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- From: tobis@meteor.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis)
- Subject: Re: What is Climate?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.211618.3782@meteor.wisc.edu>
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Meteorology and Space Science
- References: <2B4BAA9B.27019@news.service.uci.edu> <dhalliwe.726454465@muskwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <2B4DB967.6682@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 21:16:18 GMT
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- In article <2B4DB967.6682@news.service.uci.edu> eapg137@orion.oac.uci.edu (Bryan Joseph Hannegan) writes:
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- >I was exposed to both schools of thought as a meteorological undergrad, and
- >I prefer the perspective of the global environment as well. (This is fortunate
- >since my next two years will be in class studying this very concept!) However,
- >there are still throwbacks who define climate in its most basic terms as I
- >mentioned in the previous post. I think that the latest findings in global
- >change science and earth science in general are rendering this "climate is
- >just average weather" thought obsolete.
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- "Average weather" is probably a weak concept, but the broader question of
- the statistics of weather (broadly interpreted to include the upper atmosphere
- and the ocean, if you wish) is certainly a useful one, and I see no problem
- with calling it "climate". The coupling between those statistics, i.e., the
- "climate" and other environmental and anthropogenic phenomena I would call
- "climatology".
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