Pacific Basin Research

Pacific Basin Research Links

• Australian Severe Weather Australian Severe Weather. Weather photography with over 3,200 weather photos catalogued, tropical cyclones and maps, storm news newsletter, storm chasing, tornado, flood and thunderstorms reports, weather observations and observation techniques, links to the latest satellite images and weather maps and Australian weather pages and data.
  
• Vulnerability: A Pacific reality Typhoons considered in the broader context of physical, economic, and political problems of Pacific Rim societies. A paper presented at the 1997 Summit of heads of state of the Africa-Pacific-Caribbean States (ACP).
  
• Meteorological Society of Japan Containing abstracts of professional papers, in Japanese. An English language mirror site is under construction.
  
• International Research Institute Climate Data Library A cooperative program of the NOAA's Office of Global Programs, Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,and the University of California - San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
  
• Eastern North Pacific Satellite Derived Winds Central source for data and enhanced satellite images for current and archived storms in the Eastern Pacific region, with internal links to other Pacific regions.
  
• Western North Pacific Satellite Derived Winds Central source for wind data and enhanced satellite images of current and archived storms in the Western Pacific. With internal links to other Pacific basin regions.
  
• Central Pacific Hurricane Center Co-located in the National Weather Service Honolulu Forecast Office, the CPHC issues all official tropical cyclone warnings, watches, advisories, discussions, and statements for tropical cyclones in the Central Pacific from 140 degrees west longitude to the International Dateline. Includes current and archived data and satellite images.
  
• Taifuu: Typhoon Research Department Pages describe the Typhoon Research Department, part of the Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency. In English and Japanese.
  
• Publications Refereed publications on Pacific and Indian ocean hurricane phenomena from the University of Hawaii's Meteorology Department (1985-Present)
  
• Super Typhoon Paka's Surface Winds Over Guam A comprehensive study of the surface winds over Guam during Typhoon Paka (1997).
  
• Brisbane Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre Official Australian Weather Bureau site.
  
• Climate Group Experimental Results Experimental climate research by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Center.
  
• Statistical Hurricane Forecasts "Improvements in Seasonal Hurricane Forecasting Technology," a paper discussing El Nino and typhoon forecasting presented by Dr. Mark Johnson of the University of Alaska at the 1995 Hurricane Statistics Workshop in Bermuda.
  
• Abstracts from the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan English language abtracts of professional papers, most of which concern typhoons and their aftermath.
  
• U.S. National Weather Service Forecast Office, Tiyan, Guam Public site covering an extensive area of the Pacific Ocean from 130º E to 175º E and from the equator to 20º N. This ocean area includes the Mariana Islands, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands. The office issues tropical storm warnings and local forecasts for the islands and surrounding waters. With current and archived textual data, tracking info, and satellite images.
  
• Current Northwest Pacific Typhoons and Tropical Storms Graphics tracking current storms.
  
• A Theory of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Japan A formal paper by Masahiko Isobe for the Department of Civil Engineering University of Tokyo.
  
• Information on Tropical Cyclones Official site of the Hong Kong Observatory, in English and Mandarin. Warning services, storm tracking, forecasts, and descriptions of the effects on people, the economy, public health, and social effects. With an archive of famous storms of the past.