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ATM S 211: Spring Quarter 2008
Climate and Climate Change


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Global warming
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):

U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)

EPA Global Warming site

NPR: Climate Connections

New York Times
 + Global warming articles
 + Series on the Energy Challenge

Reports to the Nation on Our Changing Planet: Our changing climate

Global Warming and the Third World: Theme Sites

RealClimate: Climate Scientists Blog

From RealClimate: Links debunking most of the common points of confusion and skepticism about global warming:

Global warming and energy sources
International Energy Agency: Lots of information

World Energy Assessment: Energy and the challenge of sustainability

Climate & Weather data
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.

El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Reports to the Nation on Our Changing Planet: El Niño and climate prediction

National Geographic El Niño / La Niña: Nature's vicious cycle (May 1999)

American Library Association compilation of WWW sites

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Paleoclimate (plate tectonics, glaciers, volcanoes)

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program

The North Dakota State University Library compendium of WWW links on climate change

Stratospheric Ozone

Reports to the Nation on Our Changing Planet: Our ozone shield

Environmental Effects of Ozone depletion (UNEP 2006 Assessment):
     Twenty Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer

NASA Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

 

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