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List O' Fascinating Topics
The Subject Categories Herein
The previously encountered subject headings with a bit in the way
of a description of their contents.
The short form of sites described (or perhaps not)
elsewhere in these pages so as to allow your humble author to access
them quickly. Okay, so I didn't want to call it a hotlist.
Sue me. This section is pretty much for my own benefit so if you're
not either me or sufficiently like me to warrant either constant
government surveillance or electroshock therapy then you might want
to give it a skip.
Links to
ocean circulation models,
meta-resources,
educational documents,
graphics and data analysis software,
data sets,
oceanographic literature,
and of course the obligatory pointers
to oceanographic institutions.
Links to
climate data sites,
climate modeling groups,
etext documents
about climate, various types of applicable
software,
a detailed
paleoclimate data list, and a
paleoclimate
bibliography and
glossary.
An annotated list of links to various freely available
and commercial packages for
analyzing,
graphing,
storing and retrieving
large amounts of data or numerical simulation
output. This list describes over 70 graphics
packages and over a dozen numerical analysis system
packages that are freely available and will run on at
least one UNIX platform. Contained herein are also descriptive lists
of related types of software such as packages for
symbolic math,
GUI development, and
wavelet and
spectral analysis.
This is a list of software amenable to running on Linux
systems. Either the source is available and will compile (reasonably)
easily or a binary is available. It's assumed that the GCC compiler
is installed and also that a Fortran compiler is installed (at present
either g77, f2c or the NAG f90 compiler are the choices). The list
is eclectic but leans towards software that might be useful to a
working scientist, i.e. a bias towards mathematical and numerical
analysis and scientific graphics tools.
A glossary of technical terms and abbreviations and acronyms
one might encounter perusing the paleoclimate literature, and seeing
how the field includes several other fields
(e.g. geology, meteorology, oceanography, paleontology, statistics,
numerical methods, etc.) the jargon can get pretty deep, thick and
obscure pretty fast. The online version of this presently lags
the hardcopy version by about six months while I'm waiting for
the conversion software to catch up to my requirements.
Collections of links to topics as diverse as
parallel computing, text processing,
etexts, numerical analysis, UNIX, computer languages, etc. This
is by far the oldest section hereabouts and isn't really checked
or updated all that often. Think of it as my cybermillenial version
of prehistoric cave paintings.
Links to resources that link to resources that link to
resources etc. ad nauseaum. If other people are going to go to
all the trouble of filtering, classifying and listing the
resources of the Virtual Vast Wasteland for me then I'll oblige
at least some of them by perusing their results. Those I hit
most often include the
NCSA What's New, Yahoo,
the
hypertext FAQS, and the list of
electronic journals,
all of which have a reasonably high SNR.
A collection of bibliographies on topics such as oceanography papers
and textbooks, review papers, paleoclimatology, wavelets, etc. Most
are in
BibTeX format.
A collection of sites that have piqued my interest in one
way or another and that either don't fit anywhere else in these pages or
do fit but I'm just too lazy to move them to the appropriate location.
Your mileage, as is said, may vary.
What you are reading was created using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML),
which is a way of marking up documents and encoding document structure
with a minimum of presentation information. This allows the viewer
that you're using (e.g. Mosaic, Lynx, etc.) to present the information
contained therein in whatever format is supported by that viewer. It
also facilitates portability in that the document isn't tied down to
a specific piece of software or hardware.
This leads to information about the World Wide Web (WWW), HTML, and
related things.
Published papers on which I've labored.
A catch-all section including literary stuff as well
as politics and a little bit of everything else.
My Ambrose Bierce
page is located hereabouts.
One could advance
the argument (as indeed I have) that the entirety of western
civilization can be summarized under this topic, but I'll stick
to the more colloquial definition when deciding what to include
here.
Reader beware. There are as yet no pictures of me, my dog,
or anyone else here that might be even remotely construed to have
any sort of intimate connection to yours truly. The text, on the other
hand, is either yet another irony-drenched series of electronic winks, nudges,
and asides in the now familiar "ain't we all such clever cyberfolk
nearing the end of the millenia?" mode or a reasonable facsimile of
my present version of reality.
See how many people have accessed this site and which pages
are most popular. That's right, here's my entry in the "my hit list
is bigger than yours" sweepstakes.
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Last modified: Feb. 28, 1996
S. Baum
Dept. of Oceanography
Texas A&M University
baum@astra.tamu.edu