Climatology


simple climate demonstration, from "The Weather Unit" at the website "Education World"
.............................................(learning about regional climates and how to understand maps)

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Global change, discussed in an electronic journal (called Earth Interactions), which serves the Earth
.......................System Science Community. Is produced through collaboration between
.......................the American Meteorological Society (AMS), American Geophysical Union,
.......................Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America and
.......................the Oceanography Society.

.......................It focuses on interdisciplinary studies that deal with the lithosphere,
.......................hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere in the context of global issues
.......................and global change. This journal is peer reviewed at a high scholarly
.......................level so that it can stand on par with the best of the societies'
.......................print journals. User subscription can be obtained.

.......................Subscription is required to view entire articles, although abstracts and article titles
.......................(from the past several years) are available for free viewing from The
.......................AMS.

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Teaching Climatology I, A teacher's resource publication
...........................called "Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect",
...........................written by Hocking, Sneider, Erickson and Golden. Appropriate for
...........................grades 7-10. Covers issues related to the atmosphere, visible and
...........................infrared photons, interaction of light, heat and matter, greenhouse
...........................effect and the effects of climate change.

...........................Can be ordered from the Museum Store.

...........................This site is hosted by GEMS, a program of the Lawrence Hall of Science,
...........................the public science education center at the University of California
...........................at Berkeley.

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