AGU Index Terms

Thesaurus for indexing AGU journal articles and meeting abstracts, covering Earth and Space sciences, including in-depth coverage of physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, marine geology and geophysics, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, biogeosciences, and global change.

The index terms cover a wide range of earth science domains as can be seen from the list of Top-Level Categories:

• Atmospheric Composition and Structure
• Atmospheric Processes
• Biogeosciences
• Computational Geophysics
• Cryosphere
• Education
• Electromagnetics
• Exploration Geophysics
• Geochemistry
• Geochronology
• Geodesy and Gravity
• Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
• Global Change
• History of Geophysics
• Hydrology
• Interplanetary Physics
• Ionosphere
• Magnetospheric Physics
• Marine Geology and Geophysics
• Mathematical Geophysics
• Mineralogy and Petrology
• Mineral Physics
• Nonlinear Geophysics
• Oceanography: General
• Oceanography: Physical
• Oceanography: Biological and Chemical
• Paleoceanography
• Physical Properties of Rocks
• Planetary Sciences: Astrobiology
• Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets
• Planetary Sciences: Fluid Planets
• Planetary Sciences: Comets and Small Bodies
• Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects
• Policy Sciences
• Public Issues
• Radio Science
• Seismology
• Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy
• Space Plasma Physics
• Space Weather
• Structural Geology
• Tectonophysics
• Volcanology
• Geographic Location
• Information Related to Geologic Time
• General or Miscellaneous
• Corrections

Under each category is a list of terms that is used to describe areas of scientific activity within that domain.