Locating Books:

Searching: To locate books at PSU on a specific topic in your field, search The CAT using a keyword search. Never used The CAT before? Stop by the reference desk or visit Getting Started with the CAT for more detailed instructions or quick tips and tricks!

Browsing: Interested in browsing areas in our collection related to your field? Some books in your field can be found in the following call number areas:

Search for books on meteorology in The CAT!

Search for books on oceanography in The CAT!

Locating Journals:

Browse the list of over 900 journals found in the Earth and Mineral Science Library, search the CAT for a particular journal title, or check out a couple of the journals recommended for your particular discipline in the list below:

Locating Journal Articles:

Search for journal articles on a particular topic in your subject area by using one of these databases:

Selected Resources:

Data Repositories

• National Climatic Data Center's Online Climate Data. Locate surface data (monthly, weekly, daily, radar data), upper-air data, marine data and climatology and extreme weather events.
• NNDC Climate Data Online, searchable by county, geographic region, data set/product, station name or map services. Some of the types of available data are precipitation data, surface data and satellite data.
• Carbon Dioxide Information Access Center, To search for data, use this CDIAC search engine.
• Global Change Master Directory, this site contains links to a variety of kinds of data sets by topic, such as agriculture or atmosphere.
• NOAAServer. Access to distributed NOAA data and information
• National Data Buoy Center NDBC "designs, develops, operates, and maintains a network of data collecting buoys and coastal stations." Click on the map for station data. Information such as wind speed, direction, dew point and air temperature are available.
• National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, links to environmental data from satellites.
• National Geophysical Data Center, links to a variety of data such as data from the upper atmosphere and space to tsunami and earthquake data.
• National Oceanographic Data Center contains data on things like beach temperatures, coastal buoy data, ocean currents and salinity.
• U.S. HCN (Historic Climate Network) Precipitation Data
• World Data Center System site "includes a wide range of solar, geophysical, environmental, and human dimensions data. These data cover timescales ranging from seconds to millennia and they provide baseline information for research in many ICSU disciplines, especially for monitoring changes in the geosphere and biosphere—gradual or sudden, foreseen or unexpected, natural or man-made."
• World Data Centre for Meteorology includes "meteorological and nuclear radiation data for International Geophysical Year (IGY)(see IGY Annuals, Vol.26); meteorological data and data products from Global Atmospheric Research Program, World Climate Research Program, World Climate Data and Monitoring Program; and data (including data publications) exchanged with the WDC by participating countries."

Digital Collections

• American Meteorological Society Publications
• National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Publications
• National Sea Grant Library
• NOAA Central Library Climate Data Imaging Project
• NOAA Climate Publications
  • Includes access to PDF volumes of Monthly Climatic Data for the World, Storm Data, Local Climatological Data, Climatological Data, & Hourly Precipitation Data. Coverage will vary. Follow "limited access" or "free access" links.

Climate Change

• Canadian Global Change Program (CGCP)
• CIESIN. Center for International Earth Science Information Network.
• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators
• Global Change Master Directory
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC)
• International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Includes information on the Kyoto Protocol.
• U.S. Global Change Research Program
• World Data Center - for Paleoclimatology

Miscellaneous

• American Association of State Climatologists
• Bad Meteorology
• El Nino (NOAA)
• El Nino (NOVA special from PBS)
• El Nino's effect on anchovy fisheries
• Hurricane and Tropical Data
• International Station Meteorological Climate Summary. (See the CAT record to locate this book.)
• Meteorological Disasters
• National Meteorological Offices & Agencies
• National Weather Services (Worldwide)
• Ocean Portal
• The Tornado Project Online
• USA Today's Weather Almanac. (See the CAT record to locate this book.)
• Weather Almanac. (See the CAT record to locate this book.)
• Weather Links
• WINDandSEA (NOAA Central Library). The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator
• WMO Technical Library
• World Meteorological Organization