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Weather forecast link

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SAWS Sea level pressure chart: the classic weather chart for surface synoptic conditions.

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SAWS FAQ  Weather Climate Education

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SAWS marine portal:  Check the forecast animation of waves and wind and SST and Current observations

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AMS meteorology climatology  oceanography  Glossary12 000 terms explained

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​GFS forecast chart Africa: Not all phenomena have a surface expression: start with the 500 hPa chart.

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GFS forecast chart South Hemisphere: Large scale phenomena and their remote origin are better seen here

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Key to above GFS weather forecast charts

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Earthnull: different display , same forecast

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Wave and wind forecast Windguru: very good weather and wave forecast for selected locations

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Accuweather Most used weather forecast source for app check out weather radar for rain, not a radar but nice display

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First Weather

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Wave and SST measurement and forecast CSIR

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real time weather station Kommetjie:  this is your baseline real time weather station

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SAWS Facebook

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Weather Africa Facebook: good satellite images and discussion of synoptic conditions

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real time and forecast regional map and station Windfinder

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Satellite animation rainfall and cloud  South Africa

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Past weather

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Sea level charts historical SAWS:  surface synoptic conditions with an description of weather conditions

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Forensic meteorology

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Climate

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KNMI web explorer: a classic, colleagues are publishing papers using that site.

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NCEP reanalysis Daily Mean Composites

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NCEP reanalysis monthly and seasonal mean composites

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NOAA Climate Plotting and Analysis Tools

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GIOVANNI: Web interface that allows users to analyze NASA's gridded data. Very powerful. Lot of data and very hig resolution datasets. Ocean, Land and Atmosphere.

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PSL huge source of ocean weather and climate data, download or plot data. Go to Climate or Satellite section and click on parameter of interest

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Oceanography

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Taking advantage of Multi-sensor Synergy: analysis tools overview

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Ocean datalab portal (satellite remote sensing)

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Standalone SEAScope interactive application

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Copernicus: Ocean model forecast, altimetry , SST and more. Excellent source of NETCDF files to download.

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Oceanworks explorer ocean current, sst , rainfall, cholorophyll, salinity , etc, easy to use.

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Model output access to ocean model  for the tropical and subtropical Atlantic via a Live Access Server or THREDDS server.

 

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CONTACT​ US

Nansen Tutu Center

Dept of Oceanography

University of Cape Town

Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa

 

Mathieu.Rouault at uct.ac.za

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