In South Asia climate is governed by the tropical monsoon system. The monsoons occur in summer and winter and are variable over space and time. Because of atmospheric circulation, the monsoon over South Asia alternates seasonally between equatorial...

Climatology is the study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time,[1] and is a branch of the atmospheric sciences. Basic knowledge of climate can be used within shorter term weather forecasting using analog...

A climatology of snow events with thunder reveals that the central United States, the Intermountain West, and the Great Lakes are the preferred regions for "thundersnow" occurrence within the contiguous states. This is the first national climatology devoted solely to the occurrence of snow...

The Way Forward Tourism is one of the world's biggest industries and it is also the fastest growing. World tourism grew by a record 260% between 1970 and 1990. The tourism sector is a diverse group of businesses and their clients that includes...

Dan Lilienthal says his farm can't take another dry summer. If the experts are right and current trends hold, he won't have to.The drought that prompted the federal government last year to declare an agricultural disaster area in 39 northern Minnesota counties is over in...

Global Warming: A noted Canadian climatologist gets death threats for refusing to embrace climate-change orthodoxy -- what Czech President Vaclav Klaus calls a "religion." Will skeptics suffer the fate of Galileo?In 1633, Galileo Galilei was indicted by the church "for holding as true a false...