Meteorology is the study of all atmospheric phenomena, but it tends to direct most of its attention to the weather. The term "weather" refers mainly to atmospheric phenomena that change over a short time scale, including temperature, precipitation,...

Meteorology is the science that investigates the physical processes occurring in Earth's atmosphere related to weather and climate. The knowledge obtained from the study of atmospheric conditions, such as pressure, temperature, wind, humidity,...

Meteorology is a science that studies the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere. Accordingly, a person who studies the atmosphere is called a meteorologist. Meteorology consists of many areas: physical meteorology, dealing with physical aspects of...

Meteorology is derived from the Greek words meteora meaning things in the air or things above, and logy meaning science or discourse. It is a branch of physics concerned with the study and theory of atmospheric phenomena and is frequently equated to...

Meteorology (from Greek: μετέωρον, meteoron, "high in the sky"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. Meteorological phenomena are...

Meteorology. Eric Danielson, James Levin, and Elliot Abrams. 1998. 462 pp. Paperbound. WCB/McGrawHill. ISBN 0-697-21711-6. With many good introductory meteorology books for an instructor to choose from, what makes this text stand out? Like many, it is a good, readable book that covers...

Meteorologists Do More Than Just Gaze at the Sky Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, is credited with many things scientific. One of them is his Meteorologica, the first major study of the atmosphere. Out of Aristotle's discourse came the term "meteorologist" - a person...

A powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia before dawn Thursday, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and briefly triggering a tsunami warning.The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 and struck 85 miles west of Bengkulu, a coastal town on Sumatra island, the U.S. Geological...

Two of the most important Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached a record high in 2006, and measurements show that one — carbon dioxide — is playing an increasingly important role in global warming, the U.N. weather agency said Friday.The global average concentrations of...