Sentences with phrase «term average of weather»

The stock answer is that climate is the long term average of weather.

«Climate is, by definition, the long - term average of weather, over many years.

Not exact matches

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

Better still, get rid of the (weather and El Nino influenced) short - term five year averaging and show long term climate changes by putting ten and twenty year moving averages on the data.

Perturbing the initial conditions gives a completely different trajectory (weather), but this averages out over time, and the statistics of different long - term runs are indistinguishable.

Averaging smoothes out day - to - day and year - to - year natural weather variability and extremes, removing much of the chaotic behavior, revealing any underlying long term trends in climate, such as a long term increase or decrease in temperature, or long term shifts in precipitation patterns.

- What makes this period of time statistically significant in terms of climate (which is simply average of weather over time)?

Climate is an average of weather over «long» term.

In the case of climate models, this is complicated by the fact that the time scales involved need to be long enough to average out the short - term noise, i.e. the chaotic sequences of «weather» events.

[Response: Climate is the statistics of weather (the average, if you want to think of it in simple terms).

The definition of climate is long - term weather patterns or long - term weather AVERAGES.

Thus, even though the ice extent is about equal to the long term average right now, for summer weather typical of the past few years, the decline in ice area will be more rapid than in other years.

Could they produce sets of weather - maps that if somehow integrated over 30 years could produce a «supermap» showing actual climate change in terms of e.g average windspeeds, rainfall, cloud - cover, pressure and so on?

that is what the term «climate» means the average weather stats from the previous 30 years for a given area... the climate has no power, is not a force, and cant be called the «cause» of any weather event.......

Climate change is the long - term average of a region's weather events lumped together.There are some effects of greenhouse gases and global warming: melting of ice caps, rising sea levels, change in climatic patterns, spread diseases, economic consequences, increased droughts and heat waves.

Climate is defined as long - term averages and variations in weather measured over a period of several decades.

While the weather is always changing, especially over the short term, climate is the average of weather patterns over a longer period of time (usually 30 or more years).

Because weather patterns vary, causing temperatures to be higher or lower than average from time to time due to factors like ocean processes, cloud variability, volcanic activity, and other natural cycles, scientists take a longer - term view in order to consider all of the year - to - year changes.

Climate change (as the term implies) is a change to the climate, which is really a change to the average of the weather.

Climate - Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather, or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.

It is clear that in terms of weather, environmental health, extreme events, snow, rain drought and flood, the impact of a global average is trivial or less.

Water vapor, which is a greenhouse gas, albeit short lived, and a component of and response to weather conditions — but not, being so ephemeral, a driver of much longer term weather patterns (or climate)-- and due to it's heavy prevalence the greenhouse gas that is on average responsible for more re ra - radiated heat than any other, in fact is not warming, but cooling.

These averaged maps remove some of the variability caused by day - to - day weather changes, instead showing longer - term patterns that can affect weather and climate both within and outside of the Arctic.

Weather patterns that recur or persist over multiple seasons are called semipermanent highs and lows, because these patterns show up in long - term averages of the regional weather.

In probably the most depressing bit of statistical research I've ever done, I looked up just how cold next week's weather will be, compared to the long - term average.

In weather terms, you can't predict the exact route a storm will take but the average temperature and precipitation over the whole region is the same regardless of the route.

Summer weather was cool relative to the last five years with low pressure systems over the central Arctic typical of the long term (30 year) average.

«Or expressing that in weather terms, you can't predict the exact route a storm will take but the average temperature and precipitation will result the same for the region over a period of time.»