Weather & Climate

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Finding information resources on various aspects of Weather and Climate at the UCI Libraries can take different paths. This brief pathfinder will direct you to a range of resources to support many interests and interdisciplinary directions and intersections. The subject emphases can be that of earth science, meteorology, biological and environmental sciences, and ecology.

To find books, you may want to begin by searching Antpac for these examples of selective Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Climatic change
• Weather
• Storms
• Cyclones, Hurricanes, Typhoons
• Tornadoes
• Meteorology
• Cold waves (Meteorology)
• Fronts (Meteorology)
• Precipitation (Meteorology)
• Crime and weather
• Droughts
• Fire weather
• Global Weather Experiment Project
• Humidity
• Long-range weather forecasts
• Storms
• Winds

Reference Works, Databases & Recent Releases - Resources at UCI Libraries (* means restricted to UCI affiliates; SL=Science Library; LL=Langson Library)

• Web of Science* - major indexing tool for scholarly science coverage; suggest restricting search to the Science Citation Index (1900+) or the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956+) only depending on the subject emphasis you seek and limiting years of coverage as needed
• Columbia earthscape: an online resource on the global environment* Provides full-text information resources related to education and research in the earth sciences and public policy, including papers, conference, journal abstracts, books and databases.
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management* - major indexing tool for journal coverage of environmental sciences
• BIOSIS* - Indexes and abstracts the life sciences literature as well as that of ecology and environment on a global scale
• Encyclopedia of Earth An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.
• AccessScience* - the online equivalent of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
• GeoBase* - indexes journals and abstracts in the fields of ecology, environmental science, geology, etc.
• GeoRef* - Indexes publications in geology, seismology, marine geology, geophysics, geochemistry, geological maps, hydrology, & archaeology
• PAIS International* - indexes books, book chapters, journal literature and government information on public administration and public policy issues related to environmental sustainability
• Source OECD* - international coverage available via the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change - reference with information on conservation and environmental problems
• Encyclopedia of Global Change* - new encyclopedia that covers 300 entries on a global scale.

E-Book Collections

1. CRCnetBase* - Collection of full-text books from CRC Press; recommend searching in EnviroNetBase and then under Climate; retrieval at chapter level based on relevancy
2. Knovel* - Large collection of engineering and chemistry full-text books from a variety of publishers, under Weather and Climate.
3. National Academies Press - The research programs and publications presented and issued by the National Academies are an excellent source of information and are freely available and explore different aspects of sustainability.

Government Sources - Local, California, United States, International coverage

1. NOAA Climate
2. NOAA Weatherwatch – Daily Briefing
3. U.S. Climate Change Science Program (EPA)
4. Envirofacts: Data Warehouse and Applications
5. EPA Publications
6. Science.gov
7. Worldwide Science - global science gateway

Subject Guides & UCI Information

1. Earth System Science
2. Biology - Ecology & Environmental
3. Economics
4. Environmental Sciences

Blogs, Directories and Other Sources of Information on Weather and Climate

1. List of Blogs
2. Climate Change (UCI)
3. National Climatic Data Center
4. NOAA Research Organization

Prepared by Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth System Science and Russian Studies (mcbrown@uci.edu) July 20, 2009