GG101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cyclogenesis, Fujita Scale, Intensify
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Weather has a leading role in the vast drama played out daily on earth"s stage. Weather: the short-term, day-to-day condition of the atmosphere, contrasted with: climate, which is the long-term average (over decades) of weather conditions and extremes in a region. Meteorology: the scientific study of the atmosphere; the atmosphere"s physical characteristics and motions, related chemical, physical and geologic processes, the complex linkages of atmospheric systems, and weather forecasting. Developments in supercomputing include an earth-bound instrument network in the automatic. Weather observation system (awos in canada) and automated surface observing system (asos; in the us), and doppler radars are rapidly advancing the science of the atmosphere. Doppler radar detects the direction of moisture droplets toward or away from the radar, indicating wind direction and speed part of the development of canada"s weather workstation. Each area of earth"s surface imparts its temperature and moisture characteristics to overlying air.