Information Resources for Climatology

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Meteorological & Geoastrophysics Abstracts
- Indexes the worldwide literature of meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Summaries from 600+ journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs. 1974- present.
Geobase
- Worldwide bibliographic database on geography, geology, and ecology. 900,000 records. 1980 - present.
Pollution Abstracts
- Index to articles, conference proceedings, and documents on scientific research and government policies relating to all aspects of pollution. 1981 - present.
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
- Interdisciplinary coverage of journal articles and documents in the environmental sciences. 1981- present.
Water and Climate Bibliography
- Pacific Institute's database of scientific literature pertaining to climate change and freshwater resources worldwide. Includes abstracts where available.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
NTIS
- Index to U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, engineering, and business-related information from 1960.
Science Citation Index
- Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 5,700 journals, from 1965- present
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SciFinder Scholar (Full Access)
- Chemical Abstracts and Registry File online from 1907. The premier database for searching chemicals and chemistry-related issues. (UNR NetID required)
WorldCat
- A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.

Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
- Covers all major aspects of atmospheric science and related subjects such as oceanography and hydrology. Includes recently established fields such as atmospheric chemistry and global climate change as well as the traditional topics of atmospheric dynamics, cloud physics, and weather forecasting.
Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
- Covers the physical processes that drive the oceans and the chemical, biological, and geological regimes, methods of studying the oceans, from ship-based systems to satellite remote sensing, and ancillary topics such as the law of the oceans, use of the oceans for food and energy, and the impact of pollution and climate change.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- The most comprehensive source for data and constants in physics and chemistry. Searchable by names, properties, and sections.