Below is an index to checklists of postal and numismatic items in various weather or weather-related categories. Each page features postal items such as stamps, souvenir sheets, postal stationery, postmarks, cancels, meters, and also cinderellas and cachets from covers when appropriate, as well as numismatic items (banknotes and coins). Our goal is to build an online catalogue for Meteo-Philately (and 
Un-Manned Satellite Philately), available to and shared with anyone who is interested. To date, since these Web checklists were started in 2002, there are over 140 pages and over 11,000 images in our areas of interest. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
Weather and weather-related categories:
- Weather Categories
- World Meteorological Day (WMD) (annually: March 23)
- International Meteorological Centenary (100th anniv. IMO-WMO: 1873-1973)
- World Weather Watch (WWW) and Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW)
- 50th Anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (1950-2000)
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (Does not include WMO-specific (WMD, IMO-WMO Centenary, WWW, GAW, and 50th Anniversary WMO) items in the links directly above.)
- Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP), GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE), and Global Weather Experiment (GWE) (also World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE))
- National weather services, centers, observatories, and their anniversaries (as well as meteorological schools and training facilities, and private meteorological services or organizations)
- Weather modification (rain enhancement, and lightning and hail suppression)
- Weather-Related Programs
- Weather Instruments and Measurements
- Thermometers, temperatures and temperature units
- Barometers, atmospheric pressure and pressure units
- Anemometers, windsocks, wind vanes, and wind measurements
- Weather balloons and radiosondes (and pilot balloons, tracking theodolites, tracking tntennas, and Eole, Argos and other un-manned stratospheric balloons)
- Precipitation (rain and snow) gauges (and evaporation pans, water-depth gauges, and snow-depth measurements)
- Sunshine recorders/heliographs, actinometers, and pyranometers
- Ground-based remote sensing in meteorology (radar, lidar, sodar, etc.)
- Stevenson screens (weather instrument shelters)
- Weather maps (surface and upper-level weather maps, station models, weather symbols, streamlines, and other weather maps)
- Weather Elements
- Meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, and other contributors to meteorology
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Copyright © 2002-2008, Colorado State University. All rights reserved.
This Website created and maintained by Don Hillger and Garry Toth.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the following to the information on this Website: Harry Reynolds, Raino Heino, Bob Kochtubajda, Peter Elias (Airports on Stamps), Amy McCullough (hurricanes), Dave Meier (IGY), Gary Denis (tornados), Valeria Menichini (meteorologists), Robert Greenwald (IGY), John Youle (IGY, IPY, and SCAR), David Stone (Newton), George Fox (Theophrastus), Charles Glenn (tornadoes), Blanton Clement, Jr. (WMO), Charles Schollenberger (IGY), and Peter Douglas (IPY). Images of some of the IPY stamps and coins were taken from Pobjoy Mint press releases.
Updated: 2008-07-20
