Links

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO): http://www.iso.ch
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC): http://www.fgdc.gov/
• ESRI GIS Standards and Interoperability: http://www.esri.com/software/opengis
• Open GIS Consortium (OGC): http://www.opengis.org
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): http://www.noaa.gov
• NOAA's National Weather Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov
• NOAA's Climate Prediction Center: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov
• NOAA El Niňo Theme page: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html
• NOAA Climate Prediction Center El Niňo page: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/MJO/enso.shtml
• NOAA World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Global Data Resource: http://woce.nodc.noaa.gov/
• International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE): http://ioc3.unesco.org/iode/
• The Environment Time: http://www.environmenttimes.net
  The Environment Time is the new United National Environment Programme (UNEP) global news journal on the environment.
• Ocean Magazine: http://www.oceanmag.org
  Ocean Magazine covers topics such as Hurricanes and Florida Manatees, providing the reader with scientific articles as well as poems and photographs "to celebrate and protect the Ocean". 'Ocean' is published 1/1, 4/1, 7/1 and 9/1. Diane Buccheri is Publisher and Editor.
• Emarine: http://www.imarest.org/emarine/
  Emarine is a free monthly newsletter produced by The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. It is for the benefit of the professional marine community and provides, among other things, news articles, worldwide event listings and free sample articles.
• METAR is the international standard code format for hourly surface weather observations which is analogous to the SA coding currently used in the US. The acronym roughly translates from French as Aviation Routine Weather Report. SPECI is merely the code name given to METAR formatted products which are issued on a special non-routine basis as dictated by changing meteorological conditions. The SPECI acronym roughly translates as Aviation Selected Special Weather Report. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wdc/metar/index.php