Discipline

Meteorology

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Atmospheric Science

The study of the atmosphere over hours and days: the fronts, pressure systems and moisture that add up to today's weather and tomorrow's forecast. The discipline's founding text is Aristotle's own Meteorology, written around 350 BC, whose description of the water cycle, evaporation rising to form clouds that return as rain, remained the standard account for roughly two thousand years before instruments and mathematics replaced philosophy as the field's working method. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Central Question

Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena, with a focus on weather forecasting. 1

Scope

Meteorology studies the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere on timescales from minutes to weeks: weather systems, precipitation, wind and short-term atmospheric hazards. 1

Significance

Meteorological forecasting protects lives and property from severe weather and underpins aviation, agriculture and daily public planning worldwide. 1

FAQs

What is the difference between meteorology and climatology?

Meteorology studies the atmosphere over minutes to weeks and drives weather forecasting; climatology studies its long term patterns over years and longer.

Meteorology studies the atmosphere over short timescales, from minutes to a couple of weeks, and is the science behind day to day weather forecasting. Climatology studies the atmosphere's long term behavior instead, the patterns and averages built up over years, decades and longer. Weather is what the atmosphere is doing right now; climate is what it tends to do over time, and the two disciplines split along that same line.

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Environmental Health

Air quality and climate effects on health draw on meteorology and climate science.

Source Environmental Health (Wikipedia)

Has Scientist

Directed the Institute for Forest Meteorology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen from 1948.

Source Rudolf Geiger (Wikipedia)

Source Vilhelm Bjerknes (Wikipedia)

William Ferrel

Wladimir Koppen

Source Wladimir Koppen (Wikipedia)

Includes

Lake-Effect Rain

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Source Lake-Effect Rain (Wikipedia)

Low-Pressure Area

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Meiyu Front

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Source Meiyu Front (Wikipedia)

Mist

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Source Mist (Wikipedia)

Moon dog

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Nitrogen dioxide

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Noctilucent Cloud

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Nocturnal tornado

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Novaya Zemlya effect

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Orographic Precipitation

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Source Orographic Precipitation (Wikipedia)

Outflow

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Source Outflow (Wikipedia)

Palmer Drought Severity Index

Source Palmer Drought Severity Index (Wikipedia)

Parhelic circle

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Source Parhelic circle (Wikipedia)

Pea soup fog

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Source Pea soup fog (Wikipedia)

Post-Tropical Cyclone

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Precipitation

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Source Precipitation (Wikipedia)

Pressure system

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Rayleigh Scattering

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Source Rayleigh Scattering (Wikipedia)

Ring of Fire (Meteorology)

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Source Ring of Fire (Meteorology) (Wikipedia)

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale

Source Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (Wikipedia)

Saharan air layer

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Source Saharan air layer (Wikipedia)

San Francisco fog

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Source San Francisco fog (Wikipedia)

Sky

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Sky Brightness

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Smog

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Southeast Asian haze

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Stratosphere

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Source Stratosphere (Wikipedia)

Subsun

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Sun glitter

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Sunbeam

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Sunglint

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Terminator (Solar)

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Source Terminator (Solar) (Wikipedia)

Thunder

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Thunderstorm

Tornado

Tropical Cyclone

Tropospheric scatter

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Source Tropospheric scatter (Wikipedia)

Tule fog

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Source Tule fog (Wikipedia)

Twinkling

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Weather front

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Source Weather front (Wikipedia)

Whirlwind

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White squall

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Wind

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Source Wind (Wikipedia)

Wind direction

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1. Meteorology (Wikipedia)

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Lead section
Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e., weather), with a focus on weather forecasting.
History, Aristotelian meteorology section
Aristotle is considered the founder of meteorology. One of the most impressive achievements described in the Meteorology is the description of what is now known as the hydrologic cycle.

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Rudolf Geiger (Wikipedia)

Wikimedia FoundationHas Scientist: Rudolf GeigerView the Source

Fujita Scale (Wikipedia)

Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Fujita ScaleView the Source

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (Wikipedia)

Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind ScaleView the Source

Palmer Drought Severity Index (Wikipedia)

Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Palmer Drought Severity Index, Lead paragraph

Quote, Includes: Palmer Drought Severity Index, Lead paragraph

The Palmer drought index, sometimes called the Palmer drought severity index (PDSI), or the Palmer Z index or simply the Palmer index, is a regional drought index commonly used for monitoring drought events and studying areal extent and severity of drought episodes.

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