Why isn't that the term for the scientists that study meteors?
2006-09-02 09:03:18 · 5 answers · asked by lrad1952 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
climatology is to study climate. Meteorology is the study of weather.
MeteOros is Greek for "high in the air"
2006-09-02 09:06:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The difference between weather and climate is that climate is about long-term conditions, not day-to-day weather events. So you can predict that in 5 years time Death Valley will have a dry hot climate, even though you can't give it a reliable weather forecast that far ahead. It's the job of a climatologist to work out the effect of jet contrails on global warming, how much man-made CO2 will be absorbed by oceans and forests, whether global warming will release methane from sea floor sediments and create a positive feedback loop and so on, not to predict tomorrow's weather. Meteor and meteorology both come from the Greek word for sky.
2006-09-02 13:01:48 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. because climatologists deals with the long term weather phenomenon;
2. meteorologists deal with short-term weather phenomenon.
3. "meteor" is actually the thing that is inappropriately named because it is not something dealing with the atmosphere; they are the result of something impacting the atmosphere -- they should be called space debris.
2006-09-02 09:09:59 · answer #3 · answered by idiot detector 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
their head is in the clouds.
2006-09-02 09:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ever heard of www.wikipedia.org ?
2006-09-02 09:08:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋