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Academic Search Premier, Indexing and full-text, dates of coverage vary by title (many 1975-present).
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| This interdisciplinary scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study, including: sciences, social sciences, arts & literature, ethnic studies, and many more. Full-text for over 4,600 titles (3,600 peer-reviewed); indexing and abstracting for 8,200 titles; complete historical coverage and citation searching for select titles. |
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| Wilson OmniFile Full-Text: Select, 1994 - present |
| A full-text database of almost 2000 periodical publications, including coverage of the sciences, humanities, education & other social sciences, business and information science. |
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| Access Science |
| Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. |
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| Earth Science World |
| AGI site containing images, time scale, educational, and career information. |
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| Weather Almanac, 11th edition, 2004 |
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| World of Earth Science, (2 v.), 2003 |
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| Natural Disasters, Ref GB5014 .N373 2001 |
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| Extreme Weather Sourcebook |
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| Encyclopedia of Global Change, 2001 |
| Also available in paper copy: Ref GE 149 E47 2002 |
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| The Encyclopedia of Earth |
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| Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, Ref QC854 .A48 2003 |
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| Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Ref QC 854 .E523 1996 |
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| Glossary of Meteorology, Ref QC854 .G55 2000 |
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| Handbook of Atmospheric Science, Ref QC 864 .H36 2003 |
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| Handbook of Applied Meteorology, Ref QC 864 H236 1985 |
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| Guide to Meteorological Instruments and Methods of Observation, Ref QC 876 .G75 1996 |
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| Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water, Ref QC880 .H34 2003 |
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| Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones, Ref QC 944 L66 1998 |
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| National Climatic Data Center |
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| Climatological Data |
| Contains meteorological data collected at weather stations across the United States. Back issues about New York are available in paper (v. 86-current, 1974-1998) in the library's journal collection. Back issues for all other states are available on microfiche (1981-1995) filed in the periodical microfiche collection. |
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| Local Climatological Data |
| Summaries of temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, wind speed, and direction observations for several hundred cities in the U.S. and its territories. Back issues (1983-1993) are on microfiche filed in the periodical microfiche collection. 1994 - 1996 for New York State are available in paper format. |
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| U.S. Daily Weather Maps |
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| National Atmospheric Deposition Program |
| The purpose of the network is to collect data on the chemistry of precipitation for monitoring of geographical and temporal long-term trends. |
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| Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) |
| The Goddard DAAC provides data and related services for global change research and education. |
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| National Weather Service (NWS) |
| The NWS information database provides daily forcasts and warnings for severe weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms, flooding, and tsunamis. |
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| National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) |
| Provides access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources. |
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| National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) |
| Provides geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth's sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space. |
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| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) |
| Provides descriptions of Earth science data sets covering agriculture, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and oceans, snow and ice, geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, and human dimensions of global change. |
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| GHCN Global Climate, Periodicals/Media Desk - Media Reserve QC981.8.C5G49 1998 |
| This database is on CD-ROM and contains long-term, monthly time series of four basic climatic parameters: mean temperature, total precipitation, mean sea level pressure, and mean station pressure. |
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| Weather America: A Thirty-year Summary of Statistical Weather Data and Rankings, Ref QC983 .W385 2000b |
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