ATOC 1050 Lecture 1: Week 1
22 Jan 2019
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Meteorology - the scientific study of the atmosphere and atmospheric phenomena as well as its interaction with the surface and oceans. Weather - the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place. Climate - average weather ; the sum of all statistical weather information that describes a place. Weather and climate are not the same; climate data cannot predict the weather (climate is what"s expected, weather is what happens) Temperature - a quantity that describes how warm or cold an object is with respect to a standard measure (average speed of atom movement in a substance) Kinetic energy - energy associated with the motion of an object. There is a positive correlation between temperature and kinetic energy. Heat - the transfer of energy into or out of an object because of temperature differences between the object and its surroundings (travels high to low) Units for the measure of temperature are celsius (c ), kelvin (k), and fahrenheit (f)
