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October 19–25, 2003

Earth’s Atmosphere and Beyond!

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Dewey Decimal Call Numbers for NCW 2003

Browse by Dewey Category (see middle of page) from the Internet Public Library

• 300 Social Sciences
  • 380 Commerce, Communication, Transportation
    • 387 Water, Air, Space Transportation
      • 387.7 Air Transportation
• 500 Natural Sciences & Mathematics
  • 520 Astronomy and the Allied Sciences
    • 523 Specific Celestial Bodies and Phenomena
      • 523.4 Planets
        • 523.43 Mars
  • 550 Earth Sciences
    • 551 Geology, Hydrology, Meteorology
      • 551.5 Meteorology
        • 551.51 Composition, Regions, Mechanics of Atmosphere
          • 551.511 Composition of Atmosphere
          • 551.514 Upper Atmosphere
      • 551.6 Climatology and Weather
• 600 Technology (Applied Sciences)
  • 620 Engineering and Allied Operations
    • 629 Other Branches of Engineering
      • 629.1 Aerospace Engineering
        • 629.13 Aeronautics
          • 629.132 Principles of Aerial Flight
• 900 Geography and History
  • 920 Biography, Genealogy, Insignia
    • 925 Scientists
      • 925.4 Chemists
    • 926 Persons in Technology
      • 926.2 Persons in Engineering and Allied Operations
        • 926.29 Persons in Other Branches of Engineering
          • 926.291 Persons in Aerospace Engineering

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LC Call Numbers for NCW 2003

Call Numbers	Subject Area
HE 9761–9900	Air Transportation
QC 641	Mars
QC 851–999	Meteorology, Climatology (including the Earth’s atmosphere)
TL 500–777	Aeronautics, Aeronautical Engineering

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Searching by Subject in Your Library Catalog

Below are some subject terms that you can use to search the catalog of your local library for more information. Developed by the Library of Congress, these subject headings are some of the standard terms used to describe materials when they are cataloged by a library.

• Air
• Atmosphere
• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Atmospheric Circulation
• Atmospheric Deposition
• Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxides
• Atmospheric Ozone
• Atmospheric Temperature
• Carbon Dioxide
• Chemosphere
• Climatic Changes
• Climatology
• Greenhouse Effect Atmospheric
• Global Warming
• Hurricanes
• Mars Planet
• Meteorology
• Nitrogen Oxides
• Ozone
• Photochemistry
• Planetary Atmospheres
• Planets Atmospheres
• Seasons
• Storms
• Tornadoes
• Weather

For the subject AIR

1. search also under the broader term: ATMOSPHERE
2. search also under the narrower term: AERODYNAMICS
3. search also under the narrower term: BUBBLES
4. search also under the narrower term: IONIZED AIR
5. search also under the narrower term: LIQUID AIR
6. search under: AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH
7. search under: ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH

search also under: headings beginning with the word Atmospheric

For the subject ATMOSPHERE

1. search also under the broader term: EARTH
2. search also under the narrower term: AIR
3. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERE UPPER
4. search also under the narrower term: BIOSPHERE
5. search also under the narrower term: BOUNDARY LAYER METEOROLOGY
6. search also under the narrower term: MESOSPHERE
7. search also under the narrower term: MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE
8. search also under the narrower term: PLANT-ATMOSPHERE RELATIONSHIPS
9. search also under the narrower term: SKY
10. search also under the narrower term: STANDARD ATMOSPHERE
11. search also under the narrower term: TROPOSPHERE
12. search also under: METEOROLOGY

For the subject ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY

1. search also under the broader term: CHEMISTRY PHYSICAL AND THEORETICAL
2. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE
3. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY
4. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC METHANE
5. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
6. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC OZONE
7. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC RADON
8. search also under the narrower term: CHEMOSPHERE
9. search also under the narrower term: PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING
10. search also under the narrower term: SINKS ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY

For the subject ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION

1. search also under the broader term: CLIMATOLOGY
2. search also under the broader term: METEOROLOGY
3. search also under the broader term: WINDS
4. search also under the narrower term: AIR MASSES
5. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE
6. search also under the narrower term: CONVECTION METEOROLOGY
7. search also under the narrower term: JET STREAM
8. search also under the narrower term: TRADE WINDS
9. search also under the narrower term: TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
10. search also under: GROSSWETTERLAGEN
11. search also under: STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATION

For the subject ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION

1. search also under the broader term: SEDIMENTATION AND DEPOSITION
2. search also under: AIR POLLUTION

For the subject ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN OXIDES

1. search also under the broader term: ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
2. search also under the broader term: NITROGEN OXIDES
3. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DIOXIDE
4. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC NITROUS OXIDE

For the subject ATMOSPHERIC OZONE

1. search also under the broader term: ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
2. search also under the broader term: OZONE
3. search also under the narrower term: OZONE LAYER
4. search also under the narrower term: PAINTING EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC OZONE ON

For the subject ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE

1. search also under the broader term: METEOROLOGY
2. search also under the broader term: TEMPERATURE
3. search also under the narrower term: COLD WAVES METEOROLOGY
4. search also under the narrower term: DEGREE DAYS
5. search also under the narrower term: GREENHOUSE EFFECT ATMOSPHERIC
6. search also under the narrower term: TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS
7. search also under the narrower term: TEMPERATURE LAPSE RATE
8. search also under the narrower term: TEMPERATURE NORMALS
9. search also under the narrower term: UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE
10. search also under: GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGES

For the subject CARBON DIOXIDE

1. search also under the broader term: CARBON COMPOUNDS
2. search also under the broader term: OXIDES
3. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE
4. search also under the narrower term: CARBONIC ACID
5. search also under the narrower term: GREENHOUSE EFFECT ATMOSPHERIC
6. search also under the narrower term: LIQUID CARBON DIOXIDE
7. search also under the narrower term: SEAWATER CARBON DIOXIDE CONTENT

For the subject CHEMOSPHERE

1. search also under the broader term: ATMOSPHERE UPPER
2. search also under the broader term: ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
3. search also under the broader term: MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE
4. search also under the broader term: PHOTOCHEMISTRY
5. search also under the narrower term: MESOSPHERE
6. search also under the narrower term: STRATOSPHERE

For the subject CLIMATIC CHANGES

1. search also under the broader term: CLIMATOLOGY
2. search also under the narrower term: GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGES
3. search also under the narrower term: PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
4. search also under the narrower term: PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY
5. search also under the narrower term: RAINFALL ANOMALIES

search also under: subdivision Climatic factors under individual animals and groups of animals and individual plants and groups of plants, e.g. Fishes--Climatic factors; Corn--Climatic factors

For the subject CLIMATOLOGY

1. search also under the broader term: METEOROLOGY
2. search also under the narrower term: AIR CONDITIONING CLIMATIC FACTORS
3. search also under the narrower term: AIRPLANES CLIMATIC FACTORS
4. search also under the narrower term: ARCHITECTURE AND CLIMATE
5. search also under the narrower term: ARID REGIONS CLIMATE
6. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
7. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
8. search also under the narrower term: BIOCLIMATOLOGY
9. search also under the narrower term: BIOMASS ENERGY CLIMATIC FACTORS
10. search also under the narrower term: CITY PLANNING CLIMATIC FACTORS
11. search also under the narrower term: CLIMATIC CHANGES
12. search also under the narrower term: CLIMATIC CLASSIFICATION
13. search also under the narrower term: CLIMATIC EXTREMES
14. search also under the narrower term: CLIMATIC NORMALS
15. search also under the narrower term: CONTINENTALITY METEOROLOGY
16. search also under the narrower term: COOLING TOWERS CLIMATIC FACTORS
17. search also under the narrower term: CROPS AND CLIMATE
18. search also under the narrower term: DENDROCHRONOLOGY
19. search also under the narrower term: DENDROCLIMATOLOGY
20. search also under the narrower term: DESERTIFICATION
21. search also under the narrower term: DYNAMIC CLIMATOLOGY
22. search also under the narrower term: ENERGY CONSUMPTION CLIMATIC FACTORS
23. search also under the narrower term: EVAPORATION METEOROLOGY
24. search also under the narrower term: FISHERIES CLIMATIC FACTORS
25. search also under the narrower term: HEATING CLIMATIC FACTORS
26. search also under the narrower term: HOUSE CONSTRUCTION CLIMATIC FACTORS
27. search also under the narrower term: HUMAN BEINGS EFFECT OF CLIMATE ON
28. search also under the narrower term: MESOCLIMATOLOGY
29. search also under the narrower term: MICROCLIMATOLOGY
30. search also under the narrower term: MOUNTAIN CLIMATE
31. search also under the narrower term: PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
32. search also under the narrower term: ROADS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION CLIMATIC FACTORS
33. search also under the narrower term: SEASONS
34. search also under the narrower term: SOILS AND CLIMATE
35. search also under the narrower term: SOLAR ENERGY CLIMATIC FACTORS
36. search also under the narrower term: SOLAR HOUSES CLIMATIC FACTORS
37. search also under the narrower term: SOLAR POWER PLANTS CLIMATIC FACTORS
38. search also under the narrower term: SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY
39. search also under the narrower term: TEMPERATE CLIMATE
40. search also under the narrower term: TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS
41. search also under the narrower term: TRANSPORTATION CLIMATIC FACTORS
42. search also under the narrower term: URBAN CLIMATOLOGY
43. search also under the narrower term: WATER TABLE CLIMATIC FACTORS
44. search also under the narrower term: WIND POWER CLIMATIC FACTORS

search also under: subdivision Climate under names of countries, cities, etc.; and subdivision Climatic factors under individual animals and groups of animals, individual plants and groups of plants, and individual land vehicles, for works on the relation of those topics to climate, e.g. Fishes--Climatic factors; Corn--Climatic factors; Automobiles--Climatic factors

For the subject GREENHOUSE EFFECT ATMOSPHERIC

1. search also under the broader term: ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
2. search also under the broader term: CARBON DIOXIDE
3. search also under the broader term: HEAT BUDGET GEOPHYSICS
4. search also under the broader term: INFRARED ALBEDO
5. search also under the broader term: SOLAR RADIATION
6. search also under: GLOBAL WARMING

For the subject GLOBAL WARMING

1. search also under the broader term: GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGES
2. search also under the narrower term: PLANTS EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON
3. search also under: GREENHOUSE EFFECT ATMOSPHERIC

For the subject HURRICANES

1. search also under the broader term: CYCLONES
2. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE ANDREW 1992
3. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE FLORA 1963
4. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE FLOYD 1999
5. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE FRAN 1996
6. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE FREDERIC 1979
7. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE GEORGES 1998
8. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE GILBERT 1988
9. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE HATTIE 1961
10. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE HUGO 1989
11. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE INIKI 1992
12. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE JANET 1955
13. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE JOAN 1988
14. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE MARILYN 1995
15. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE MITCH 1998
16. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE MODIFICATION
17. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE OPAL 1995
18. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE PAULINE 1997
19. search also under the narrower term: HURRICANE PROTECTION

For the subject MARS PLANET

1. search also under the broader term: INNER PLANETS
2. search also under the narrower term: MARS PROBES
3. search also under the narrower term: SPACE FLIGHT TO MARS

For the subject METEOROLOGY

1. search also under the broader term: EARTH SCIENCES
2. search also under the narrower term: AERONAUTICS IN METEOROLOGY
3. search also under the narrower term: AIR POLLUTION METEOROLOGICAL ASPECTS
4. search also under the narrower term: ART AND METEOROLOGY
5. search also under the narrower term: ASTRONAUTICS IN METEOROLOGY
6. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
7. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEATION
8. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
9. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
10. search also under the narrower term: BAROCLINICITY
11. search also under the narrower term: CLIMATOLOGY
12. search also under the narrower term: CLOUDS
13. search also under the narrower term: DEW
14. search also under the narrower term: DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY
15. search also under the narrower term: ENGINEERING METEOROLOGY
16. search also under the narrower term: EVAPORATION METEOROLOGY
17. search also under the narrower term: FOG
18. search also under the narrower term: FOREST METEOROLOGY
19. search also under the narrower term: FRONTS METEOROLOGY
20. search also under the narrower term: HUMIDITY
21. search also under the narrower term: HYDROMETEOROLOGY
22. search also under the narrower term: HYGROMETRY
23. search also under the narrower term: ICING METEOROLOGY
24. search also under the narrower term: LONG-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS
25. search also under the narrower term: MARINE METEOROLOGY
26. search also under the narrower term: MESOMETEOROLOGY
27. search also under the narrower term: METROMEX
28. search also under the narrower term: MICROMETEOROLOGY
29. search also under the narrower term: NUCLEAR ENERGY AND METEOROLOGY
30. search also under the narrower term: PLANETARY METEOROLOGY
31. search also under the narrower term: RADAR METEOROLOGY
32. search also under the narrower term: RADIO METEOROLOGY
33. search also under the narrower term: SATELLITE METEOROLOGY
34. search also under the narrower term: SEASONS
35. search also under the narrower term: SUNSHINE
36. search also under the narrower term: SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY
37. search also under the narrower term: TROPICAL METEOROLOGY
38. search also under the narrower term: WEATHER
39. search also under the narrower term: WEATHER CONTROL
40. search also under: ATMOSPHERE

For the subject NITROGEN OXIDES

1. search also under the broader term: OXIDES
2. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN OXIDES
3. search also under the narrower term: NITROGEN DIOXIDE
4. search also under the narrower term: NITROGEN TETROXIDE
5. search also under the narrower term: NITROUS OXIDE
6. search also under the narrower term: NITROXIDES

For the subject OZONE

1. search also under the broader term: CHEMICAL TESTS AND REAGENTS
2. search also under the broader term: OXYGEN
3. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC OZONE
4. search also under the narrower term: OZONOLYSIS

For the subject PHOTOCHEMISTRY

1. search also under the broader term: CHEMISTRY PHYSICAL AND THEORETICAL
2. search also under the narrower term: CHEMOSPHERE
3. search also under the narrower term: DIAZO MICROFILM EFFECT OF LIGHT ON
4. search also under the narrower term: LASER PHOTOCHEMISTRY
5. search also under the narrower term: MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES
6. search also under the narrower term: ORGANIC PHOTOCHEMISTRY
7. search also under the narrower term: PHOTOBIOLOGY
8. search also under the narrower term: PHOTOCHROMISM
9. search also under the narrower term: PHOTODISSOCIATION
10. search also under the narrower term: PHOTOELECTROCHEMISTRY
11. search also under the narrower term: PHOTOIONIZATION
12. search also under the narrower term: PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION

For the subject PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES

1. search under: PLANETS ATMOSPHERES

For the subject PLANETS ATMOSPHERES

search also under: subdivision Atmosphere under names of individual planets, e.g. Venus (Planet)--Atmosphere

For the subject SEASONS

1. search also under the broader term: ASTRONOMICAL GEOGRAPHY
2. search also under the broader term: ASTRONOMY
3. search also under the broader term: CLIMATOLOGY
4. search also under the broader term: METEOROLOGY
5. search also under the narrower term: AUTUMN
6. search also under the narrower term: SPRING
7. search also under the narrower term: SUMMER
8. search also under the narrower term: WINTER

For the subject STORMS

1. search also under the broader term: NATURAL DISASTERS
2. search also under the broader term: WEATHER
3. search also under the narrower term: CYCLONES
4. search also under the narrower term: DEPTH-AREA-DURATION HYDROMETEOROLOGY
5. search also under the narrower term: DUST STORMS
6. search also under the narrower term: HAILSTORMS
7. search also under the narrower term: RAINSTORMS
8. search also under the narrower term: SANDSTORMS
9. search also under the narrower term: SESAME PROJECT
10. search also under the narrower term: SEVERE STORMS
11. search also under the narrower term: STORM WINDS
12. search also under the narrower term: THUNDERSTORMS
13. search also under the narrower term: TORNADOES
14. search also under the narrower term: TROPICAL STORM ALLISON 2001
15. search also under the narrower term: WINDSTORMS
16. search also under the narrower term: WINTER STORMS

search also under: subdivision Effect of storms on under individual animals and groups of animals, e.g. Fishes--Effect of storms on

more information: Here are entered works on storms in general. General works on cyclonic storms are entered under Cyclones. Works on the cyclonic storms of the West Indies are entered under Hurricanes; those of the China Seas and the Philippines, under Typhoons.

For the subject TORNADOES

1. search also under the broader term: STORMS
2. search also under the broader term: WHIRLWINDS

For the subject WEATHER

1. search also under the broader term: METEOROLOGY
2. search also under the narrower term: ARMADA 1588 WEATHER CONDITIONS
3. search also under the narrower term: ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
4. search also under the narrower term: COLD WAVES METEOROLOGY
5. search also under the narrower term: DROUGHTS
6. search also under the narrower term: FIRE WEATHER
7. search also under the narrower term: FRONTS METEOROLOGY
8. search also under the narrower term: GLOBAL WEATHER EXPERIMENT PROJECT
9. search also under the narrower term: HUMIDITY
10. search also under the narrower term: LONG-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS
11. search also under the narrower term: PRECIPITATION METEOROLOGY
12. search also under the narrower term: STORMS
13. search also under the narrower term: VISIBILITY
14. search also under the narrower term: WEATHER CONTROL
15. search also under the narrower term: WINDS

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