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Glossaries and Dictionaries
Acronyms/Abbreviations
- Telcom's list of acronyms used in aeronautics (bilingual list of English acronyms with Spanish meaning)
- NCAR/UCAR acronym list (English)
- NOAA/NWS acronym list (English)
- Aerovía's list of acronyms used in aeronautics (English and Spanish, includes meteorology terms)
- WMO List of Acronyms (English)
COMET
- COMET Glossary of Meteorology and Hydrology Terms (bilingual, English / Spanish glossary of about 6700 meteorology, hydrology and allied sciences terms used in the Spanish versions of COMET's modules. Click the link to download a .zip archive. The glossary will be updated twice a year, current version: v5a, 08/2009)
- Glossary of Satellite Meteorology Terms (bilingual, English and Spanish, definitions in Spanish)
- Glossary of Mesoscale Terms (bilingual, English and Spanish, definitions in Spanish)
- Glossary of Terms on Waves (bilingual, English and Spanish, definitions in Spanish)
Spanish
- Diccionario de la lengua española (Real Academia Española website, includes access to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas)
- Glosario ARCE (Spanish Civil Defense and Protection Agency's glossary, includes meteorology, hydrology, emergencies, etc.)
- weather.com en español glossary
- Vademecum REMER Glossaries Index to a variety of glossaries in Spanish, including topics such as Disaster Management, Meteorology, Aeronautics, Aviation, Geology, Disaster Prevention and Warning, Cartography and Topography, Hydrology, Flood-Related Terms, Metrology, Drought, Forest Fires and Fire Safety Terms, and many others
- Glossary of the National Meteorological Service of Uruguay
English
- American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.
- Australia Bureau of Meteorology Glossary
- Hurricane, tropical cyclone glossary (USA Today)
- NWS Glossary of Hydrologic Terms
- NOAA Tide and Current Glossary
- AMS Glossary of Meteorology
- NWS Glossary
- Glossary of NHC/TPC Terms
- Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm Spotters
- weather.com English Glossary
- Satellite Meteorology Glossary and List of Acronyms (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Merriam-Webster On Line (includes Thesaurus and Bilingual English/Spanish Dictionary)
Multilingual
- Spain Severe Weather's Bilingual Dictionary of Terms (English/Spanish)
- International Hydrographic Dictionary (DHYDRO's English/Spanish Dictionary)
- Dictionary of Technical Terms Used in Aeronautics of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Aeronáutica
- Glossary of Permafrost and Related Ground Ice Terms (Frozen Ground Data Center; English definitions with numbered entries identifying equivalent terms in Spanish and other languages)
- International Glossary of Hydrology (English index, multilingual glossary)
- International Glossary of Hydrology (Spanish index, multilingual glossary)
- Eumetcal Glossary of Meteorology (English index, 4-language glossary)
- Eumetcal Glossary of Meteorology (Spanish index, 4-language glossary)
- Meteorology Glossary of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Catalan, Spanish, French and English)
- UN Termbase (5 languages, includes meteorology)
- WMO Sea Ice Nomenclature (Spanish/English)
- SEMAR Glossary of Meteorology (México) (English/Spanish)
Topics
Disasters
Hydrology
- Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (Spanish Ministry of the Environment, multilingual site)
Hurricanes
Meteorology
- Solar Almanac (calculates sunrise, sunset, length of day, etc., in Spanish)
- Codes used in meteorology (Spanish descriptions of Metar, TAF, Synops and other codes)
- La meteorología al alcance de todos (Silvia Larocca's meteorology website, in Spanish)
- Meteorology (very complete meteorological explanations in Spanish)
- Weather Satellites (information on weather satellites and satellite products, in Spanish)
- Spain Severe Weather (Spanish)
- weather.com en español
Professional
Professional Associations
- Asociación Aragonesa de Meteorología - ARAMET (Aragon Meteorological Association)
- Asociación Meteorológica Española (Spanish Meteorological Association)
- Asociación Española de Climatología (Spanish Climatology Association)
- Centro Argentino de Meteorólogos (Argentinian Meteorologist Society)
- Colegio de Meteorólogos de Chile (Chile College of Meteorologists)
- Comité Regional de Recursos Hidráulicos (CRRH) (Regional Committee for Hydrological Resources)
- Organización Mexicana de Meteorólogos (Mexican Meteorologist Organization)
- WMO in Spanish
Universities
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales - Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Courses
- TEMPOweb: Biblioteca de Módulos TEMPO (Spain's INM meteorology training modules)
- eumetcal: Access to Spanish modules and glossary
- acqweather: Course in Meteorology for the Young
Publications in Spanish
- Journal of the Asociación Meteorológica Española
- Amateur Meteorologist (Revista del Aficionado de Meteorología, RAM)
National Weather Services
- Argentina: Servicio Meteorólogico Nacional
- Bolivia: Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología
- Brazil: Instituto Nacional de Meteorología
- Colombia: Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales
- Chile: Dirección Meteorológica
- Costa Rica: Instituto Meteorológico Nacional
- Cuba: Instituto de Meteorología
- Dominican Republic: Oficina Nacional de Meteorología
- Ecuador: Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología
- El Salvador: Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales
- Guatemala: Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología
- Honduras: Servicio Meteorólogico Nacional
- Mexico: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
- Nicaragua: Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales
- Panama: Hidrometeorología
- Paraguay: Dirección de Meteorología e Hidrología
- Peru: Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología
- Spain: Instituto Nacional de Meteorología
- United States: National Weather Service
- United States (Puerto Rico): Servicio Nacional de Meteorología
- Uruguay: Dirección Nacional de Meteorología
- Venezuela: Servicio de Meteorología de la Aviación
Tools
- Conocimientos de topografía y cartografía (Vademecum Remer) (elements of topography & cartography in Spanish)
- Unit Conversion (complete, easy to use conversion tool in Spanish)
- Spanish World Guide
- How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
