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Below is an index to checklists of postal and numismatic items in various Weather and Climate 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 available to and shared with anyone who is interested. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
| Weather Programs and Organizations | |
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 | World Meteorological Day (WMD) (annually: 23 March) |
 | International Meteorological Centenary (100th anniv. IMO-WMO: 1873 — 1973) |
 | 50th Anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (1950 — 2000) |
| World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (does not include IMO-WMO-specific (WMD, IMO-WMO Centenary, WWW, GAW, and 50th Anniversary WMO) items in the links directly above.) |
 | World Weather Watch (WWW) (1963 →) and Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) (1989 →) |
  | Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) (1960s →), GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) (1974), and Global Weather Experiment (GWE) (1978 — 1979) (also World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) (1990 — 1998)) |
 | National weather services, centers, and observatories (and their anniversaries, as well as meteorological schools and training facilities, meteorological outreach, private meteorological services or organizations, and meteorological societies) |
| Weather-Related Programs | |
  | International Polar Year (IPY) (1st: 1882 — 1883; 2nd: 1932 — 1933; 3rd: see IGY; 4th: 2007 — 2008) |
 | International Geophysical Year (IGY) (1957 — 1958) |
 | International Quiet Sun Year (IQSY) (1964 — 1965) |
 | International Heliophysical Year (IHY) (2007 — 2009) |
  | International Hydrological Decade (IHD) (1965 — 1974) |
 | International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) (1990s) |
 | Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (PUOS) |
  | Mission To Planet Earth (MTPE) |
 | Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) |
| Weather Instruments and Atmospheric Measurements | |
 | Thermometers, temperatures and temperature units |
 | Hygrometers, and atmospheric humidity measurement and units |
 | Barometers, atmospheric pressure and pressure units |
  | Anemometers, windsocks, and wind vanes (also wind measurements, and wind towers) |
 | Weather balloons and radiosondes (and pilot balloons, tracking theodolites, tracking antennas and equipment, and Eole isentropic, and un-manned stratospheric balloons) |
  | Precipitation (rain and snow) gauges (plus evaporation pans, water-depth gauges, snow-depth measurements, and precipitation amounts) |
 | Sunshine recorders/heliographs, actinometers, and pyranometers (and signaling heliographs) |
 | Ground-based remote sensing in meteorology (radar, lidar, sodar, etc.) |
 | Stevenson screens (weather instrument shelters) |
  | Automatic weather observing stations (land autostations, and ocean buoys) |
 | Ocean weather ships |
 | Weather research aircraft |
 | Atmospheric research rockets (sub-orbital) |
| Weather Phenomena | |
 | Clouds and skies (only items with clear intent to show clouds) |
 | Tornadoes, waterspouts, and dustdevils |
 | Hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones (and tropical cyclone relief overprints) |
| Other Weather-Related Categories | |
 | Weather maps (surface and upper-level weather maps, station models, weather symbols, vertical cross-sections, and streamlines) |
  | Satellite remote sensing of the Earth-atmosphere system: Images, instruments, and techniques |
 | Atmospheric water cycle |
 | Ozone (O3) (including World Ozone Day, annually: 16 September; Vienna Convention, 1985; and Montréal Protocol, 1987) |
  | Weather modification (rain enhancement, and hail and lightning suppression) |
 | General references to weather (not found in any other category) |
| Climatology | |
 | Climatic regions and climate-related maps |
 | Climate-related international conferences |
  | Anthropogenic climate change (including greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, and global warming) |
  | Natural climate change and variability |
| Climate programs, institutes, and research |
| Other references to climate and climatology (not found in any other category) |
 | Preserve the Polar Regions and Glaciers (PPRG) |
 | Drought and desertification |
 | Flood-related |
| Meteorologists, Climatologists, Atmospheric Scientists, and other Contributors to Meteorology and Climatology | |
 | Chronological and alphabetical indexes
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 | Climatologists and contributors to climatology |
| Total: 45+ major divisions | |
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