28 Jun 2007

Monsoon On Line (MOL)
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India.
Self-description: "Welcome to the Monsoon On Line (MOL) web site ! The definitive information source for monitoring and forecasting the Asian monsoons. [...] The Asian summer monsoon affects the lives of 60% of the world population and has a major controlling effect on world food production."
Site contents: * Introduction; * Monsoons - Present and Past (#Rainfall Charts - All-India Daily, All-India Weekly, Subdiv. Weekly, Station Daily, #Rainfall Maps - Weekly Weekly Cumulative Seasonal. #Monsoon Circulation - Monsoon Monitoring by Kaji and Bin Wang, Monsoon Advance (IMD, Recent Monsoons (1997-2006) from Monsoon On Line Archives); * Monitoring (Current Weather over Asia, Climate Monitoring); * Forecasting (Historical perspective, Characteristic Features of Predictor Parameters, List of Predictors, Regional Predictors, ENSO indicators, Cross-equatorial flow, Global/Hemispheric conditions, Spatial patterns of predictor-rainfall relationships, Techniques used in LRF studies, Secular variations in the AISMR-predictor relationships, Interrelationships among the predictors); * Web Links; * Bibliography on Asian Monsoons; * Contact Us.
URL http://www.tropmet.res.in/%7Ekolli/MOL/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/* /http://www.tropmet.res.in/%7Ekolli/MOL/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Govt./Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100