EESB03H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Weather: the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. Climate: the weather in some location averaged over some long period, includes higher order statistics such as standard deviation and record of extreme (typically 30 years of data used) Meteorology: the science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere; especially weather process and weather forecasting. Climatology: the science of climates, their phenomena and causes (physical mechanisms) Climate change: a net change in climate characteristics such as mean and/or standard deviation and/or extremes. Climate variability: the variation about the mean, typically expressed as standard deviation or extreme (source long term oscillations in climate such as enso and nao) Weather extremes: extreme values of meteorological variables such as temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed, etc. for a given location or intense organized meteorological phenomena such as storms, tornadoes, hurricanes.
