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Online Books and Reports

The availability of full-text documentation via the Internet is growing rapidly and is proving to be an enormous tool to help bridge the information gaps among researchers, policymakers, educators, managers, and others concerned with global climate change. This is bringing more efficient and equitable access to critical information. We list here some major collections, followed by a small sample of available publications related to climate change.

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The U.S. Global Change Data and Information System maintains an inventory of online books, reports and bibliographic databases (http://www.gcdis.usgcrp.gov/documents.html). This current awareness publication includes links to other electronic documents maintained elsewhere.

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The National Academy Press, the publication unit of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, maintains a "reading room" of full-text Academy reports, several of which are listed below (http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/). Titles are listed by subject categories.

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The On-Line Books Page of Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html) provides full-text copies of books, arranged by Library of Congress Call Numbers and Subject.

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The U.S. Naval Academy maintains a diverse inventory of Internet Resources that includes online books and reports and links to other collections (http://web.nadn.navy.mil/books.html).

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The Internet Public Library, a project of the University of Michigan's School of Information, maintains an inventory of electronic, full-text books arranged by the Dewey Decimal System (http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/).

National Academy Press

Find titles using the search function at http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/:

• Climate Change and Human Health (1996)
• Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion, Executive Summary (1996)
• A Plan for a Research Program on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change (1996)
• Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales (1995)
• Effects of Past Global Change on Life (1994)
• The Ocean's Role in Global Change: Progress of Major Research Programs (1994)
• Environmental Science in the Coastal Zone: Issues for Further Research (1994)
• Solar influences on Global Change (1994)
• Managing Water Resources in the West Under Conditions of Climate Uncertainty (1991)
• Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming (1991)
• Studies in Geophysics; Sea-Level Change (1990)
• One Earth, One Future: our Changing Global Environment (1990)
• Ozone Depletion, Greenhouse Gases, and Climate Change (1989)
• Global Tropospheric Chemistry: A Plan for Action (1984)
• Causes and Effects of Stratospheric Ozone Reduction: An Update (1982)

IPCC Reports

http://www.usgcrp.gov/ipcc/html/preports.html

• IPCC Third Assessment Report
• IPCC Second Assessment Report
• The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability.
• Aviation and the Global Atmosphere
• Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer
• Emissions Scenarios
• IPCC Technical Papers
• IPCC Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change

GCRIO

Some of publications maintained by the Global Change Research and Information Office (http://www.gcrio.org/):

• Common Questions About Climate Change (1997)
• Our Changing Planet: The FY 1998 U.S. Global Change Research Program (1997)
• Geoindicators: Tools for Assessing Rapid Environmental Changes (1996)
• Global Warming and Climate Change (1996)
• Interim Report on Climate Change Country Studies (1996)
• The Probability of Sea Level Rise (1996)
• A Review of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and NASA's Mission to Planet Earth/Earth Observing System (1996)
• Sustainable Development and Global Climate Change: Conflicts and Connections (Proceedings, 1996)
• Forum on Global Change Modeling (1995)
• The U.S. Climate Change Action Plan (1994)
• The U.S. Global Change Data and Information System Implementation Plan (1994)
• Policy Statements on Data Management for Global Change Research (1991)

Miscellaneous

Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions: Potential Impacts of Energy Technologies by 2010 and Beyond, 1997, issued by five federal laboratories (http://www.ornl.gov/ORNL/Energy_Eff/CON444/labweb.htm).

Numeric Data Packages: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Specialty Data Products (more than 50 individual reports arranged by subject; http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/by_new/bysubjec.html).

Reporting on Climate Change: Understanding the Science, 1994, Natl. Safety Council (http://www.nsc.org/ehc/guidebks/climtoc.htm).