• books and reference materials on meteorology, atmospheric physics, and the like
  
• over 35,000 volumes of books collected in the hall, and some meteorological periodicals have collections spanning more than 70 years
  
• precious early meteorological observation materials and GMS satellite cloud chart films (15 years) held in the library
  
• more than 400 doctoral and master’s theses and other technical data and information reports

Homepage of Library of IAP

With the development of the institute’s intranet, the modern library management software has been adopted to offer the circulation inquiries, the online reservation and the renewal.

The E-library Search Page

In recent years, the e-books and e-journals are developing rapidly. The library of IAP has ordered many online publications. These e-materials include the Chinese journals and books, all American Meteorological Society (AMS) full text online journals, American Geophysical Union (AGU) full text journals of atmosphere and ocean, Elsever, Springer, John Wiley and Blackwell online full text database, etc.

The researchers in IAP can search, read and print these e-materials of the atmospheric and related sciences by inter/intra-net. They can also access the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences and other professional libraries by network. IAP library is the powerful professional library in atmospheric science in China.