Meteorology
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Meteorology, is the study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. Meteorological phenomena are observable weather events which illuminate and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events are bound by the variables that exist in Earth's atmosphere. They are temperature, pressure, water vapor, and the gradients and interactions of each variable, and how they change in time.
Meteorology, climatology, and atmospheric physics are subsets of the atmospheric sciences.
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Meteorological topics and phenomena
- precipitation, atmospheric pressure, dew point, weather front, jet stream, windchill, heat index, front
Other Events
- dust devil, fog, tides, wind, clouds, cloud, air mass, evaporation, sublimation, ice
Weather-related disasters
Meteorological Instrumentation and Equipment
- anemometer, barometer, hygrometer, thermometer, radar, satellite, Doppler radar, rain gauge, weather vane, disdrometer, weather balloon
Institutions of Meteorology/Atmospheric Science (United States)
- American Geophysical Union
- American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society home page
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NOAA: Severe Storms Laboratory
- NOAA: National Weather Service
- NOAA: Storm Prediction Center
- National Weather Association
See also: Timeline of meteorology, extreme value theory, Alfred Wegener.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Meteorology" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology August 15, 2003
