance of regional temperatures, then we increase the likelihood of” BOTH extreme warm AND extreme cold events.
• How much snow does it take to equal an inch of rain?  The old snow-liquid approximation table used by the National Weather Service.   At the warmest temperatures in the table (leftmost column), the ratio is 10:1.   As you go to the right and the ambient temperatures drop, the ratio increases.  It’s more complicated than this, but it’s a good first approximation.
• Tornado Strikes the Algarve Region of Portugal…  Tornado in southern Portugal on 16 November 2012. The first video has a nice view of the vortex with the RFD/clear slot to the left.
• Snow-to-Liquid Ratio Climatology work at SLU  Snow-liquid ratio has both spatial and temporal variations.
• Tornado damage indicators for single-family residence
• Keeling Curve Website Wants You To Know When CO2 Levels Hit 400 Parts Per MillionAt least 800,000 years. Incredible.
• None  Andover, Kansas tornado of April 26, 1991. Incredible video.
• Length of the average dissertation  Page length is a crummy way to answer “have you done enough?” but even a couple of my committee members judged me on exactly how many pages I had.  Mine (atmospheric science) was 170, if I remember correctly.  Comparing the allied fields–geography, geology, natural resources science, physics–I’m in the ballpark.
• CWSU National TAF METAR maps – NOAA NWS  Real-time map of vfr/ifr conditions across the United States

Sports

• Your Own Personal BCS Computer
• First hawk-eye goal in Dutch Eredivisie awarded by referee
• Distance Traveled by NBA Teams during a Season  Exploring NBA for precious scraps of data… to stimulate my curiosity 😉 (by wiLQ)
• Simulated annealing for beginners  A tutorial on how simulated annealing works. Example code given in Java, applied to the Traveling Salesman Problem.

More

• All the World’s Volcano Webcams
• Indiana University, close? | Indiana University Archives
• How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor)
• Where do bit.ly and tinyurl addresses go? Check where short links go without having to click and take your chances.
• The Y-Axis of Evil  All students of science, and all novice creators of charts and figures, should have to read this.  It would be Exhibit A in a follow-on to “How to Lie with Statistics.”  Shameful.
• Definition of hashtags, the easy hashtag directory  User-submitted definitions for Twitter hashtags.
• The 2 Most Powerful Flipped Classroom Tips
• Owncloud storage  Create your own storage space in the cloud.
• NoneHistorical daily odds and results for NBA and several other leagues.
• Tourism NB – Hopewell Rocks | The official site for the Hopewell Rocks on the Bay of Fundy  The effects of tides on the coastline in part of Nova Scotia.  Beautiful.
• How to FLIP your class in 4 basic stepsFLIP in 4 Steps Contrary to popular belief, there is actually no “ONE way to flip a class” (Bergmann, 2012).  However, after visiting flipped classrooms all over North America and talking with lots of teachers who have tried flipping across the globe, I have come to view the cycle of flipping as occurring through…
• A simple out-of-class assignment that could have big pay off in a flipped class  Peer Instruction Network member Claire, a K-12 English teacher from Michigan, worries that far too many of her students are falling through the cracks.   She is looking for ways to reach them.   Could student-generated questions be one possible low-threshold intervention?  This post digs into this question.  However, if you are looking for a quick protocol for student-generated questions…