Last night while fumbling around on the NOAA website (looking for snow reports in Rangeley, Maine actually) I came across the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory. The Environmental Visualization Laboratory provides images, animations, and Google Earth files depicting weather and climate patterns. For example, this visualization depicts the movement of Arctic sea ice.

Applications for Education
NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Laboratory provides excellent visualizations that can be used for teaching lessons on weather and climate. For teachers who would like to use Google Earth as a part of their lessons, NOAA provides an excellent guide to using Google Earth for teaching weather and climate lessons.