Overview of meteorology and weather
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Environment Complete from EBSCOhostEnvironment Complete indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from journals, conference proceedings, and books covering the agricultural, biological, social science, and technological aspects of the environment. The database includes more than 1.9 million records from over 1,700 domestic and international titles. Full text is available for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs, with content provided in HTML and PDF formats. Users can limit searches to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage: 1888–present.
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Inspec from Engineering VillageInspec indexes literature for physics, computer science, electronics, and information technology. It includes scholarly articles, books, conference articles and proceedings, reports, standards, and some patents.
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Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts from ProQuestMeteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts indexes citations and abstracts, and full text of journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and government reports on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography, and environmental sciences. 1974-present.
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