References from Rob's Weather Talk


Technical References


California Weather

NWS Discussion on San Jose Climate

Mercury News Article on San Jose Weather

Fog

All about Bay Area Fog

CALIFORNIA AND OREGON HUMIDITY AND COASTAL FOG

Sea Breezes discussion (with video)

Seeing

Sky and Telescope

Definitions from Clear Sky Clock

Cloudy Nights: The Atmosphere and Observing - A guide to Astronomical seeing

M74 -- the Effects of Astronomical Seeing

Deep Sky Observers Companion

More Technical

Aberrator - optics simulator

Relating Seeing Quality To Meteorological Conditions

Definition of Scintillation

University of Florida Observational Astronomy Course

Rochester Institute of Technology:Atmospheric effects: extinction and seeing

 

Weather Education

Interpreting Weather-Satellite Images

General Education

Books

Best Books are listed first

An Introduction to Satellite Image Interpretation; Conway and Maryland Space Grant Consortium; 1997

Excellent book on General Weather and everything about Satellite Imaging

Atmospheric Science - An Introductory Survey; Wallace and Hobbs; 1977

Many weather epiphanies; Heavy math treatment not for the fainthearted; some material dated, but the basic equations still apply.

Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region Gilliam; 2002

Biased toward SF weather descriptions

Weather Forecasting for Astronomy; Baird;1982

Generally good descriptions. Concentrates on East Coast Weather patterns. Out of print buy as used book

The Atmosphere - an Introduction to Meterology; Lutgens and Tarbuck; 1989 (most recent edition 1997)

out of print; Contributed many pretty pictures; Very Qualitative descriptions