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climatology
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climatology

Branch of atmospheric science concerned with describing climate and analyzing the causes and practical consequences of climatic differences and changes. Climatology treats the same atmospheric processes as meteorology, but it also seeks to identify slower-acting influences and longer-term changes, including the circulation of the oceans, the concentrations of atmospheric gases, and the small but measurable variations in the intensity of solar radiation.



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Many National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices are aware of the variation in ratios and use either a climatological value or an empirical method based upon surface or in-cloud temperatures (Roebber et al.
The USE of climatology to construct a physically based method for ... by Moore, James T. / National Weather Digest
Nobody knows if we are on a short trajectory to climatological disaster, or, as some believe, if we are overreacting to an eons-long process that will begin a vast self-correction and cool down without us.
COOL DOWN, ARNOLD, ON WARMING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
We are currently in a climatological pattern which favors not only more frequent, but stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic basin," said Steve Letro, chief meteorologist of the National Weather Service in Jacksonville, FL.
'05 hurricane season break records by BOAT/U.S. Magazine
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