Useful Links and Resources

Last updated on 01/19/10 07:16 PM  by Rong Fu

• The World Climate Research Programme
• Weather and climate books, online magazines
• Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions. This study originated from a White House request to help inform the Administration's ongoing review of U.S. climate change policy.
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This site gives an up-to-date information on the Kyoto Protocol.
• US Global Change Research Program.
• US Global Change Research Information Office Global Change Resources.
• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Global Warming Site. This site presents information on the very broad issue of climate change and global warming in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, public officials and governments.
• Common Questions about Climate Change.
• Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory.
• Global Climate Trends. This site provides many nice figures illustrating global climate trends.
• Earth Science Pictures. This site shows lots of really cool satellite-derived pictures of clouds, hurricane, typhoon, snow, haze, ice sheet, vegetation, fire, and ozone levels.
• The Ozone Hole
• Hurricane forecast

• Climate Data Labs. Monthly mean plots of temperature and precipitation for a city.
• The Layer Model Approximation to the Greenhouse Effect.  This lab exercises your understanding of "layer models" of the greenhouse effect. These are also called "isothermal slab models," or "glass atmosphere models." They have serious shortcomings in their neglect of the way thermodynamics and convection alters the vertical temperature structure of real atmospheres, but they are still useful in understanding the basic way the greenhouse effect operates.
• Poster Presentation! This site provides a guidance to design one's poster.
• VERY COOL LAB ASSIGNMENTS!

• Windows to the Universe! It is a fun and different Web site about the Earth and Space sciences. Windows to the Universe is graphics intensive!
• Greenpeace Organizing Term online at www.greenpeaceusa.org/got
• 2002 Climate and Global Change Geosciences Education Workshop (Presentation Archive)
• Cycles of the Earth and Atmosphere -- Module Overview. Five Stars! I strongly recommend every student to check it out! This on-line teaching module is for middle school science teachers. While some students may find portions of this site useful, the primary audience is classroom teachers and it has been developed with that target audience in mind. The site provides background information and supporting classroom teaching materials. The content focus is climate change and issues related to both stratospheric and tropospheric ozone.

  There are seven sections, each with activities for classroom use. Each section provides background information, general learning concepts, and a list of activities.

  Introduction to the Atmosphere	Introduction to Ozone
  Introduction to Climate	Stratospheric Ozone
  The "Greenhouse Effect"	Tropospheric Ozone
  Global Climate Change

• Global Climate Change
• Climate Change and Variability
• Climate Change and Variability (Monash Univ)
• Planetary Climate Change
• Climate and Climate Change (Univ of Washington, Dept of Atmos. Sci.)
• Global Change: Physical Processes (Univ of Michigan)

• Columbia Univ (LDEO) Exam Questions
• Questions and Answers about Climate Change
• Climate Change: the Past
• Midterm Sample Questions
• Final Sample Questions
• The Oceans and Climate Change
• POSSIBLE EXAM QUESTIONS
• Oceans
• Earth, Wind and Fire
• Global Change 1 (UMich)
• Global Change 2 (UMich)
• Additional Exam Questions
• Planet Earth
• CLIMATE CHANGE (with MANY cool links to help answer the questions: NOAA Paleo...)
• Sample Exam Questions
• Oceanography
• Connell Univ Final Exam Questions
• Essay Exam Questions (Ecology)