This article is from the Meteorology FAQ, by Tom Berg hcane@mobile.gulf.net with numerous contributions by others.
<URL:news:sci.geo.meteorology>
General discussion of meteorology; current and historic weather
phenomena, hurricanes, ENSO, and so on.
<URL:news:sci.geo.fluids>
Discussion of geophysical fluid dynamics.
<URL:news:sci.geo.oceanography>
General discussion of oceanography, including but not limited to physical oceanography.
<URL:news:sci.data.formats>
Discussion of data formats used in the sciences, including meteorology.
<URL:news:sci.geo.geology>
General discussion of geology; earthquakes, formations, and so on.
<URL:news:comp.infosystems.gis>
Discussion of Geographic Information Systems.
<URL:news:sci.nonlinear>
Discussion of chaos, nonlinear systems.
<URL:news:sci.environment>
Discussion of global warming, ozone depletion, anthropogenic effects,
social impacts, ecology, and so on. In practice, barely distinguishable from talk.environment.
<URL:news:sci.image.processing>
Discussion of image processing.
<URL:news:talk.environment>
Ranting and raving about global warming, ozone depletion, anthropogenic
effects, social impacts, ecology, and so on.
<URL:news:ne.weather>
Discussion of weather in the Northeastern United States (particularly
New England).
<URL:news:alt.talk.weather>
Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it...
<URL:news:uk.sci.weather>
UK and European weather discussion.
<URL:http://www.cybercomm.net/~tornado/wxboard/wwwboard.html>
WWW-based message board on the subject of weather.
<URL:http://thor.tamu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/nph-client>
WWW-based chat on the subject of weather.
<URL:http://www.sciencenet.com/>
Geoscience bulletin boards which have evolved out of the old OMNET
mail/conferencing service. Includes a geoscience-dedicated web
indexer, job postings, joint author documentation creation software,
and research program mailing list management.
 
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