Special Listings:

• Assessments. Major national & international studies

• US Government Agencies Participating in the USGCRP

• Links, By USGCRP Focus Area

• USGCRP-Related International Programs

• Up-to-Date Weather, Climate & Wildfire Summaries

• Educational Resources. Links especially useful to students and teachers.  Includes links to lesson plans.

• Image Collections.  Need an image related to global change? This is the best place to begin your search.

• Periodicals

• Hurricanes.  Links to background information on the connection between climate change and hurricanes.  Other useful links related to hurricanes also provided.

Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology. 

SciTechResources.gov.  This web site is being developed in conjunction with the new science.gov web site and is partially funded by FirstGov, a government partnership working to accelerate the growth of a secure seamless, electronic government

• Atmosphere, Climate, and Weather Web Sites

• Earth Science

• Ocean Science and Technology

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.   The IPCC was founded jointly by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization to assess the science of climate change, its impacts and to develop response strategies. This site provides access to the IPCC Second Assessment Report Synthesis Report and Summaries for Policymakers.  In addition to  a Task Force on Greenhouse Gas Inventories that oversees the IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme (IPCC-NGGIP)., the IPCC has three working groups

• Working Group I: The science of climate Change.
• Working Group II: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
• Working Group III: Mitigation of climate change.