Climatology
Climate Change
The science that deals with the phenomena of climates or climatic conditions.
- — ARM Climate Research Glossary retrieved 2014-06-12
The scientific study of climate. Part of meteorology which studies processes of climate formation, distribution of climates over the globe, analysis of the causes of differences of climate (physical climatology), and the application of climatic data to the solution of specific design or operational problems (applied climatology).
Climatology may be further subdivided according to purpose or point of view: agricultural climatology, air-mass climatology, aviation climatology, bioclimatology, dynamic climatology, medical climatology, macroclimatology, mesoclimatology, microclimatology, paleoclimatology, synoptic climatology, and others.
Weather
The science that deals with the phenomena of climates or climatic conditions.