Library Guides: Meteorology Research Guide: Basic Resources

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[Updated 12/09/2020]

Introduction

Jetstream - Online School for Weather
From the National Weather Service - introductory information on almost any aspect of weather.
Weather 101
Tutorials, glossaries, and a section on do-it-yourself weather predicting.
Weather Almanac
The almanac presents hundreds of in-depth weather records for 108 major U.S. cities and a climatic overview of the country, including 33 U.S. weather atlas maps.

Basic Resources

Once you have chosen a topic - pick one of the resources listed below. Items listed here are basictools useful for finding journal, magazine, and newspaper articles relevant to meteorology.

Academic Search Ultimate
This database covers almost all subject areas and is especially good at interdisciplinary areas. Good place to start for class assignments. It contains full text articles for more than 6,500 journals.
Access World News
Providing access to a comprehensive collection of over 2,000 newspapers and news sources from around the world. Information is translated into English when original is written in another language.