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Climatology

Climatology (from Greek κλίμα, klima, "slope"; and -λογία, -logia) or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospheric condition during an extended to indefinite period of time; weather is the condition of the atmosphere during…

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related to history · 27
Climatology → Arguably, Asia, BCE, Benjamin Franklin, Chinese, Early, Earth's, Edmund Halley, England, Europe, Francis Galton, Greek, Gulf Stream, Helmut Landsberg, Hippocrates, North America, On Airs, Places, Scientific Revolution, Shaanxi
related to Books · 22
Climatology → Ann, Anthony, Bartlett Learning, Contemporary Climatology, Croatia, England, Gillies, Harlow, Henderson-Sellers, InTech, ISBN, Jones, Modern Climatology, Pearson Prentice Hall, Peter, Rijeka, Robert, Robinson, Rohli, Shih-Yu
related to External links · 9
Climatology → Climate Explorer The Royal, Climate Science Special Report, Explorer, Global Change Research ProgramKNMI, Inst, Netherlands Meteorological Institute's Climate, Physics, Profession Archived, Wayback Machine Amer
related to Subfields · 7
Climatology → Applied, Historical, Paleoclimatology, Paleotempestology, The American Meteorological Society, There, Various
related to Climate data · 4
Climatology → As, Earth, Scientists, The
related to Differences with meteorology · 4
Climatology → Climatologists, In, It, Phenomena
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Climatology → study of climate as related to human history and is thus concerned mainly with the last few thousand years.Boundary-layer climatology concerns exchanges in water
see also · 1
Climatology → BiogeochemistryClimate

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climate weather models study change atmosphere system energy temperature data different global time changes climatologists variability years earth used oceans

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Climatologyis astudy of climate as related to human history and is thus concerned mainly with the last few thousand years.Boundary-layer climatology concerns exchanges in water0.90text
the El Niñoinstance offor instance climatic cycles0.80text
the ice agesinstance ofWhile scientists knew of past climate change0.80text
the concept of climate as changing only very gradually was useful for descriptive climatologyinstance ofWhile scientists knew of past climate change0.80text
ice coresinstance ofApplied climatologists apply their expertise to different industries such as manufacturing and agriculture.Paleoclimatology is the attempt to reconstruct and understand past cli…0.80text
tree ringsinstance ofApplied climatologists apply their expertise to different industries such as manufacturing and agriculture.Paleoclimatology is the attempt to reconstruct and understand past cli…0.80text
a global network of thermometersinstance offrom Earth observing satellites and scientific instrumentation0.80text
to prehistoric ice extracted from glaciersinstance offrom Earth observing satellites and scientific instrumentation0.80text
carbon dioxideinstance ofMost climate models include the radiative effects of greenhouse gases0.80text
CHELSAinstance ofExamples are ICON or mechanistically downscaled data0.80text
oceansinstance ofthe distance to major water bodies0.80text
oceans using knowledge of how satellite imagery relates to precipitation rates over landinstance ofwhich remains a useful method of estimating rainfall over data voids0.80text

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