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Meteorology

Meteorology, is the study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. Meteorological phenomena are observable weather events which illuminate and are explained by the science of meteorology. Those events are bound by the variables that exist in Earth's atmosphere. They are temperature, pressure, water vapor, and the gradients and interactions of each variable, to name a few.
 
Meteorology, climatology, and atmospheric physics[?] are subsets of the atmospheric sciences.
 
Meteorological topics and phenomena clouds, cloud, air mass

Weather forecasting

Cyclone, anticyclone

Thunderstorm

Climate, El Niņo

Other Events

Meteorological Instrumentation and Equipment

See also: Timeline of meteorology, extreme value theory, Alfred Wegener.



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