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Atmospheric Sciences Research Guide

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Library Catalog (CLIC)
The "Creighton Libraries Information Catalog" of books and other materials. Includes more than 35,000 e-books from the ebrary Academic Collection.
http://clic.creighton.edu/
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Articles from thousands of magazines and journals in many different subjects, including the atmospheric sciences (1970s-present).
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Archival and current articles from a dozen American Meteorological Society journals (years vary by source).
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Articles from several thousand journals, including many in the atmospheric sciences and related fields (years vary by source).
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Articles from thousands of journals, including atmospheric sciences. Use Web of Science to find articles that cite a certain author (1977-present).
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Encyclopedias & Reference

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The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology online, including biographies, definitions, citations, and current news.
Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
Theory and applications of atmospheric, ocean, and environmental sciences in six volumes.
Reference Collection QC 854 .E522 2003
Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
Three volume set from Academic Press.
Reference Collection QC 450.3 2000
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Includes: Climate Change - In Context; Water - Science and Issues; Weather Almanac; Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography; and the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics.
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Dictionaries of earth sciences, ecology, geography and weather from Oxford University Press, with brief but authoritative entries.
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Investigates all types of phenomena that change life on Earth, including climate change, with brief but authoritative entries.
Smithsonian Meteorological Tables
Extensive collection of tables, standards and formulas.
Reference Collection QC 879 S6 1951
Weather America
"Thirty-year summary of statistical weather data and rankings" by state.
Reference Collection QC 983 W385 2000
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Government Sites

Daily Weather Maps
Provides daily weather maps 2002 to the present. For maps from 1871-2002, see the U.S. Daily Weather Maps Project
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/frame.html
WINDandSEA
Popular atmospheric and oceanic science links maintained by the NOAA Central Library.
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/windandsea.html
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Web Sites

Global Change Master Directory
"A directory of earth science data" from NASA.
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
UM Weather
Current forecasts, images, and other weather-related links on the Internet.
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
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Associations & Organizations

American Meteorological Society
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/
National Center for Atmospheric Research
http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ncar/
National Climatic Data Center
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/
National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov
 
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