Resources

General Earth Science Links

• El Niño : IRI page, CDC page, historic ENSO events
• Global Warming, Abrupt Climate Change, Droughts
• Earth visuals : NASA Visible Earth, Earth Science World

Existential Questions :

• How to talk to a global warming skeptic ?
• Who benefits from climate disinformation ?
• How can I take action against global warming ?
• Is there an El Niño going on right now ?
• How do I pronounce your name ?

Technical Resources

Climate and Global Change :

• IPCC 4th Assessment Report
• State of the Planet : 2006, 2008 (with video lectures)
• After Kyoto : Copenhagen 2009

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

• A GFD Survival Kit : if you can't get this, you probably shouldn't be doing GFD.
• WHOI Summer school Proceedings
• Isaac Held's notes on the General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Numerical Analysis :

• Myths and Methods in Modeling
• Regularization of ill-posed problems
• Wavelets : ENS wavelet group, Torrence&Compo Matlab code
• Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra Lectures

Statistics

• Bayesian Thoughts
• A compelling case for the eradication of frequentists

Open Source Movement

• Creative Commons, Science Commons, GreenXchange
• The Economy of Ideas
• Open Source Science : Public Library of Science, EGU Journals
• MIT Open Courseware : learn about any subject, take it from the masters
• Open source software on a Mac
• Open Source Word Processing: scratch Word, use LaTeX.

LaTeX links : LaTeX on a Mac, LaTeX Symbols, a quick (?) introduction, LaTeX wikibook

LaTeX templates for a thesis, a poster, a book, an NSF proposal.