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Message from Nabeel Keblawi:
Thank you for visiting Weather Link Hub.
This site aims to be a central hub for accessing countless atmospheric and oceanic datasets, models, products, and
resources scattered all over the Internet. Before I created this site,
a single central
site where nearly all of these resources can be accessed did not exist.
Weather
Link Hub actually takes it further than merely linking to these resources by:
- Selecting only the top-quality sites
- Linking to universities and businesses
dealing with atmospheric & oceanic sciences
- Setting up an easy-to-navigate
organizational structure
- Giving site evaluations, brief
introductions, and reviews for each link where necessary
A little background about myself: I was
raised in the Washington, DC metropolitan area throughout most of my life,
and I was fortunate enough to live in a place where all four distinct
seasons could be experienced in the course of a year. I became
fascinated with the weather while I was growing up, experiencing heat waves,
thunderstorms, lightning, hail, heavy rains, wind, and blizzards - all in
the suburbs of Washington, DC. Through all of this, I had wondered how the
weather worked and how weathermen were able to predict what was going to
happen within a couple days to even a week (with some accuracy).
Although my strongest skills were in math and science throughout my
education, it wasn't until the year 2003, after I graduated with a Bachelors
of Science in Information Technology, when I realized that my true passion
lies in Meteorology and related fields in the broad discipline of
Environmental Science. I decided to attend graduate school to get a
Masters and a Doctorate in this field.
In 2006, I received a Masters of Science in
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland in College
Park, Maryland. In the short term, I hope to be involved with
improving weather/climate forecasting and tailoring these forecasts for specific
customers; please view my
research interests
for more information. It is also my hopes that
this will lead to a career involving shifting our lifestyle to using
renewable energies, and/or mitigation of natural disasters which seem to be
increasing in frequency due to sharply expanding infrastructure in high-risk
areas that are prone to natural disasters.
Meanwhile, I created this site for my
personal use, simply to find what I needed depending on the task at
hand. I hope you also find this site useful. Thank you for using the Weather
Link Hub!
For more information about my
education, qualifications, and experience, please view
my resume and
track my
credentials. In February 2007, I was recognized as one of the
professional meteorologists who posts at a popular
EasternUSWX weather
chat forum in an
article
entitled
'Snow
lovers share frustration on chat board' written by the Philadelphia
Inquirer Staff Writer Anthony R. Wood.
Happy forecasting,
Nabeel Keblawi |