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Essence of Meteorology

Main article: Meteorology
  • Climate – the average and variations of weather in a region over long periods of time.
  • Meteorology – the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting (in contrast with climatology).
  • Weather – the set of all the phenomena in a given atmosphere at a given time.

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