Educypedia

This online 'educypedia' provides an extensive list of climate animation links:

http://www.educypedia.be/education/climateanimations.htm

A high speed hydrological cycle

http://www.piercecollege.com/offices/weather/flash/hydrocycle.swf

Interactive Lapse Rates graph

Ideal for AS/A2:
http://www.piercecollege.com/offices/weather/flash/lapserates.swf

Air parcel's orographic uplift up a mountain slope

http://www.piercecollege.com/offices/weather/flash/orographiclift.swf

Animated Climate Map

Thanks to Alan Parkinson for finding this gem:
"Very nice animated climate map http://www.vattenfall.com/climatemap/
Link from item in May's (2007) National Geographic, which also features fascinating article on Dharavi in India, and photo essay on US Mexico border..."

Edumedia

Edumedia offers a few Earth Science animations but you have to subscribe:
http://www.edumedia-sciences.com/index.php5?l=2
Here is a mantle convection demo:
http://www.edumedia-sciences.com/_a399_l2-mantle-convection.html

National Grid for Learning Cymru

N The National Grid for Learning Cymru is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and is managed by Curriculum Data Wales. The site has a number of excellent animations:
Click here

Topographic simulation

This is a real-time 3D simulation from Prentice Hall that illustrates how topographic maps are created and used to depict changes in elevation. Students are able to sculpt mountains and valleys in real-time and see the changes to the corresponding topographic map.
http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/topo/topo.htm

Topographic simulation

This is a real-time 3D simulation from Prentice Hall that illustrates how topographic maps are created and used to depict changes in elevation. Students are able to sculpt mountains and valleys in real-time and see the changes to the corresponding topographic map.
http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/topo/topo.htm

Earthquake animation from the Edinburgh Earth Observatory

View earthquakes over the last month as an animation (magnitude 4 or above).
CLICK

Katrina Time Animation in Google Earth

From Google Earth blog - a link to a stunning animation of Katrina (needs GE4)
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/09/katrina_time_animati.html

Hurricane animation

Courtesy of a NASA website:
http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/kids/Problem_Board/problems/weather/hurricanebasics.swf

The Globe Unwrapped and Holey Moley

Interactive animations from the Oxfam UK site. The Globe from different angles and what it looks like flattened out and journey through the earth with Holey Moley:
Click for Globe Unwrapped!
Click for Holey Moley!

Cold and warm front animation

From the University of Illinois' site:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/gifs/fpr2.gif
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/gifs/fpr4.gif
Check out some the Online Guides on this site also:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

Great Interactive Glacial Valley Animation

http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/elearning/module13swf.swf
Thanks to the University of Kentucky for this one.

Tectonics animations

Thanks to Rob Chambers for this link:
http://animations.geol.ucsb.edu/downloads.php

Water Cycle from the BBC

CLICK

Glacier Animation from University of Wisconsin

This link starts a short animation showing debris transport by an alpine glacier and the formation of a terminal and a recessional moraine. It requires the Shockwave plugin to work properly.
CLICK

Carleton College Geoscience Faculty

Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively
Guidelines and "Visualizations" on variety of topics including glaciation, flooding, tornado formation.
CLICK

Curriculum bits

Animations on coastal processes, types of rainfall and waterfall formation.
http://www.curriculumbits.com/products.php?cat=23