School:Meteorology
Welcome to the Wikiversity School of Meteorology.
Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific 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, and how they change in time. The majority of Earth's observed weather is located in the troposphere.
Meteorology, climatology, atmospheric physics, and atmospheric chemistry are sub-disciplines of the atmospheric sciences. Meteorology and hydrology comprise the interdisciplinary field of hydrometeorology.
Interactions between our atmosphere and the oceans are part of coupled ocean-atmosphere studies. Meteorology has application in many diverse fields such as the military, energy production, farming, shipping and construction.
Divisions and Departments
editActive participants
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- mikeu 21:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- Since 3 September 2014 with contributions to Weather Satellites. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 03:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
Inactive participants
edit- Snowman 21:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- Bushzachary from University of Nairobi, Kenya. 29:04, 29 April 2013 Local time.
News
edit- 29 December 2006 - School founded.
- 28 June 2007 - Climatology lecture started.
- 30 June 2007 - The Paleoclimatology and Weather Satellites lectures started.
- 24 October 2012 - Meteorology lecture started.
- 21 February 2013 - The lecture Atmospheric astronomy started.