EG6517 – Web/Literature Search

Introduction

The Internet provides a useful portal to both peer review journal articles (via the Web of Science and Science Direct) as well as authoritative materials from reputable University and Government sites. During your final year, you will be expected to make use mainly of journals – and also be aware of what is new and “cutting edge” in your areas of science. This practical will provide you with a means of generating a useful resource of journal articles and internet sites to aid you with further work and revision for the exams.

One useful strategy is to review the bibliographies attached to journal articles and follow up selected references from these. Most meteorological journals are available from either Manchester Metropolitan (Online and print), University of Manchester – John Rylands and the University of Liverpool – Sydney Jones Library.

MMU
Library / UoM
J. Rylands / UoL
Sydney Jones
Meteorological magazine / 1975 - 1990 / Meteorological magazine / 1947 - 1993 / Meteorological magazine / 1957 - 1993
Climate monitor / 1979 - 1997 / Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society / 1880 - 1995 / Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society / 1884 - 2000
Climate policy
[ONLINE] / 2001 - current / International Journal of Climatology / 1989 - 1993 / Theoretical and Applied Climatology / 1986 - present
Climatic change / 1994 - current / Monthly Weather Review / 1971 - 1987 / International Journal of Climatology / 1989 - present
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society / 1975 - 1982 / Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology / 1983 - 1987 / Monthly Weather Review / 1974 - present
International Journal of Climatology
[ONLINE] / 1983 – 1991 (Print)
1996 - present / Journal of Climatology / 1981 - 1988 / Journal of Climate / 1988 - 1990
Monthly Weather Review / 1976 - 1982 / Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society / 1971 - 1994 / Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology / 1962 - 1987
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society / 1958 - 1990

Other journals you should be interested in are listed in the unit reader document

TASKS

[1] Today, you are required to locate as many articles and journal references as you can dealing with the following subjects:

  • Natural climate forcing
  • Anthropogenic climate forcing
  • Dynamical climate modelling
  • Statistical climate modelling
  • Model assimilation
  • Model parameterisation
  • Ocean modelling
  • Impacts of climate change

Keep a notebook specifically for your references and record them in the following way:

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JOURNAL ARTICLE:

Cresswell MP, Thomson MC, Morse AP, Connor SJ and Graham RJ. (1999) New advances in climate forecasting tools and satellite imagery for disease modelling. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 93, (2), 118

Date found:10/10/02

Source: Web of Science

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDING:

Cresswell MP, Morse AP, Thomson MC and Graham RJ (1999). Evaluation of HadAM3 model simulations to predict the onset of the West African Monsoon. Twenty-Fourth Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, NOAA.

Date found:10/10/02

Source: Cited in Journal article

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INTERNET ARTICLE:

Summary:Details of computer system used for climate modelling at ECMWF

Date found:10/10/02

Source: Google search

You can access the necessary online journal resources by going to the MMU Library website:

Then select ‘Electronic Library’ on the left hand side of the page, then select ‘Databases By Title’ on the left hand side of the page. Choose ‘S’ and then ‘Science Direct’ – then click on the ‘Access The Service’ link.