News tagged with meteorologist

Revolutionary tool will methodically track ocean populations

Oceanographer Chuck Greene envisions a day when he will be able to observe the ocean the way a meteorologist observes the weather -- with continuous streams of data that allow him to see changes as they happen ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The world's biggest radar laboratory

In the past year, the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility deployed 18 new scanning radars at its research sites in Oklahoma, Alaska, and the tropical western Pacific. These ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Billion-dollar weather disasters smash US record

(AP) -- America's wild weather year has set another record: a dozen billion-dollar catastrophes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 37

Disasters in US: An extreme and exhausting year

(AP) -- Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 8

Worry more about Irene's water than storm's wind

(AP) -- Forget the wind and fury. Hurricane Irene's most worrisome weapon is water.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Thunderstorms in Beatriz show strengthening toward hurricane status

Tropical Storm Beatriz developed from a low pressure area that NASA was watching last week. Beatriz is now expected to reach hurricane force and hit western coastal Mexico today and tomorrow. NASA satellite ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's TRMM satellite saw heavy rainfall in supercell that spawned Joplin tornado

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sunday May 22, 2011, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured an image of the rainfall rate in the supercell thunderstorm that generated the deadly twister that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fire and rain: Fed scientists point to wild April

(AP) -- April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Heavy May snowfall takes Iceland by surprise

Iceland saw its first May snowfall for almost a decade over the weekend, with more than 16 centimetres falling on the capital Reykjavik, meteorologists said Sunday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Tornadoes whipped up by wind, not climate: officials

US meteorologists warned Thursday it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes in the wake of deadly storms that have ripped through the US south.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 15

'Climategate' undermined belief in global warming among many TV meteorologists, study shows

A new paper by George Mason University researchers shows that 'Climategate' -- the unauthorized release in late 2009 of stolen e-mails between climate scientists in the U.S. and United Kingdom -- undermined belief in global ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 18

Scientists use storm-chasing weather radar to track bat populations

Storm chasers have become bat watchers. A scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with meteorologists at the University of Oklahoma, is using mobile storm-chasing radars to follow swarms of bats as ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Russia's Kamchatka volcanoes calm after eruptions

(AP) -- Two volcanoes that erupted on the far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, blanketing a town with dust and spreading ash clouds across the Pacific, have mostly stopped spewing ash and flights are no long ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists try to harness super-winds that once carried bombs

The man from the Forest Service burst into the switchboard room with orders for the young operator. Keep quiet, he told Cora Conner, 16. Stay put.

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Sensing wind speed with kites

Kites have a storied history in meteorological research -- think of Benjamin Franklin and his study of electricity -- including being used to carry aloft sensors that measure wind speed. Previously, however, these sensors, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Meteorology

Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century. The 19th century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries. After the development of the computer in the latter half of the 20th century, breakthroughs in weather forecasting were achieved.

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; temperature, air pressure, water vapor, and the gradients and interactions of each variable, and how they change in time. Different spatial scales are studied to determine how systems on local, region, and global levels impact weather and climatology.

Meteorology, climatology, atmospheric physics, and atmospheric chemistry are sub-disciplines of the atmospheric sciences. Meteorology and hydrology compose the interdisciplinary field of hydrometeorology. Interactions between Earth's atmosphere and the oceans are part of coupled ocean-atmosphere studies. Meteorology has application in many diverse fields such as the military, energy production, transport, agriculture and construction.

The word "meteorology" is from Greek μετέωρος metéōros "lofty; high (in the sky)" (from µετα- meta- "above" and ἐωρ eōr "to lift up") and -λογία -logia "-(o)logy".

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