Atmosphere and Oceans
Factors that Control Regional Climate: Circulation in the Atmosphere
Further Exploration
What is the Coriolis Effect? (NASA SciJinks)
Biography


Matthew Fontaine Maury (U.S. Navy)
Classics
Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus American Journeys
A New Voyage Round the World, by William Dampier (Project Gutenberg of Australia)
Aristotle's treatise on "all the affections we may call common to air and water, and the kinds and parts of the earth and the affections of its parts."
News & Events
Expanding Tropics Pushing High Altitude Clouds Towards Poles, NASA Study Finds
Research
Google - Research database allows searching of the scholarly literature.
Experiment!
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States
National Academies Press: A Framework for K-12 Science Education