Resources

Books

• Allmon, W. D., T. A. Smrecak, & R. M. Ross, 2010, Climate Change—Past Present & Future: A Very Short Guide, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY, 200 pp.
• Committee on the Importance of Deep-Time Geologic Records for Understanding Climate Change Impacts, 2011, Understanding Earth’s deep past lessons for our climate future, National Academies Press, Washington, DC.
• Karl, T. R., J. M. Melillo, & T. C. Peterson (eds.), 2009, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, NY, 188 pp.
• Melillo, J. M., T. C. Richmond, & G. W. Yohe (eds.), 2014, Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, US Global Change Research Program, 841 pp.
• Ruddiman, W. F., 2014, Earth’s Climate: Past and Future, 3rd edition, W. H. Freeman, New York, 445 pp.

Websites: General Resources on Climate

• Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN). (A rich collection of resources for educators,)
• Envisioning Climate Change Using a Global Climate Model, by B. Youngman, M. Chandler, L. Sohl, M. Hafen, T. Ledley, S. Ackerman, & S. Kluge, SERC Earth Exploration Toolkit.
• Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet, NASA. (Climate data particularly from satellite-based remote sensing.)
• Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network, Global Monitoring Division, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory. (Data and visualizations.)
• Global Warming and Hurricanes, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, 2013.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).
• JetStream, Online School for Weather, National Weather Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
• National Climate Assessment. (Reports summarizing impacts of climate change.)
• National Hurricane Data Center, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. (News on current hurricane forecasts.)
• National Weather Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
• NOAA’s El Nino Portal, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
• North America During the Last 150,000 Years, compiled by J. Adams.
• Regional Climate Trends and Scenarios for the U.S. National Climate Assessment, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
• U.S. Map of Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification.
• Weather Base. (Weather and climate data by country, state, and city.)
• Weatherunderground maps. (A variety of types of weather maps, including surface, temperature, moisture, wind, cloud cover, precipitation.)

Websites on State- or Region-specific Climate Resources

• The Age of Western Wildfires, Climate Central Sept. 18, 2012.
• Alaska PaleoAtlas Glacier: A Geospatial Compilation of Pleistocene Glacier Extents, by W. Manley & D. Kaufman, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Burt, C. C., 2012, New wettest location for the U.S.A. discovered? Wunderground May 15, 2012.
• Climate and Topography [of California] by E. Kauffman, Atlas of the Biodiversity of California.
• Climate change impacts, the Northwest (WA, OR, ID).
• Climate impacts in Alaska, Climate Change Impacts and Adapting to Change, Environmental Protection Agency.
• Climate impacts in the Northwest [includes Oregon, Washington], Climate Change Impacts and Adapting to Change, Environmental Protection Agency.
• Climate impacts in the Southwest [includes California], Climate Change Impacts and Adapting to Change, Environmental Protection Agency.
• Climate impacts in the U.S. Tropical Islands, Climate Change Impacts and Adapting to Change, Environmental Protection Agency.
• Giambelluca, T. W., Q. Chen, A. G. Frazier, J. P. Price, Y.-L. Chen, P.-S. Chu, J. K. Eischeid, & D. M. Delparte, 2013, Online rainfall atlas of Hawai’i, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94: 313 - 316, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00228.1.
• Western Regional Climate Center. (A wide variety of weather and climate data and state-by-state climate narratives.)