Background information on the project can be found here:
Global Energy Balance
General Circulation of the Atmosphere
More advanced notes, based on the Marshall and Plumb undergraduate text book, can be found in:
The Meridional Structure of the Atmosphere
The General Circulation of the Atmosphere.
Background readings:
Virtually Enhanced Fluid Laboratories for Teaching Meteorology
The Nature and Theory of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere -by E. Lorenz
Understanding the Chaotic Nature of Weather
Climatology on the web:
ESRL interface to plot NCEP reanalysis
Instructions for plotting zonally averaged fields (ESRL)
IRI/LDEO Climatology (NCEP Reanalysis)
Climate data (from OORT dataset)