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Introducing Climate Topics. Climate refers to "The statistical collection and representation of the weather conditions for a specified area during a specified time interval, usually decades, together with a description of the state of the external system or boundary conditions. The properties that characterize the climate are thermal (temperatures of the surface air, water, land, and ice), kinetic (wind and ocean currents, together with associated vertical motions and the motions of air masses, aqueous humidity, cloudiness and cloud water content, groundwater, lake lands, and water content of snow on land and sea ice), nd static (pressure and density of the atmosphere and ocean, composition of the dry ir, salinity of the oceans, and the geometric boundaries and physical constants of the system). These properties are interconnected by the various physical processes such as precipitation, evaporation, infrared radiation, convection, advection, and turbulence."

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Climate Word of the Day

The Climate Word of the Day is Primitive Equations. Primitive Equations in context to Climate means:

The Eulerian equations of fluid motion in which the primary dependent variables are the velocity components of the fluid. In ... Read More

Climate News

Climate negotiators reconvene this week in Ghana (AP via Yahoo! News)
Negotiators meet in Ghana this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming. Read More

Scientists urge U.S. to protect economy from climate (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Eight scientific organizations urged the next U.S. president to help protect the country from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting, saying about $2 trillion of U.S. economic output could be hurt by storms, floods and droughts. Read More

Group says climate resolutions increase (USA Today)
Support for climate-change proposals may be growing among investors in big U.S. companies. Read More

Pacific nations call for help on climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd joined Pacific island nations Tuesday in a call for immediate help to cope with the impact of climate change in the region. Read More

Climate Conundrum (US News & World Report)
"Protecting Mother Nature" [July 21-28] makes the statement, "Now that there is consensus that global climate change is happening...." Read More

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