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- Climatological Data

Online Access: On Campus OnlyFrom the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

- Climatological Data is provided by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center. While free climatological data are available, a username and password are needed to access other subscription publications. Please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk to access these datasets.
Subscribed publications include:
- Annual Edited Local Climatological Data, PDF
- Climatological Data, One State
- Edited Local Climatological Data
- Hourly Precipitation Data
- Monthly Climatic Data for the World
- Storm Data
Database provider: The National Climatic Data Center of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: National Climatic Data Center
- Online Access: Available only in the Main and Science Libraries, and the Student Learning Center. Please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.
- Location: Science Library Only
- Available only in the Main and Science Libraries, and the Student Learning Center. Please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xncd-uga1
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- Climatological Data is provided by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center. While free climatological data are available, a username and password are needed to access other subscription publications. Please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk to access these datasets.
Related / Narrower Databases
- CIRRUSWeb (Southeast Regional Climate Center)

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Southeast regional weather data.

- CIRRUSWeb provides regional data and products for all of the SERCC's service area: the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Climate data recorded at varying intervals are made available in a timely manner: hourly data are available for over 200 stations, and data from a number of these stations are collected on a daily basis. Over a thousand stations throughout the Southeast U.S. are included in the historical data base. Data and information originate from the National Weather Service Weather Wire, the Climate Analysis Center, the National Climatic Data Center, and state weather networks in the Southeast.
Database providers: Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC), the National Climatic Data Center and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
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- Coverage Dates: 1890 to the present
- Updated: Hourly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ovid
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xcir-uga1
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- CIRRUSWeb provides regional data and products for all of the SERCC's service area: the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Climate data recorded at varying intervals are made available in a timely manner: hourly data are available for over 200 stations, and data from a number of these stations are collected on a daily basis. Over a thousand stations throughout the Southeast U.S. are included in the historical data base. Data and information originate from the National Weather Service Weather Wire, the Climate Analysis Center, the National Climatic Data Center, and state weather networks in the Southeast.
- GeoRef and GeoRef In Process

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index and abstracts to articles, books, maps, reports, and other literature on the geosciences.

- GeoRef and GeoRef In Process provide bibliographic citations to journal and conference literature in the geographical and geological sciences. GeoRef covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. GeoRef In Process contains records that are, literally, in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in the main GeoRef database. The majority of the records originate from non-English language literature that was not necessarily published recently.
- Coverage Dates: 1693-current
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ProQuest-CSA
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=geoo-uga1
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Broader Databases
- Academic Search Complete

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.

- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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- ScienceDirect

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from scholarly journals on all the sciences, including the social sciences.

- ScienceDirect provides full text access to scholarly journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries.
- Coverage Dates: 1995 - present (Academic Press journals: 1996 - present)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: Elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xsdi-uga1
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- Web of Science (at Web of Knowledge)

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Provides access to the combined Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

- Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering over 8,000 journal. These three databases can be searched separately, in any combination, or all at once. These databases are unique in that the user can search to find which articles have cited a certain author or article. This technique of doing research, called pearl growing, allows researchers to find articles that are related to an earlier work. Often this technique turns up articles which are not found through traditional subject and keyword searches.
- Coverage Dates: 1945- (Science Citation Index); 1956- (Social Science Citation Index); 1975- (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: isi
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xwos-uga1
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Books
- GIL Library Catalog
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Search the UGA Libraries catalog for books, journals, CD-ROMs, and other media. Use title, author or subject searches, or perform a keyword search.
- URL: http://gil.uga.edu
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- NetLibrary (full-text electronic books)

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.A collection of electronic books (eBooks) on most topics, including computers and technology.

- NetLibrary provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. There is no checkout period for NetLibrary eBooks.
Users can create an account in order to use personalization tools, including creating a Favorites list, but a personal account is not required for accessing eBooks through the GALILEO interface. A personal login is required when accessing through library catalogs and through the NetLibrary web site.
NetLibrary Titles Index for Shared Collections 1 and 2 (at SOLINET).
Database provider: NetLibrary, a Division of OCLC.
- Coverage Dates: Currently available
- Updated: Collections are closed.
- Database Provider: netlibrary
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zmnl
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- NetLibrary provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. There is no checkout period for NetLibrary eBooks.
- WorldCat

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Huge catalog of books and other materials held by libraries worldwide.

- The WorldCat database is the world's most comprehensive bibliography with bibliographic records representing information spanning 4,000 years of knowledge. It is the OCLC Online Union Catalog of information contributed by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries worldwide.
The OCLC NetFirst database has been integrated into WorldCat. NetFirst bibliographic citations describe Internet-accessible resources, including World Wide Web pages, interest groups, library catalogs, FTP sites, Internet services, electronic journals, and newsletters. NetFirst is no longer available as a separate database.
WorldCat listings include netLibrary ebook records.
- Coverage Dates: Approx. 1000 A.D. to the present
- Updated: Daily
- Database Provider: firstsearch
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zowc
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- The WorldCat database is the world's most comprehensive bibliography with bibliographic records representing information spanning 4,000 years of knowledge. It is the OCLC Online Union Catalog of information contributed by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries worldwide.
Conference Papers/Proceedings
- Conference Papers Index

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.For scientific and technical proceedings.

- Coverage includes scientific and technical proceedings in animal and plant science, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, experimental medicine, geology, marine science, mathematics, and pharmacology.
- See also: zccp:Backup Site (Ohio)
- Coverage Dates: 1989 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: Cambridge
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zccp
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- PapersFirst (conference papers)

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index of papers presented at conferences.

- The PapersFirst database provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide, PapersFirst is a major new research aid, covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast proceedings collection since October 1993. Users may order the full text of papers cited in PapersFirst from The British Library using the FirstSearch online ordering service.
- Coverage Dates: 1993 to present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: firstsearch
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zopi
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- ProceedingsFirst (conference proceedings)

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index of conference proceedings.

- The ProceedingsFirst database provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each ProceedingsFirst record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.
- Coverage Dates: 1993 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: firstsearch
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zop1
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Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
- Dictionary of Global Climate Change
Call Number: MainRef QC981.8.C5M38 1992
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection

- Elsevier's Dictionary of Climatology and Meteorology in English, French, Spanish
Call Number: SciRef QC854.L83 1994
- Location: Science Library Reference Collection

- Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather
Call Number: SciRef QC854.E523 1996
- This two volume work provides quick overviews for topics in climatology and meteorology. The articles have bibliographic references and are illustrated by photographs and diagrams.
- Location: Science Library Reference Collection

- Glossary of Meteorology
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- The electronic version of the second edition of the Glossary with more than 12,000 terms. Published and supported by the American Meteorological Society.
- URL: http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/
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- Meteorological Glossary
Call Number: SciRef QC854.G7 1991
- Location: Science Library Reference Collection

- WeatherPost
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Extensive resource providing a glossary of weather terms, forecasts, weather news, radar and satellite images.
- URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/
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Directories
- Atmospheric Science Graduate School Directories
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Gradschools.com is a service of Educational Directories Unlimited, Inc. It is a system, highlighted by a World Wide Web site dedicated to post-baccalaureate educational programs. The site is arranged in a directory format with listings categorized by curriculum, then where necessary, subdivided by geography. Users select their desired curriculum and receive pages of information over their computer through browser software such as Netscape's Navigator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer or America On-line's web browser. Pages contain listings of program providers, both free listings and paid links.
- URL: http://www.gradschools.com/listings/menus/atmospheric_menu.html
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Government Publications
- Foreign Climate Data (NOAA Central Library)
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Historical climatological data from around the world. Coverage ranges from the 1830s through the 1970s with most data from the period prior to 1960. Each series typically includes observations for a number of meteorological and other geophysical parameters, including daily and monthly observations, as well as monthly and annual means.
- URL: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/data_rescue_home.html
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- World Data Center System
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Includes solar, geophysical and related environmental data.
- URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/wdcmain.html
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Guides/Handbooks
- Statewide Average Climatic History
Call Number: SciRef J84 C55.287/61
- Compiled by the National Climatic Data Center this volume provides records from the late 1800's through 1982. Time series plots and tables are presented for temperature and precipitation. Additional tables address population weighted heating and cooling degree days and drought indexes.
- Location: Science Library Reference Collection

- Trends '90: A Compendium of Data on Global Change
Call Number: SciRef folio QC981.8.G56T8 1990
- Prepared by the Carbon dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, this handbook looks at ozone depletion in the atmosphere and its impact on weather and temperature.
- Location: Science Library Reference Collection

Maps/Atlases
- Climatic Atlas of the United States
Call Number: Science 1st floor Map Room J84: C55.281/2-2:C61/CD/DISK
- Contains 737 color maps which provide information on temperature, precipitation, wind, barometric pressure, humidity, dewpoint, sunshine, skycover, and solar radiation. Compiled by the National Climatic Data Center.
- Location: Science Library Only

- Current Analyses & Observations COLA/IGES
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Daily online weather maps are created based on data supplied by the National Weather Service. In addition to maps for the current day, the site provides forecast maps for the next three days.
- URL: http://wxmaps.org/
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- National Atlas of the United States (online)
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- This site is the successor to the 1970 print National Atlas updated to include more recent data. An Interactive Map Browser allows the user to superimpose map layers on a map of the United States. Layers include agricultural, biological, demographic, environmental, and other factors.
- URL: http://nationalatlas.gov/index.html
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Organizations/Associations
- American Meteorological Society
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Provides information about the work of the Society, career opportunities and the society's newsletter.
- URL: http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/
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- Global Change Data Center
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- This site describes NASA's efforts to collect data on global warming.
- URL: http://www-tsdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcdc/gcdc.html
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- International Society of Biometeorology
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- The International Society of Biometeorlogy provides one international organization for the promotion of interdisciplinary collaboration of meteorologists, physicians, physicists, biologists, climatologists, ecologists and other scientists and to promote the development of biometeorology.
- URL: http://biometeorology.org
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- National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Homepage
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Provides a variety of weather data sets and analytical reports. Contains links to a number of databases and sources from other agencies.
- URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
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- National Geophysical Data Center Homepage
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Provides access to datasets (including satellite imagery) and metadata information from a number of government agencies and other data sources. Besides standard meterological and climate data this site provides a variety of climate related geophysical data.
- URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
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- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- The Center's site outlines projects that they are funding to study the impact of climate change on the environment and business.
- URL: http://www.pewclimate.org/
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Statistics
- Georgia Climate Information
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- For 30 locations throughout Georgia, this sites provides historical data from 1948 to the present. Also sives selected statewide data, such as statewide monthly temperature averages.
- URL: http://weather.ggy.uga.edu/gcliinfo.html
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- LexisNexis Statistical

Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Statistics published by the U.S. government and other agencies

- LexisNexis Statistical consists of:
- Search Tables Base Edition: selected statistical tables drawn mainly from sources published by the U.S. government since about 1998.
- Search Abstracts:
- American Statistics Index (ASI) abstracts (1970-) and full text (ca 2004-) of Federal government sources
- Statistical Reference Index (SRI) abstracts (1980-) of state and private sources
- Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstracts (1983-) of international and inter-governmental sources
Coverage ranges across many topics including income, production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, demographics, energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, medicine, and education.
- Coverage Dates: 1970s-
- Updated: Biannually
- Database Provider: cis
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xstu-uga1
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- LexisNexis Statistical consists of:
- National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Homepage
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Provides a variety of weather data sets and analytical reports. Contains links to a number of databases and sources from other agencies.
- URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
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- World Weather Records
Call Number: See below for location details.
- Science J84 SI 1.7:no. 79 (1700s (depending on location)-1920), J84 SI 1.7:no. 90 (1921-1930), J84 SI 1.7:no. 105 1931-1940),J84 C30.2/W89 (1941-1960), J84 C55.281/W89/961-70 (1961-1970), J84 C55.281/W89/971-80 (1971-1980)
- Location: Science Library Government Document Stacks

Web Subject Guides
- Environmental Protection Agency. Global Warming
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Provides a listing of publications, a FAQ fact sheet, and links to other sites.
- URL: http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming
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- Georgia State Climatology Office (University of Georgia)
Online Access: On/Off CampusClimate data, both current and historic, for Georgia.

- Climate information of historic or long-term weather data, to monitor current climate conditions around the state, and to conduct research into topics related to Georgia.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=geo4-uga1
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- Global Environment
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Focuses on environmental impacts such as ozone depletion, wildlife extinction, and population migrations. From The Union of Concerned Scientists page, choose 'Global Environment' from the pull-down menu at the bottom of the page.
- URL: http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/index.cfm
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- Global Warming Links
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- URL: http://members.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/globalwarming.html
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- Key Databases for Oceanography and Earth Sciences
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Useful for resources in oceanography, climatology and geosciences.
- URL: http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/library.html
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- UM Weather
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- Provides forecasts, amps, radar and satellite images. Includes links to over 350 other sources of weather information.
- URL: http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
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- Woods Hole Research Center. Warming of the Earth
Online Access: On/Off Campus
- This site explains the effect of warming on the ocean and its inhabitants and contains links to other sites.
- URL: http://www.whrc.org
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