Climatology dictionary by Futura-Sciences

Alphabetical index

Aerosol An aerosol is a group of particles, in solid or liquid form, ...	Anticyclone An anticyclone is an air mass at high atmospheric pressure ...
Asian brown cloud The Asian brown cloud is a cyclical and annual phenomenon. ...	CCSM The CCSM is a combined global climate model, used at the ...
Cévenol episode A Cévenol episode is a meteorological phenomenon that mainly ...	Climate proxies Climate proxies are biological, geochemical or sedimentary ...
Core sampling Core sampling is a sample taking technique: an auger is used ...	Dendrochronology Dendrochronology (from the Greek dendros, tree and chronos, ...
Drizzle Drizzle is precipitation produced in stratus clouds. It ...	El Niño El Niño is a climatic phenomenon whose origin is not ...
Geoengineering Geoengineering is the artificial and deliberate ...	Greenhouse gas Greenhouse gases (GHG) are gases that contribute to the ...
Heinrich Event A Heinrich event is one of the six events identified in 1988 ...	Hygrometry Hygrometry is the science that seeks to determine the ...
Ice shelf An ice shelf, or ice barrier, is a particular characteristic ...	La Niña La Niña is a climatic phenomenon. It is not very well ...
Mesosphere The mesosphere is located between 50 and about 80 kilometres ...	Microclimate A microclimate refers to all of the meteorological ...
Ozone layer The ozone layer is the layer of the Earth's stratosphere ...	Palmer Drought Severity Index The Palmer Drought Severity Index is also abbreviated as ...