Provides a comprehensive review of government programs that generate environmental and environmentally-related statistics. Describes how the data are collected, what their temporal and geographic coverage is, what experts to contact for more information, and how to acquire the data and the reports that interpret them. Covers 7 governmet agencies: Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, HHS, Interior, Transportation and EPA. Comprehensive!

The value of applied climatology - the study of the impact of climate - lies in the analysis of measurements and estimates within the context of change. This study provides a review of the theory and practice underlying current climatic research.

Wilks provides a historical background, list of publications, and description of activities for most of the major science initiatives undertaken at the federal level. He surveys a wide range of government documents and monographic and serial science collections used by both faculty and students.