Meteorology as a modern science evolved after the beginning of the twentieth century, from nineteenth-century origins as a subdiscipline of geography, unsystematically defined by subjective rules of weather forecasting. Defining the motion and...

Eighteenth-century meteorological study in Europe marked interest in methodical observations on a larger scale, providing a more systematic and cumulative database to formulate early theories of atmospheric movement and phenomena. With innovative...

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...

Scientific study of atmospheric phenomena, particularly of the troposphere and lower stratosphere. Meteorology entails the systematic study of weather and its causes, and provides the basis for weather forecasting. &Seealso;...

The study of weather and climate. Synoptic meteorology is concerned with weather...

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