Freely Available Community Texts (FACTs)
Our goal is to coordinate the development, solicitation,
standardization, and dissemination of Freely Available Community Texts
(FACTs)
suitable for education and teaching in the Earth system
sciences.
Each FACT is a living monograph available via the World Wide Web
to students and scientists anywhere to study, modify, and improve.
The license ensures authors retain recognition, copyright, and review
priveleges over modifications to their original material.
The project contains three existing,
pilot FACTs designed to educate students and researchers about radiative forcing,
aerosols, and particle size distributions.
We encourage contributions of new material and FACTs from students,
faculty, and researchers from the international geosciences community.
Find out what happens when lecture notes metastasize...
- FACTs project description
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- Radiative Transfer in the Earth System
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- Natural Aerosols in the Climate System
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- Particle Size Distributions: Theory and Application to Aerosols, Clouds, and Soils
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(This document
describes how to (modify and) build all the documents below from the
source LaTeX file.
Everything you need to build, edit, modify, and re-distribute these
documents is on the web.
Please send us your patches and improvements.)
Note: Despite appearances, the FACTs project is not funded.
Funding under an NSF CAREER grant was denied in 2000, but I proceed
with the project anyway, hoping others will help prove it worthwhile.
The FACTs material here is a proof-of-concept for future funding.
Address questions and comments about FACTs to
Charlie “my surname is zender” Zender