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Neat Weather Links:

• Today's Sky: All-Sky Camera & Live Sky Simulations
  
  
• Weather Hot List items.
• Weather Photographs(~700K)
• Global Warming comments

Neat Astronomy Links:

• Astronomical Images and Photographs
  • General Images/Photographs
  • Planetary Maps (Global Image Mosaics)
  • Lunar Eclipse Simulation (using September 2015 eclipse)
    
• Astronomy Hot List items.
• Longmont Astronomical Society | Boulder Astronomy and Space Society (BASS)
• Comet ephemerides for Olbers (13P), Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (2023A3), along with explanation/legend.
• Past bright comets including: ZTF (2022E3), Leonard (2021A1), NEOWISE (2020F3), McNaught (2006P1), Hyakutake (1996B2), Hale-Bopp (1995O1), West (1975V1), Bennett (1969Y1), and Ikeya-Seki (1965S1-A), (sub-hourly at perihelion)
• Curiosity Mars Rover Drive Animation
  
• Perseverance Mars Rover Drive Animation (each set of NavCam images mosaiced onto a common reference frame)
  
• Planetary Conjunctions and Phenomena

Other links of interest:

• Special weather / sky simulations are also being carried out in several areas:

  • Sunrise / Sunset / Twilight & Night including live nighttime sky simulations
    
    

  • Views from Space
    

  • Solar Eclipses
    
    

  • High Resolution 3-D Large Eddy Simulation Cloud Fly Through (40m horizontal grid, cloud model from Univ. of Connecticut)
    

  • High Resolution Sky/Land Simulation (30m horizontal grid, 1/16° angular resolution, land imagery from USDA and Descartes) | VR Version | Smoke Aerosols Added
    

  • High Resolution 3-D Cloud & Hydrometeor & Land Surface / Flight Animation (100m horizontal grid, 1/4° angular resolution, 8m land imagery from USDA)
    

  • Aerosols
    
  • Sky Color
    
  • Shadows and Rays
    

  • Purple Twilights
    
    

  • Supercell Storm Model Forecast
    

  • Launch into the stratosphere up to 40km from Boulder
    

• Where I work: Spire, (previously with CIRA and NOAA).

Research:

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  Related Research Projects
• Publications

E-mail: steven.albers@colostate.edu | URL: http://stevealbers.net