Literature Guide: Climate and Climatology

WCIU Journal: Environmental Studies Topic

January 7, 2021

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

(An asterisk indicates an e-book held by Latourette Library. A call number following a bibliographical entry indicates shelf location in Latourette Library.)

Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.

Library of Congress Classification

QC 851 – QC 999   Climatology

Dewey Decimal Classification

551 Geology, hydrology, meteorology

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Architecture and climate                   

Arid regions climate              

Atmospheric condition

Atmospheric pressure                                    

Bioclimatology                      

Cave climate

Climate and civilization                    

Climatic changes                   

Climatic classification

Climatic extremes                              

Climatic normal                     

Climatologists

Climatology                                       

Crops and climate                  

Dendroclimatology

Desertification                                   

Dynamic climatology            

Forest microclimatology

Glacial climate                                   

Medical climatology              

Mesoclimatology

Microclimatology                              

Mountain climate                   

Precipitation anomalies

Season                                                

Soils and climate                   

Synoptic climatology

Temperate climate                             

Temperature inversions         

Topoclimatology

Urban climatology                             

Volcanism and climate          

Periodicals

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society     

Climate Dynamics

Climate Research                                                      

International Journal of Climatology

Journal of Climate                                                     

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences                        

Monthly Weather Review

Theoretical and Applied Climatology                       

Weather and Forecasting

Weather, Climate, and Society

Reference Books

Climate Emergency Atlas: What’s Happening—What We Can Do (2020)

Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, 3 vol. (2011)

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change (2nd ed,, 2015)

Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change (2020)

The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History (2018)

Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice (2020)

T. & T. Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change (2019)

The World Survey of Climatology, 14 vol. (1960s – 1990s) 

Books

Behringer, Wolfgang. 2009. A Cultural History of Climate. Malden, MA: Polity.

*Bigg, Grant R. 2003. The Oceans and Climate. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

Brooke, John L. 2014. Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Calthorpe, Peter. 2010. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change. Washington, D.C.: Island

Press.

Dove, Michael R., ed. 2014. The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Historical Reader.

Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.

Fagan, Brian F. 2004. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic

Books.

WCIU Winter Collection: WIN QC 981.2 .C5 F34 2004

*Gardiner, Stephen Mark. 2010. Climate Ethics: Essential Readings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Irwin, Ruth. 2010. Climate Change and Philosophy: Transformational Possibilities.

London: Continuum.

Kanbur, Ravi, and Henry Shue, eds. 2018. Climate Justice: Integrating Ethics and Philosophy.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lieberman, Benjamin, and Elizabeth Gordon. 2018. Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Lin, Jolene, and Douglas A. Kysar, eds. 2020. Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  

Maslin, Mark. 2013. Climate: A Very Short Introduction. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press.

*Mastrandea, Michael D., and Stephen Henry Schneider. 2010. Preparing for Climate Change.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

McFague, Sallie. 2008. A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming.

Fortress Press.

*Moller, Detlev. 2010. Chemistry of the Climate System. Berlin: De Gruyter.

*Schott, Christian. 2010. Tourism and the Implications of Climate Change: Issues and Actions.

Bingley, U.K.: Emerald.

Singer, Merrill, and Hans A. Baer. 2018. The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Integrated

Critical Perspective. New York: Routledge.

*Storch, Hans von, and Francis W. Swiers. 1999. Statistical Analysis in Climate Research.

Cambridge University Press.

Toulmin, Camilla. 2019. Climate Change in Africa. Zed Books. 

Williston, Byron. 2020. Philosophy and the Climate Crisis. New York: Routledge.

Winsberg, Eric. 2018. Philosophy and Climate Science. Cambridge University Press.