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Glossaries and Codes
AMS - American Meteorological Society - a massive (often technical) glossary with 12,000+ termsUS National Weather Service - NOAA
US NSIDC - National Snow and Ice Data Center
Weather.com
SYNOP code - interpretation guide, including present weather codes and cloud type codes
Present Weather Symbols
The Beaufort Wind Scale - reference table including photos, via NOAA/NWS
Articles and Publications
MetService BlogTe Ara: Encyclopedia of NZ - Climate and Atmosphere
Wikipedia - Atmospheric Scieces Portal
» with Meteorology and Climatology categories
AMS Journals Online - American Meteorological Society
Nature - International weekly journal of science
[see also the Seasonal & Climate page for more climate change/global warming links]
Time
Time.is - simple site with a BIG clock! also world clocks, sun rise/set times and computer time offsetWorldtime Buddy - customisable list of locations
World Time Server
Time and date.com
Tip: use Google Search: eg "time in utc" or "time in Sydney", or for sunrise/sunset try something like "sunrise in Wellington"
Maps
Google Maps - fully interactive map for New Zealand, including terrain
» with NZ Mountain Passes and Roads map containing markers and summit heights
» also powering ZoomIn.co.nz and Wises Maps
Bing Maps - Microsoft's interactive map service
LINZ Topographic Maps - including 1:250,000 and 1:50,000 scale maps of New Zealand
LINZ Marine Charts
New Zealand Topographic Map (topomap.co.nz) - also with a mobile version
NZTopomaps.com
NZ Charts - marine charts, currently North Island only - zoom and pan similar to Google maps (req. Silverlight)
Koordinates - a wealth of GIS map data for overlay on a Google Map with free downloads
Lonely Planet
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - from the University of Texas
Great Circle Path - plot and measure great circle paths
Azimuthal Equidistant Proj. Map Server - make great circle maps
Convert Lat/Long in Deg/Min/Sec to/from Decimal
Flags
World Flag DatabaseFlags of the World