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Title: How do weather and climate differ? Why is it incorrect to define climate as "ave Post by: barry on Oct 1, 2013 How do weather and climate differ? Why is it incorrect to define climate as "average weather"?
Title: Re: How do weather and climate differ? Why is it incorrect to define climate as "ave Post by: robertling on Oct 3, 2013 Weather refers to the state of the atmosphere in the short term at a given location whereas climate is a description of aggregate weather conditions based on observations over many decades. It is not simply the average weather for the location because climate is based on more than just atmospheric changes, but also changes in the hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
Title: Re: How do weather and climate differ? Why is it incorrect to define climate as "ave Post by: barry on Oct 3, 2013 Content hidden
Title: Re: How do weather and climate differ? Why is it incorrect to define climate as "ave Post by: robertling on Nov 3, 2014 No worries, barry :)
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