California's Weather and Climate
Can you find another place on Earth the size of California that displays such diversity of climates ? Depending on the classification system used, you may find examples similar to nearly every major climate group, except for tropical climates, somewhere in the state.
Take a moment to peruse though the list of links below and better acquaint yourself with the dynamic state that is California.
California Links
- Air Mass Classification
- Air Parcel Cooling
- American Meteorological Society
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- California Climate Data Archive
- California Climate summaries from the Western Regional Climate Center
- Catalina Eddies and Coastally Trapped Disturbances
- Climate & Topography
- Climate of California
- Desert Biomes
- El Nino/La Nina information
- Fog In California
- GOES - NE Pacific - High Resolution - visible
- Great Basin High, December 10, 1998
- Inversions and Smog
- Lapse Rates and Clouds
- Mediterranean Climate
- Mid-Latitude Cyclone
- Mid-Latitude Cyclone / Surface Patterns
- National Weather Service
- Observing & Modeling the California Current System
- Pressure Patterns
- Rainshadow Effect
- Rossby Waves
- Southern California Climate
- The Santa Ana Winds
- The Status of Our Presesent Understanding of Mountain Climates
- The Thermal Low
- U.S Solar Radiation Resource Maps
- Weatherwise Magazine
- Winter Orographic Precipitation Ratios in the Sierra Nevada—Large ...
