Links
contents:
Air
pollution data & climate
& Weather Data
Regional
Air pollution
Puget Sound Clean Air
Agency
Washington State Department of Ecology
Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA):
- EPA Office of transportation and air quality
- EPA Office of Air and Radiation
- EPA Office of Air and Radiation publications
- EPA Office of Air and Radiation: Indoor air quality
- The plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act
- Visibility
- Air pollution
emissions
U.S. Department of Energy
Environment Canada: Clean Air Online
Air pollution and health
American Lung Association: Air quality
American Lung Association: Air quality reports
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Air quality
Air pollution data
Local
air quality:
- Washington Air Quality Now (Real-time air quality data from Wash DOE)
- Puget Sound Air Quality (Graphics from PSCAA)
- Puget Sound Ozone Forecasts from WSU (AIRPACT)
- Washington
State Department of Ecology, data by county
- Seattle Visibility Cam
National air
quality:
AIRNow
National Park
Service:
UW Atmospheric Sciences weather information
Climates of hundreds of U.S. cities from the Climate Diagnostic Center.
From the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Oceans (JISAO) web site:
Western Regional Climate Center web page: Climate statistics (max-min temperatures, precipitation, etc...) for the state of Washington, and for other states in the Western U.S.The ultimate web search engine: Google
World Meteorological
Organization (WMO): Global Atmosphere Watch
WMO: 20
questions & answers about the ozone layer
Reports
to the Nation on Our Changing Planet: Our ozone shield
Environmental
Effects of Ozone depletion (UNEP 1998 Assessment)
NASA
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
Global
warming
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
- IPCC Working Group I "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis", download a PDF file of the Summary for Policy Makers
- IPCC Working Group II "Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", download a PDF file of the Summary for Policy Makers
- IPCC Working Group IiI "Climate Change 2001: Mitigation", download a PDF file of the Summary for Policy Makers
Reports
to the Nation on Our Changing Planet: Our changing climate
University
of East Anglia
The
North Dakota State University Library compendium of WWW links on
climate
change
Online magazines and reports
CONSEQUENCES online magazine:
- Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lessons from the Geologic Record, by Thomas J. Crowley
- The Sun And Climate, by Judith Lean and David Rind
- Beyond Kyoto: Toward A Technology Greenhouse Strategy, by James A. Edmonds
- The Carbon Cycle, Climate, And The Long-Term Effects Of Fossil Fuel Burning , by James F. Kasting
- From A Carbon Economy To A Mixed Economy: A Global Opportunity, by Richard C. Rockwell
- Climate, Ecology, and Human Health, by Paul R. Epstein
- Impacts of a Projected Depletion of the Ozone Layer, by Frank R. de Gruijl
- Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Supply, by Cynthia Rosenzweig and Daniel Hillel
- Trends in U.S. Climate during the Twentieth Century, by Thomas R. Karl, Richard W. Knight, David R. Easterling, Robert G. Quayle
Reports
to the Nation on Our Changing Planet
A series of reports on the climate
system;
the ozone shield; El Niño and climate prediction; and on the
changing
climate.
Opinion: environmental advocate groups
Opinion: skeptics Last
Updated:
08/25/2005