Questions tagged [climatology]
In contrast to the short-term variable weather, climate describes the mean conditions of atmosphere. Thus it is the statistic of weather (mean values, extrema, etc.). Often a 30-year period is considered. When asking questions about climate, use this tag and also include the [atmosphere] tag.
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Who are the 3% in the often cited “97% of climate scientists”?
The media have variously reported that:
Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming
trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities.
Based on this ...
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What are the differences between Climatology, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science?
Please explain the main differences between Climatology, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science.
Thank you
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Climatology of the Indian Summer Monsoon - A modern consensus
Edmund Halley viewed the monsoon as a glorified sea breeze circulation fueled by different heat capacities of land and ocean.
The resulting meridional temperature gradient between warmer air of the ...
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Why are deserts mostly located on the western side of continents?
I read somewhere in a book that mostly desert found in the western part of a continent. So my question is that why is it so? I searched on the internet but I didn't get a reasonable answer for that.
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What makes a nuclear winter so extreme and destructive?
This may be a sort of, pertinent to the times, and disturbing question, inspired by the difficulties surrounding North Korea and the situation with it and nuclear weapons.
I've heard of this idea of "...
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Oceanic-atmospheric coupling between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean basins
The two great basins - Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean have their respective oscillations Indian Ocean Dipole and El Nino Southern oscillation that affect the climate of the regions as well as the ...
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Why would geostrophic theory be invoked in the tropics with regards to the MJO?
In this paper reviewing the Madden-Julian Oscillation, frequently geostrophic theory (or approximately geostrophic) is often invoked. However, for geostrophic theory to be invoked, $$Ro=\frac{U}{f_0L}&...
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Difference between NCEP's 20th Century daily Forecast and Analysis variables
NCEP's Twentieth Century Reanalysis (V2) provides daily variables from 1871/01/01 to 2012/12/31. Monolayer analysis variables are made available in a regular grid and forecast variables in a gaussian ...
