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Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
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Key Facts
Format: Abstract and index
Media: Electronic/Online
Coverage: 1974-Current
Total Sources Covered: Over 524,245 records

Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Summaries from over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs, are included. Each record includes complete citation information, Universal Decimal Classification subject classifications, and subject descriptors drawn from the MGA Controlled Vocabulary. Online versions of the Controlled Vocabulary and the UDC subject classifications are available to facilitate online searching. MGA is produced by the American Meteorological Society and is published by CSA.

Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:

  • Air pollution
  • Astrophysics
  • Atmospheric disturbances
  • Atmospheric structure
  • Climatology
  • Geomagnetism
  • Glaciology
  • Groundwater/surface water hydrology
  • Hydrologic cycle
  • Meteorological observations
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Radiation and temperature
  • Weather forecasting

Update Frequency
Monthly, 850 new records added.

 

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Size
Over 403,220 tables and figures