Resources

Programming Language and Software:

• Matlab Documentation (PDF available)
• Anaconda IDE for Python
• JuliaPro: A Julia Distribution
• Panoply: A convenient geo-data viewer (HDF, NetCDF, …)
• Mendeley: A powerful and free reference management software
• Bitvise: Windows SSH software for logging in group server
• Filezilla: Cross-platform FTP application
• Everything: A powerful local search tool

Common Research Datasets:

• Field Campaign:DOE-ARM
• Reanalysis: CFSR/CFSV2, NCEP, ERA-Interim (monthly, daily), MERRA, MERRA2, 20th Century Reanalysis Project, JRA-55 Reanalysis
• Precipitation data: GPCC, CMAP, GPCP, TRMM
• Satellite data: CloudSat, AIRS, MLS, Himawari-8, Global Merged IR
• Fire data: California Fire Perimeters, Active Fire map

Current Weather:

• WeatherWest Blog (by Daniel Swain)
• Weather Charts (Tropical Tidbits)
• Fansy surface wind
• Daily Weather Map
• Drought Monitor
• Precipitation
• Past Event Summaries, Case Studies and Event Maps
• Past Storm Summaries
• Himawari-8 Real-time

Others

• Nano Editor
• Atmosphere monitoring service by Copernicus
• Sea-Mat: Matlab tools for oceanographic analysis
• Useful functions from Sea-Mat
• Homepage of Prof. Jianping Li
• Intercomparison tools for reanalysis data