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Meteorology is the study of the behavior and predictability of the Earth's atmosphere. This guide emphasizes the professional literature, but includes some links for laymen interested in the weather.

Barbara Cox (library subject specialist) | U of U  Meteorology Dept. | Jay Mace (Department Representative)

MAJOR INDEX

Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts
(1930) 1974 - present
Indexes journal articles, technical reports, conference papers, and book chapters from over 600 publications from around the world. Includes "meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and related environmental sciences." UU owns some of the publications indexed, some citations link directly or indirectly to the full text..
Articles from the 1930s-1974 is indexed in printed volumes in Science Reference QC 851 M4.

SPECIALIZED INDEXES

Web of Science
(1955) 1980 - present
Consolidated searching of Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, multidisciplinary databases listing articles in 8500 of the most important scholarly journals. This broad coverage makes it particularly useful for interdisciplinary topics. A distinctive feature is its ability to find articles which have cited a known article or given author in their bibliography. Very up to date. Search by topic, author, journal title, author's institution, cited author, cited work, date. Articles may be earlier if they were CITED from 1997 on - Charles Darwin is in current indexes). Some direct links to fulltext. UU owns many of the journals indexed.
Use online Science Citation Index for 1980 -1997 . Printed indexes cover 1955- (Q 1 A1Z, Science Reference)

American Meteorological Society journals
1945 - present
You can read and search the full text of nine AMS journals online. AMS has laudably done what few other publishers have -- digitized its entire backrun.

Digital Dissertations
1861 - present
Index to doctoral dissertations (and a few masters theses), primarily from the U.S. and Canada. You can download the fulltext for most post-1996 works.

Worldcat
1000 - present
The most comprehensive list of books and other materials held by libraries worldwide.

Oxford Reference Online large, searchable collection of authorative dictionaries and subject encyclopedias from Oxford University Press. e.g.: multilingual dictionaries, Dictionary of Weather, Oxford Companion to the Earth.

Columbia Earthscape
Selects, annotates and links to resources - including scholarly journals, conferences, books, and datasets - of interest to earth scientists and students. Most useful for interdisciplinary or public policy issues like climatic change. Includes full-text of some books from the National Research Council and various university presses

Climate data handbooks
QC 982 section, Science Reference and Science stacks.
Handbooks in this section tabulate average temperature, precipitation and other standard weather data for various locations. Much of this data, especially for the US, is now easily accessible through web resources listed below.

US documents
Federal agencies have historically been key producers and compilers of meteorologic data. Ask Marriott's Documents Library staff for help.

Browsing meteorology books
Many atmospheric science books have the call numbers QC 851 - QC 999.
Books can only sit on one shelf, even though they often cover several topics. Documents from the U.S. federal government are arranged by agency. Some formats, like maps or microforms, need special shelving and are housed separately. Electronic resources don’t sit on any shelf at all. During the library renovation materials will be shifting. All this means it is prudent to use our catalog and indexes. The serendipitous finds when browsing the stacks of a large research library can be rewarding, but it is not an efficient way to do research.

National Weather Service

Utah Weather Center
Current UU campus weather - plus links to lots of other local meteorological information.

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