meteorology
Sign in to saveMeteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e., weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agriculture, construction, weather warnings, and disaster management.
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Meteorology is the scientific study of Earth's atmosphere and weather patterns, with a primary goal of predicting what the weather will be. Understanding meteorology matters because accurate weather forecasts help protect people and support critical activities like flying airplanes, farming, generating energy, and managing natural disasters.
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- Etymology
- History
- Ancient meteorology up to the time of Aristotle
- Aristotelian meteorology
- Meteorology after Aristotle
- Instruments and classification scales
- Atmospheric composition research
- Research into cyclones and air flow
- Observation networks and weather forecasting
- Numerical weather prediction
- Meteorologists
- Equipment
- Spatial scales
- Microscale
- Mesoscale
- Synoptic scale
- Global scale
- Branches of meteorology
- Based on methodological approach
- Physical meteorology
- Dynamic meteorology
- Synoptic meteorology
- Based on scale
- Boundary layer meteorology
- Applications
- Weather forecasting
- Aviation meteorology
- Agricultural meteorology
- Hydrometeorology
- Nuclear meteorology
- Maritime meteorology
- Military meteorology
- Environmental meteorology
- Renewable energy
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias
- History
- External links
Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e., weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agriculture, construction, weather warnings, and disaster management.
Along with climatology, atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry, and aeronomy, meteorology forms the broader field of the atmospheric sciences. The interactions between Earth's atmosphere and its oceans (notably El Niño and La Niña) are studied in the interdisciplinary field of hydrometeorology. Other interdisciplinary areas include biometeorology, space weather, and planetary meteorology. Marine weather forecasting relates meteorology to maritime and coastal safety, based on atmospheric interactions with large bodies of water.