Wikibooks: Climatology/Introduction

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Pacific; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Climatology/Introduction

Climatology is a branch of atmospheric science as well as geographical and environmental science. climatology by d.s lal Climate is a dynamical system that is based upon the long term averages and behaviour of Earth s atmosphere both on the global scale and the regional scale. This topic aims to help your understanding of the basics of climate science as well as the many impactors climate has on the Earth as well as the impactors the Earth has on the climate.This modern field of study is regarded as a branch of the atmospheric sciences and a subfield of physical geography which is one of the Earth science. Climatology now includes aspects of oceanography]] and biogeochemistry. Basic knowledge of climate can be used within shorter term weather forecasting using analog techniques such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) the Northern Annular Mode (NAM) which is also known as the Arctic oscillation (AO) the Northern Pacific (NP) Index the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO). Climate models are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the weather and climate system to projections of future climate.Climatology the science that studies climate is a young science with modern climate science only emerging from meteorology oceanography and geology in the late 20th Century it is highly dependent of mathematical models and estimates that rely in a constant gathering of data improved sensors and historical records (natural or human generated). Of course people have been interested in the natural world including movements of air and water for a very long time. An in general the sciences are still very imprecise at short or very long time frames even if precision tends to increase over large geographical areas. Meteorologists and atmospheric scientists often say that climate is what you expect weather is what you get. Early climate researchers include Edmund Halley who published ...