Ruth Gustafson
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Atmospheric Science
by Ruth Gustafson – May 20, 2022
Welcome to the UC Davis Library subject guide for atmospheric science. This guide provides links to key information resources in air quality, meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and climate dynamics.
FOR UCD students, faculty, and staff: Feel free to book an appointment with Ruth for assistance in using these resources or for any questions you may have. Ruth is continuing with Zoom appointments. (Exceptions will be made if in-person or phone is the only/best option for the requestor.)
Off-Campus Access
- To access licensed library resources from off-campus, please use the library VPN.
[Original Content by Cory Craig, Jennifer (JJ) Harbster, and Carol La Russa]
Library Catalogs
Searching in a library catalog requires looking for broader topics such as methane climate change rather than the more specific agricultural methane emission mitigation.
- UC Library Search: UCD Library Catalog setting
Replacing UCD Library Catalog on July 27, 2021, the new UC Library Search includes all of the UC library collections. This setting is specifically for the UC Davis libraries including (for the first time) the holdings of the Law Library. If you Sign in (on top right corner) using your UCD login and Kerberos passphrase, you are prompted with your loan period, can renew books online, and request items that have been checked out to another borrower, or are in storage.
- Understanding Call Numbers
Author: Library Instruction Services, Shields Library
Library of Congress Classification is used for all of the UCD libraries except the health sciences libraries (which use NLM — National Library of Medicine — classification). Learn about how books are arranged in the UCD libraries with this guide.
Date: 2004
E-Books
International Geophysics book series
Latest volumes are online, earlier are in print
SIAM E-books in Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences
SIAM is the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Science Direct Books in Atmospheric Science
Springer E-Books
Includes more than 60,000 titles in English (and selectively in German) from every scientific discipline and many social sciences. This online interface enables all books to be searchable at the full-text level. New books are added monthly.
Coverage: 2005-2017
Encyclopedias and Reference Resources
The Atmospheric Chemist's Companion
Numerical data for use in the atmospheric sciences
Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments
Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing
Encyclopedia of World Climatology
Meteorological Measurements and Instrumentation
Describes the fundamental scientific principles underlying high quality instrumentation used for environmental measurements. Includes Climate Data Online
Treatise on Geochemistry
Weather and Climate Data
Drought.gov
US drought portal
Global Historical Climatology Network
An integrated database of climate summaries from land surface stations across the globe.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Archive of environmental data including atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data
UC Davis Weather & Climate Stations
Western Regional Climate Center
Disseminates climate data and information for the western United States and is a repository for historical climate data and information
Western United States Historical Climate Summaries
From the Western Regional Climate Center