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All Phenomena

Discrete, dated physical events the earth has produced: historical earthquakes and their tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, mass extinction events read from the rock record, notable storms and recurring climate patterns, an ocean current and an ancient submarine landslide. Grouped here by the discipline whose live relationship names each event's primary process, even where a real secondary effect (an eruption's climatic cooling, an earthquake's tsunami) is also attached. Belongs here: a specific, time-bounded event with a real date or date range and a documented cause. Does not belong here: an ongoing physical process without a discrete date or event boundary, held under Processes instead, or an abstract principle or scale used to measure such an event, held under Concepts, even where the two are closely related, such as the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale (a Concept) describing the intensity of a historical earthquake (a Phenomenon).

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False sunset

Meteorology

Flood

Meteorology

Fog

Meteorology

Fog bow

Meteorology

Fog desert

Climatology

Frazil ice

Oceanography

Geyser

Volcanology

Golden hour (photography)

Meteorology

Great Oxidation Event

Geochronology

Ground-level ozone

Meteorology

Growing degree-day

Climatology

Growing season

Climatology

Gulf Stream

Oceanography

Haar (Fog)

Meteorology

Hail

Meteorology

Halo (Optical Phenomenon)

Meteorology

Haze

Meteorology

Heat Dome

Meteorology

Heat Wave

Climatology

Heiligenschein

Meteorology

Hessdalen lights

Meteorology

High-Pressure Area

Meteorology

Hitodama

Meteorology

Horse Latitudes

Climatology

Huronian Glaciation

Geochronology

Hurricane Katrina

Meteorology

Ice crystal

Meteorology

Iceblink

Oceanography

Ionized-air glow

Meteorology

June Gloom

Climatology

Kitsune no yomeiri

Meteorology

Kitsunebi

Meteorology

La Nina

Climatology

Laacher See Eruption

Volcanology

Lake-Effect Rain

Meteorology

Laki Eruption, 1783-1784

Volcanology

Late Devonian Extinction

Stratigraphy

Late Ordovician Mass Extinction

Stratigraphy

Limnic Eruption

Volcanology

Little Ice Age

Climatology

Low-Pressure Area

Meteorology

Marfa lights

Meteorology

Marine Snow

Oceanography

Marinoan Glaciation

Geochronology

Medieval Warm Period

Climatology

Megatsunami

Oceanography

Meiyu Front

Meteorology

Messinian Salinity Crisis

Paleoclimatology

Midnight Sun

Climatology

Min Min light

Meteorology

Minoan Eruption of Thera

Volcanology

Mist

Meteorology

Monsoon

Meteorology

Moon dog

Meteorology

Naga fireball

Meteorology

Nitrogen dioxide

Meteorology

Noctilucent Cloud

Meteorology

Nocturnal tornado

Meteorology

Novaya Zemlya effect

Meteorology

Onibi

Meteorology

Orographic Precipitation

Meteorology

Outflow

Meteorology

Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Paleoclimatology

Parhelic circle

Meteorology

Paulding Light

Meteorology

Pea soup fog

Meteorology

Permian-Triassic Extinction Event

Stratigraphy

Polar Desert

Climatology

Polar High

Climatology

Polar Night

Climatology

Polynya

Oceanography

Post-Tropical Cyclone

Meteorology

Precipitation

Meteorology

Pressure system

Meteorology

Rayleigh Scattering

Meteorology

Ring of Fire (Meteorology)

Meteorology

Rogue Wave

Oceanography

Saharan air layer

Meteorology

San Francisco fog

Meteorology

Sea smoke

Meteorology

Sea state

Oceanography

Sea surface temperature

Oceanography

Season

Climatology

Seismic Swarm

Seismology

Shiranui

Meteorology

Sky

Meteorology

Sky Brightness

Meteorology

Smog

Meteorology

Southeast Asian haze

Meteorology

Space jellyfish

Meteorology

Spooklight

Meteorology

STEVE

Meteorology

Storegga Slide

Oceanography

Storm Surge

Oceanography

Stratosphere

Meteorology

Sturtian Glaciation

Geochronology

Subsun

Meteorology

Sun glitter

Oceanography

Sunbeam

Meteorology

Sunglint

Oceanography
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