GEOG 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Anemometer, Angular Velocity, Intertropical Convergence Zone
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Warm sea surface temperatures fuel the updraft of air and generate circulation patterns that trans- form atmospheric disturbances into hurricanes. Ocean weather, the day-to-day uctuations in ocean conditions, such as warm or cold water, choppy or calm, fast-moving or slow-moving, murky or clear, and similar sea states. Scientists de ne weather as the conditions of the atmosphere or ocean (and even outer space) at a particular place and time. The averaged weather conditions are a quantity known as climate. Climate refers to the accumulated weather statistics over a de ned period of time, often for a speci c location. Meteorology: the study of atmospheric weather and related phenomena. Weather studies play a large role in weather forecasting, the prediction of weather at a given time and location. Climatology, on the other hand, is the study of long-term weather or atmospheric patterns. Ocean-atmosphere system, the mutu- ally interacting, interdependent system of atmospheric and oceanic processes.
