Some further personal background material...

Big whorls have little whorls,
Which feed on their velocity;
Little whorls have smaller whorls,
And so on unto viscosity.

L. F. Richardson (1881-1953)

The above animation and a lot more can be obtained from Graphics R~US (better viewed with Netscape navigator 3.0). A lot of astro movies worth a detour.

Some current secondary topics of interest:
Earthquakes. Oceanography ( El Niño and related impacts) and Antartica .
Linux and XFREE86 installation on a DELL Latitude 800x600 laptop using a Neomagic NM2070 graphics chip and the Accelerated-X server.

Curriculum , to dream of the ideal employer. Family Photo Album,and some friends' Homepages. Here is a map in case you want to visit me at Home

Some serious homepages.

Institutions

CARA Center for Astrophysical Research in Antartica.
CRS4 Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia.
IAC Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.
CAHA German-Spanish Astronomical Center at Calar Alto.
INSU Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers.
Departement Astrophysique, Universite de Nice. homepage.
Geneva Obs. homepage.
ONERA homepage.
ESO homepage.
ST-ECF homepage.
Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon.

JAC (The Joint Astronomy Centre in Hilo) homepage.
Arecibo Observatory homepage.
Apache Point Observatory homepage.
CERN homepage.
METEO FRANCE homepage.
WMO (World Meteorological Organisation) homepage.
CGMS Co-ordination Group for Meteorological Satellites
OSA (Optical Society of America) homepage.
NSF Tokyo homepage.

Adaptive Optics Projects

AO for interferometrie (GI2T)
ESO adaptive optics project.
Gemini adaptive optics project.
Adonis adaptive optics project.
University of Hawaii adaptive optics project.
CFHT Adaptive Optics Bonnette (with performance estimation)
ICSTM (The Applied Optics Group, Blackett Lab, Imperial College, London).
MPIA

Interferometry Projects

MAXIM (X -ray space interferometer)
CHARA (Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy)
COAST (Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope)
IOTA (Infrared--Optical Telescope Array). Mt. Hopkins near Tucson, AZ
NPOI (Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer). Anderson Mesa, Flagstaff, Arizona.
SUSI (Sydney University Stellar Interferometer)
ISI (The U.C. Berkeley Infrared Spatial Interferometer). Mount Wilson Observatory.
JPLInterferometry Center of Excellence covers projects such as Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), New Millennium Separated Spacecraft Interferometer (NMI), Keck Interferometer and Palomar Testbed (TOPS-O)
VIRGO to detect gravitational waves.

Meteorology Related Projects

AERI (The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer system is a Ground Based High Resolution Interferometer Sounder (GB-HIS) which measures the downwelling atmospheric emitted radiance at 0.5 cm-1 (unapodized) spectral resolution in the spectral range of 3 - 18 um.)
WINDII (The Wind Imaging Interferometer: An International project to explore the dynamics and composition of Earth's upper atmosphere.)
FISAT (The Upper Atmosphere Research group belongs to the Aeronomy Division (DAE) of the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE). FISAT's research activities started in 1968, monitoring the stratospheric aerosol layer with a ruby LIDAR.)

Telescopes Projects

SALT The South Africal Large Telescope Project.
LBT The Large Binocular TelescopeProject. Mount Graham near Safford, Arizona.
TNG Telescopio Nazionale GALILEO.
NGAT The New Generation Astronomical Telescopes.
CFHT Canada France Hawaii Telescope.
XLT Extra large telescope (Canada).
LDRT Large Dynamic Range CFHT
Gemini The Gemini 8~m Telescopes Project.
The Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes at the HEGRA experiment.

General Astronomy Related Pages

Everything you can dream of (HTML Version of AstroWeb Database).
Video On Line Tools for Amateur Astronomy (from Italy).
Diffract

Some interesting homepages.

Data Banks

Geostationary Satellites World Links.
NSSDC U.S. National Space Science Data Center, provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data from NASA space flight missions, in addition to selected other data and some models and software.
NGDC U.S. National Geophysical Data Center, manages environmental data in the fields of solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and glaciology (snow and ice).
USGS U. S. Geological Survey, a bureau of the Department of the Interior. The USGS provides maps, reports, and information to help others meet their needs to manage, develop, and protect America's water, energy, mineral, and land resources.
PO.DAACThe Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center archives and distributes data relevant to the physical state of the oceans.
JEDAJoint Environmental Data Analysis Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography providing quality control on upper ocean temperature and salinity observations over the global ocean..
WORLD FACTBOOK 1995 Economical and political informations on all countries of the world from the C.I.A Web pages

Weather Data and Prediction

National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) provides climate products and services consisting of operational prediction of climate variations, monitoring of the climate system and development of data bases for determining current global and regional climate anomalies and trends, and analysis of their origins and linkages to the complete climate system.
U. S. Purdue Weather Processor WXP is a software package developed at Purdue University in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. It is intended to be a general purpose weather visualization tool for current and archived meteorological data.
The Satellite Oceanography Laboratory provides Real-time data for Meteorology and Oceanography and Spectacular satellite images of general interest.
Weather and Climates Images Constantly updated data bank.
CIMSS Cooperative Institute For Meteorological Satellite Studies (Real Time Upper Level Data derived from the GOES-8 Sounder).
Virtually Hawaii information and data distribution system developed to provide easy access to Earth and space science data focussed on Hawaii.
IGAC International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project is the major international organization of research scientists concerned primarily with the effects on the atmosphere of the complex interactions among Earth's environmental and human systems.
AGU American Geophysical Union is an international scientific society with more than 32,000 members in over 115 countries. For over 75 years, AGU researchers, teachers, and science administrators have dedicated themselves to advancing the understanding of Earth and its environment in space and making the results available to the public
South African Weather links