ENVS 224 Lecture 1: Chapter 1 - Weather vs. Climate & Climate Change
5 Sep 2018
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Determine possible causes of recent changes in global temperature. Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a particular time and a particular place. An example of weather information would be the temperature in. Chicago today at 7pm is partly sunny and windy. Climate is a long-term state of the atmosphere at a particular location. Can be expressed as averages and extremes. "normal conditions is simply a 30-year average of that particular variable. Normal high at o"hare on august 27th is 81 degrees. Weather is what we experience each day. Climate is the weather we expect each day. Climate change occurs when variation exceeds the statistical limits. Sites are maintained 24/7 and are at all airports across the country as well as cooperative buildings: state of the atmosphere. We commonly express the state of the atmosphere by measure it using the following variables:
