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Southwest Climate and Weather

Arizona Agnet Weather and Climate Data
Access to databases including: AZMET Customized Data Generator, which contains weather-related data collected at 25 stations throughout Arizona over the last 10 years; Arizona storm records; and Arizona weather history records.

Arizona Cooperative Extension
Outreach arm of the University of Arizona. Information about environmental, marketing, food, and community programs. Links to county extension offices, publications, and calendar.

Arizona Drought Resources - University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
Links to publications and drought websites, with an emphasis on agriculture and rural communities.

Arizona Flood Warning and Drought Monitoring Webapage
Through the Multi-Agency Task Force this page provides real-time weather, precipitation and stream flow information in order to monitor and assess the potential risk for flooding in areas within Arizona.

AZMET Arizona Meteorological Network
Source of meteorological data and weather-based information for Arizona, including air and soil temperature, humidity, solar radiation, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. Geared mainly toward agricultural and horticultural users, the site also has data on heat units, chill hours and crop evapotranspiration rates.

Climate Diagnostics Center (NOAA-CIRES)
Data related to predicting important climate variations on time scales ranging from one month to centuries by identifying major patterns of climate variability on decadal and longer time scales, and investigating the role of air-sea interactions in modulating decadal-to-centennial variability; includes the Western Water Assessment, El Niño/La Niña information, U.S. predictions, forecasts and anomalies, maps and other information.

Colorado Basin River Forecast Center
NOAA center for Colorado River weather, climate, streamflow, and water supply forecasts and information. Information on river warnings and watches, recreational conditions, flood outlooks, seasonal forecasts, as well as hydrographs for Southwest Rivers.

Cooperative Extension: Climate Change and Forests
Cooperative Extension publications on how climate change is affecting regional forests (enter "climate" under "title contains" category)

Cooperative Observer Station Data Inventory for Arizona (NOAA/NWS)
Data for weather stations in Arizona allowing selection by NCDC ID, the station name, elevation, latitude, longitude, starting year and month, observation types, and ending year and month.

Cooperative Observer Station Data Inventory for New Mexico (NOAA/NWS)
Data for weather stations in New Mexico allowing selection by NCDC ID, the station name, elevation, latitude, longitude, starting year and month, observation types, and ending year and month.

CPC's Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) page
An atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon that affects the northern Pacific Ocean and western North America. Describes detection, prediction, relation to El Niño and La Niña, and impacts, including effects on precipitation in the western U.S.

Desert Research Institute
A nonprofit, statewide division of the University and Community College System of Nevada, DRI conducts basic and applied environmental research on a local, national, and international scale, some of which is climate-related.

Diagnostic Studies of the North American Monsoon System
Information on many aspects of the North American monsoon (NAM), including real-time precipitation monitoring, mean monthly circulation and precipitation over the NAM region, explanations of how the NAM works, and recent related publications.

Global Warming in the Southwest, Melanie Lenart
Information on global warming and the Southwest from CLIMAS research Dr. Melanie Lenart

Historical Hurricane Tracks (NOAA Coastal Services Center)
Provides an interactive mapping application that allows you to easily search and display 150 years of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone data. Some of these storms have affected New Mexico.

HyDIS Hydrological Data Information System
Hydrological and climatological maps, data, and research that makes use of state-of-the-art EOS satellite data. Designed to improve the understanding of the spatial and temporal distribution of precipitation in the Southwest U.S.

Jetstream - On-line Weather School
How's and why's of the atmosphere and weather, plus weather safety information.

National Drought Mitigation Center Drought Monitor
A synthesis of multiple indices, outlooks and news accounts from federal, regional and state agencies that represents a consensus of federal and academic scientists in determining drought and its impacts.

National Weather Service
Weather data, warnings, forecasts, current conditions and weather maps on international, national and regional levels.

National Weather Service Albuquerque, New Mexico
Current weather, forecasts, and climate records for northern and central New Mexico.

National Weather Service El Paso, Texas
Current weather, forecasts, and climate records for south central and southwest New Mexico and far west Texas.

National Weather Service Flagstaff, Arizona
Current weather, forecasts, and climate records for northern Arizona.

National Weather Service Las Vegas, Nevada
Current weather, forecasts, and climate records for southern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, southeastern California and southwestern Utah.

National Weather Service Phoenix, Arizona
Current weather, forecasts, and climate records for central and southwestern Arizona.

National Weather Service Tucson Experimental Graphical Forecasts for Southeast Arizona
Select forecast parameters such as temperature, dew point, humidity and sky cover to receive a digital forecast for the selected point at 2.5 km grid resolution.

National Weather Service Tucson Prototype Digital Forecasts for Southeastern Arizona
Obtain forecasts for any location in southeastern Arizona by clicking on a map of the region; provides prototype weather information based on the NWS gridded forecast (IFPS) database.

National Weather Service Tucson, Arizona
Current weather, forecasts, and climate records for southeastern Arizona.

New Mexico Climate Center (Office of the New Mexico State Climatologist)
Climate information from the state climatologist of New Mexico (New Mexico State University), including data collected from the NWS cooperative observer program and an automated weather data network. Climate data is available for specific geographical areas and time frames.

New Mexico Climate Change Advisory Group
The New Mexico Climate Change Advisory Group reviews and provides recommendations to the Governor's office regarding climate change policy

New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service
Outreach arm of New Mexico State University's College of Agriculture and Home Economics in Las Cruces. Information about agricultural, gardening, food and nutrition, and community programs. Links to county extension offices and publications.

New Mexico Drought Task Force
The website for the New Mexico Governor's Drought Task Force provides information on climate change, drought plans, conditions, and forecasts, and the functions of the task force.

New Mexico Governor's Drought Task Force
Drought plan for New Mexico that assesses where the state is vulnerable to drought impacts, what can be done to minimize the impact of a drought before it occurs, and planned responses for dealing with drought.

NOAA Climate Prediction Center Global Precipitation Monitoring
Graphs of accumulated and observed precipitation for the most recent 30, 90 and 365 days for selected cities.

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
Project descriptions, data, journal articles, and links to other sites related to the study of climate of the distant past (prior to human-measured records). Major subject areas include fire, tree rings, ice cores, pollen, boreholes, modeling, coral, and lake sediments.

NWS Phoenix - The Climate Vault
Offers both current and historical climate data for Phoenix, Arizona as well as other cities throughout the Southwestern U.S., including archived satellite and radar imagery, sun(moon)rise and sun(moon)set data, and climate means and extremes.

NWS Tucson - The Climate Page
A comprehensive source for Tucson climate information with daily climate reports, record highs, and monthly normals and extremes available.

Office of the State Climatologist for Arizona
Monthly statewide temperature and precipitation graphs and maps; tables and graphs of climate norms and historical data (Arizona State University).

Rio Grande Basin Initiative
The Rio Grande Basin Initiative promotes "Efficient Irrigation for Water Conservation in the Rio Grande Basin," providing information on 9 major task areas, including urban water conservation, irrigation education and training, institutional incentives for water use, saline and wastewater management and reuse, and environment, ecology, and water protection.

SAHRA News Updates
Research by the UA's center fo Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas

SAHRA Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas
NSF Science and Technology Center housed at the University of Arizona is dedicated to scientific research, education, and public outreach aimed at helping communities in semi-arid regions manage their water resources in a sustainable manner.

Southwest Strategy
Collaboration of federal, state, tribal, and local governments designed to aid community development and natural resources conservation and management in Arizona and New Mexico.

The University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Sciences - Weather Imagery
A wide variety of current satellite weather imagery at regional, national and global scales, including images depicting water vapor, infrared measurements, lightning, etc.

The University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Sciences - Weather Products
The latest measurements from the weather station at the Physics and Atmospheric Sciences Building on the University of Arizona campus, including plots of temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction and barometric pressure.

University of New Mexico Sevilleta LTER ENSO Research
Offers a time series plot of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), table of SOI values, the most recent NOAA ENSO diagnostic discussion, and reports on ENSO effects in New Mexico.

USGS--Arizona Current Stream flow Conditions
Real-time stream flow data for 149 sites in Arizona, divided into 10 river basins.

USGS--New Mexico Current Stream flow Conditions
A centralized system offering access to real-time and historical ground-water, surface-water, and water-quality data for the state of New Mexico.

Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC)
Long-lead climate outlooks, historical climate summaries, daily temperature and precipitation data, precipitation maps, climate monitoring and special environmental monitoring projects for the western United States.

WRCC - Climate Summaries by Station for Arizona
Temperature and precipitation records from the 1960s to present for over 200 sites in Arizona.

WRCC - Climate Summaries by Station for New Mexico
Temperature and precipitation records from the 1960s to present for over 200 sites in New Mexico.

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