Library Guides: Meteorology Research Guide: Basic Resources

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 link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
This is a collection of more than 12,000 newspapers and other news sources from nearly 200 countries, from 1980 to the present. It provides full-text access to several major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles. Almost 20 different languages are represented. Platform is updated daily making it good source for current events.

Access World News tutorial

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Guide created on March 27, 2008.

Text last updated on May 29, 2014.

Links checked May 29, 2014.