The difference between meteorology, weather, and climate

Different interpretations:

1. Meteorology, in popular terms, refers to the wind, clouds, rain, snow, frost, dew, lightning, and thunder that occur in the sky and all physical phenomena of the atmosphere; and "weather" refers to the comprehensive conditions that affect the instantaneous meteorological characteristics of human activities.

2. Climate is a natural environmental factor formed by the long-term energy exchange and mass exchange process between the earth and the atmosphere. It can also be said to be the long-term average state of meteorological elements.

3. Weather refers to the comprehensive conditions that affect the instantaneous meteorological characteristics of human activities. Various meteorological changes that occur in the atmosphere in a certain area and within a certain period of time, such as temperature, humidity, air pressure, precipitation, wind, clouds, etc.

Different usages:

1. Weather:? Weather is a general term for the atmospheric state (such as cold and warm, wind and rain, dryness and humidity, cloudy and sunny, etc.) and its changes in a certain area within a short period of time. . ?

2. Climate: Climate is the average or statistical state of meteorological elements and weather phenomena over a long period of time, with time scales ranging from months, seasons, years, years to hundreds of years or more.

3. Meteorology: the general term for various physical phenomena and physical processes such as heat and cold, dryness and humidity, wind, clouds, rain, snow, frost, fog, thunder and lightning in the atmosphere

Extended information:

1. Synonyms of weather:

1. Meteorology?

Explanation: The state and phenomenon of the atmosphere, such as wind, lightning, thunder, Frost, snow, etc.

Citation: Yao Xueyin's "Li Zicheng" Volume 1, Chapter 14: "There are no mountains and no flat land...that is the way to conquer the country."

2. The color of the sky ?

Explanation: The color of the sky refers to the morning and evening of time and changes in weather.

Quotation: Zhou Libo's "Great Changes in Mountains and Villages" Part 1: "It's getting late... I won't be with you anymore."

2. Synonyms of climate:

Temperature?

Explanation: The temperature of the air. The temperature is directly determined by solar radiation and solar height, and is also affected by airflow, cloud cover, terrain and other conditions.

Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia--Weather

Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia--Weather and climate