Books
Browse print books on atmospheric science and meteorology topics.
Browse our eBooks on atmospheric science and meteorology topics.
Journal Titles
If you have a citation to an article, type the journal title into the library catalog to find out what years of the journal are available at PSU.
For help decoding journal abbreviations check out the CASSI Journal Abbreviations search tool.
Browse the Shelves
Most books on meteorology and atmospheric science have QC call numbers.
- General Atmospheric Science: QC 851-974
- Climatology and Weather: QC 980-999
Find Journal Articles
In one of these library databases
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This citation index helps you search over 10,000 journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You’ll find both current and past coverage. WoS also lets you explore the relationships between articles on a topic. -
OpenSky This link opens in a new windowThis database offers free access to many works written or published by NCAR scientists and UCAR staff as well as citations for works still under publisher embargo. Covering atmospheric and geosciences as well as related fields, the database contains mostly peer reviewed articles, but also grey literature (abstracts, proceedings, and presentations.)
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AMS Journals Online This link opens in a new windowSearch the contents of the American Meteorological Society publications, in some cases dating back to the 1800s. Full text of Bulletin of AMS and the journal Earth Interactions is available up through the current issue. For all other publications full text is available for articles published 1 year ago or earlier.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Searches scholarly literature indexed by Google. Some articles are available in full text; for others you can use our Interlibrary Loan system (see information on left.) -
arXiv This link opens in a new windowarXiv is recommended for topics in atmospheric physics and modeling. arXiv provides early access to preprints of scholarly articles (which often later appear in conventional journals).
Locate Weather Data
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NCDC PublicationsFree access to climate data published online from the National Climatic Data Center.
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NCDC Quick LinksThese links provide quick access to many of the National Climactic Data Center's climate and weather datasets, products, and various web pages and resources.
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Monthly Weather ReviewContains a combination of articles and climate data. From 1872 to 1980 varying levels of detail are available, sometimes in an article titled "Weather and Circulation." Issues after 1980 do not include this type of data.
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New England Climatological Data MicroficheREF QC983 .A54
Very detailed weather information for the 6 New England states from 1896 to 1992. Each monthly issue contains summary descriptions of each month's weather, daily precipitation amounts and high/low temperatures for each weather station, dates of thunderstorms, auroras, fog, etc. -
Plymouth State Climatological DataItems in this collection represent campus weather observations taken by Plymouth State University faculty and students between the 1970s and 2000s. The data includes measurements of temperature, pressure, precipitation, and other parameters from a variety of analog instrumentation.
Search Dissertations
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Dissertation Abstracts OnlineThis database contains citations and abstracts for over 2 million dissertations.
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Open Access Theses and DissertationsSearch theses and dissertations that are freely available online from over 800 colleges and universities.
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and DissertationsFull text collection of over 800,000 dissertations from many disciplines.
Interlibrary Loan
If you need a book or article that PSU does not have you can request the article through Interlibrary Loan.
This service is free to all PSU students, faculty, and staff.
- Go to the Interlibrary Loan Page.
- Click on the Create Request, choose the material type you want, then fill out the request form.
- Articles are delivered to your interlibrary loan account in PDF format, usually in 2-5 business days.
- Books are delivered to Lamson and can be picked up at the information desk in 1-2 weeks.
AMS Citation Style
The American Meteorological Society has its own citation style described in its Author's Guide website.
More information and examples at:
In AMS citations, journal titles should be abbreviated using the CASSI abbreviations.
Other Citation Styles
NoodleTools can help you create, manage, and save citations in a variety of citation styles.
Below are links to the style manuals for some other common citation styles.
The Purdue OWL has great information on APA, MLA, and Chicago.
Newspaper Articles
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Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Several hundred regional and national newspapers, from the early 2000s to the present.
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