Web Directory

» Alaska Science Forum: The Jet Stream
   Article by Larry Gedney about how the failure of a bombing mission on Tokyo in 1944 led to an understanding of the fluid dynamics of the upper atmosphere.
   http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF6/640.html

» BBC Weather: Jet Streams in the UK
   Discusses the fundamental role jet streams play in UK weather.
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/understanding/jetstreams_uk.shtml

» BBC: Weather Basics: Jet Streams
   Article describing these high level winds formed by the temperature differences in the upper atmosphere between cold polar air and warm tropical air.
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/basics_jetstreams.shtml

» CRWS: Jet Stream Analyses and Forecasts
   Contains maps of where the jet stream is now, and where forecasters think it will be in the future.
   http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html

» Generation of the African Easterly Jet and Its Role in Determining West African Precipitation
   Paper by Kerry H. Cook published by the American Meteorological Society.
   http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0442%281999%29012%3C1165%3AGOTAEJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2

» Jet Stream
   Diagram showing how a current of rapidly moving air is formed between two masses of air at different temperatures.
   http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cyc/upa/jet.rxml

» National Weather Service: JetStream
   Online resource for learning about the jet stream and global air circulation patterns.
   http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream//global/jet.htm

» Ooishi's Observation Viewed in the Context of Jet Stream Discovery
   Article by John M Lewis outlining Ooishi's upper-air observations dating back to 1926 and the history of the discovery of the jet stream.
   http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-84-3-357

» Paths of Polar and Subtropical Jet Streams
   Provides diagrams showing the generalized locations of the polar and subtropical jet streams in the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere in January and July.
   http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es1908/es1908page04.cfm

» The Tropics May Be Expanding
   Atmospheric temperature measurements by U.S. weather satellites indicate Earth's hot, tropical zone has expanded farther from the equator since 1979 because the subtropical jets have been pushed toward the Poles.
   http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/24610/The_tropics_may_be_expanding.html

» Wikipedia: Jet Stream
   Encyclopedia article on these fast flowing, narrow currents of air found between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream