This University of Oklahoma meteorology tutorial explores both high and low pressure systems--how they form and the different forms they take.

Explains what a weather map is and how it is prepared. Describes what weather maps show, typical weather patterns in Australia, the use of weather charts, temperature, and wind speed.

A definition of applied thermodynamics, the science of the relationship between heat, work, and systems that analyze energy processes. Related links.

An excerpt from an earth science textbook. The chapter shown here covers concepts about how weather data is collected, displayed and how meteorologists forecast fronts and storms.

This site from the University of Oregon provides a great explanation of the Coriolis Effect and then gives several chart type examples to help the understanding of it.

Explore the concepts of climate, cloud, front, dew, fog, humidity, isobar, supercell, and thunderstorm on this site.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students understand how physical processes (weathering, erosion, climates, soils, and landforms) shape earth's surface patterns and systems.