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Finding Information in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences: A Comprehensive Guide

This guide provides essential strategies for finding journal articles and accessing subject databases within the fields of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. It details how to define research problems, perform effective searches, and utilize various licensed databases available at UW-Madison Libraries. The document also discusses searching techniques such as using Boolean connectors, synonyms, and controlled vocabularies to improve search outcomes. Readers will learn the importance of government documents, reports, and various online resources for research in meteorology and oceanography.

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Finding Information in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences: A Comprehensive Guide

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  1. Finding Information in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences: Historical RootsSeptember 2005, AOSS 811 Jean Phillips Schwerdtfeger Library Space Science and Engineering Center Jean.Phillips@ssec.wisc.edu

  2. Overview • Finding journal articles • Searching • Subject databases • Define research problem • Sample search • Recap

  3. Finding Journal Articles • UW-Madison Libraries have licensed many databases for your use • Information cannot be accessed by using Google • After finding specific articles, search for the journal title in MadCat for location on campus • Some databases may have links to full-text via • Links to databases from our home page • By subject or name from E-Resource Gateway • Remote access: http://www.library.wisc.edu/help/remote/remote-restrict.html

  4. Searching • Plan your search • Remember variant word endings, Boolean connectors and synonyms • Limit search terms to specific fields (title, subject heading), within a certain proximity to each other, year ranges • To narrow a search: limit by theoretical approach, one aspect of subject, by time, by geographic location • To broaden a search: generalize your topic, check more databases, limit jargon, check Web or newspaper databases if topic is too new • Note controlled vocabularies • Perform search, review results, refine search, search again, refine search, search again, export results

  5. Subject Databases • Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) • Oceanic Abstracts • NTIS • Web of Science

  6. Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts • Updated quarterly, July 1974 – • MGA covers meteorology, climatology, oceanography, remote sensing, atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, etc. • Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, technical reports • Includes abstract for most entries • Includes links to full-text for AMS journals and other journals if the campus has a license • Pre-1974 literature can be found using print equivalent

  7. Oceanic Abstracts • Updated monthly, 1984 – • Premier database for marine resources • Covers biology, ecology, marine geology, geophysics, geochemistry, oceanography, marine pollution, environmental protection • Includes links to full-text where available • Same interface as MGA, NTIS and Oceanic Abstracts

  8. NTIS Bibliographic Index • Updated quarterly, 1964 – • Contains descriptions of U.S. government sponsored sci/tech research from DOD, DOE, EPA, NASA, NOAA… • Covers astronomy, atmospheric science, biotechnology, computers, energy, engineering, etc. • Included are: reports on contracts/grants, technical memoranda, technical reports, dissertations, etc. • Pre-1964, consult Government Reports and Announcements Index in print • Same interface as MGA

  9. Characteristics of Government Documents • What are they? Conference literature, government reports, internal reports, reports on contracts, etc. • Why are they important? Cited in literature and historically have provided a rapid means of scientific communication. • Who publishes them? Agencies, governmental bodies, professional societies, federal contractors, etc. • What characteristics do they have? Alpha-numeric report numbers, accession numbers, grant or contract numbers, sponsoring agency, no commercial publisher, distributed through facility like NTIS. • Where can I find them? 1)Libraries: Campus libraries have most reports distributed 2)NTIS, DTIS, NASA, STI 3)Author 4)Issuing agency

  10. Define Research Problem • What papers have been published that define the historical roots of the QG Omega Equation? • Synonyms: QG theory, Quasi-geostrophic theory, QG Omega equation, Quasi-geostrophic equation, Quasi-geostrophic Omega equation, mathematical equations, Omega equation

  11. Open MGA

  12. Select Databases: MGA, NTIS, Oceanic Abstracts

  13. TI=qg omega equation

  14. Review

  15. KW=qg omega equationKW=TI,AB,DE

  16. View Abstracts for Search TermsWatson, et al: Better understanding of QG theory…

  17. Descriptors (Subject Headings, Identifiers)

  18. KW=((qg theory) or (quasi*geostrophic theory) or (qg omega equation) or (quasi*geostrophic omega equation) or (quasi*geostrophic equation))

  19. Select and View Records

  20. Retrieve Full-text

  21. Report Numbers/Accession Numbers N19960051255

  22. Check MadCat for Availability

  23. Save, Print, Email, RefWorks

  24. RefWorks • Bibliographic management tool • RefWorks: http://www.refworks.com • Tutorial: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/library/teaching/refworks_spring2005.htm

  25. Search History

  26. Author Index

  27. Select Name and Variants

  28. Results for Sutcliffe

  29. Watson paper: Better understanding of QG theory… • Check references • Charney, J.G., 1948: On the scale of atmospheric motion. Geofys. Publ., 17, No.2. • No references to Sutcliffe

  30. MGA in Print QG Theory is one of the most important concepts put forth in late 1940s (Sutcliff[e] 1947; Charney 1948) for interpreting present state of atmosphere…

  31. MGA in Print: v.1, 1950

  32. Selected Bibliography: v.1, no.5, 1950, E69

  33. Other Sutcliffe Papers • Sutcliffe, R.C., 1947: The general circulation of the atmosphere. Quarterly Journal RMS, v.75, no.326, pp417-434.

  34. Other Charney Papers • Charney, Jule G., 1949: On a physical basis for numerical prediction of large-scale motions in the atmosphere. J. Meteorology, v.6, no.5, pp371-385. • Charney, J.G., et al., 1949: A numerical method for predicting the perturbations… Tellus, v.1, no.2, pp38-54.

  35. Web of Science • Updated weekly, 1970 – • Combination of three databases • Indexes peer-reviewed journal literature only – does not include reports, conference proceedings, dissertations… • Known for its currency and meticulous indexing • Used to do general, cited reference or author searching • Pre-1981, use Science Citation Index in print • Journal Citation Reports is companion database: http://portal17.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi/jcr?Init=Yes&SID=B5@2ppdAkLMm4j4b7O5

  36. Search Web of Science • Select “Science Citation Index” and coverage • General search • Use to link to full-text • Cited reference search • Formatting and exporting search results

  37. Search/Database Options, Limits

  38. Topic Search: qg theory OR quasi$geostrophic theory OR qg omega equation OR quasi$geostrophic omega equation OR quasi$geostrophic equation

  39. Review Results

  40. Review/Mark Records

  41. Check Cited References

  42. Review Citing Articles

  43. Related Records Contain Shared References

  44. Print/Save/E-mail Records

  45. Cited Reference Search

  46. Cited Reference Results

  47. Papers Citing Sutcliffe, 1947

  48. Finding Dissertations • MadCat for UW-Madison dissertations • Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) http://www.ndltd.org/browse.en.html • Current Research @ UW-Madison http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/wisc/main • Proquest Digital Dissertations, 1861 – http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/search • Index to Theses…Great Britain and Ireland http://www.theses.com/ • CRL Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23&l3=44&l4=25

  49. Citation Guides • American Meteorological Society http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/refstyl.html • American Institute of Physics http://www.aip.org/pubservs/style/4thed/toc.html • American Geophysical Union http://www.agu.org/pubs/inf4aus.html • Internet Citation Guides (UW-Madison) http://memorial.library.wisc.edu/citing.htm • Citing References in Your Paper (Writing Center, UW-Madison) http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Documentation.html

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