Ahrens, C. Donald. Meteorology Today. An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment, 5th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1994.

Battan, Louis J. Fundamentals of Meteorology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1979.

Lutgens, Frederick and Edward Tarbuck. The Atmosphere. An Introduction to Meteorology. Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice Hall Inc., 2001.

Pidwirny, Michael J. "The Layered Atmosphere." July 1999. Fundamentals of Physical Geography. 6 Dec. 2002. <www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/7b.html>.

Wallace, John and Peter Hobbs. Atmospheric Science. An Introductory Survey. San Diego: Academic Press, 1977.

Zabransky, Joseph. Atmospheric Physics Lectures. Plymouth State College, Sept. 2002.
 

Ackerman, Steven A. and John A. Knox.  Meteorology Understanding the Atmosphere, Canada, Brooks/Cole, 2003.

Ahrens, Donald C. Essentials of Meteorology, Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2001.

Jursa, Adolph S. Handbook of Geophysics and the Space Environment, Air Force USA 1985.

Allen, Bruce and Clyde F. Herreid. "The Petition:  A Global Warming Case Study." Sept 2002. Case Teaching Notes 4 June 2003. <http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/petition_notes.html>.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 29 May 2003.  <http://www.ipcc.ch/>. 

Keeling, C.D. and T.P. Whorf. "Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center" Aug. 2001. Scripps Institution of Technology.  2 June 2003.  

Oliver, John E. and John J. Hidore.  Climatology an Atmospheric Science, Upper Saddle, NJ:  Prentice Hall Inc., 2002.  

Historical Isotopic Temperature Record from the Vostok Ice Core: Graphics & Digital Data
Period of Record: 420,000 years BP-present
J.R. Petit, D. Raynaud, and C. Lorius: Laboratoire de Glaciogie et GM-iophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS, Saint Martin d'HM-hres Cedex, France
J. Jouzel and G. Delaygue: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA/CNRS, L'Orme des Merisiers, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
N.I. Barkov: Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Beringa Street 38, 199397 St. Petersburg, Russia
V.M. Kotlyakov: Institute of Geography, Staromonetny, per 29, Moscow 109017, Russia