What is Climatology all about?
Climatology is defined as (Penguin Dictionary of Geography): The science of the various climates of the earth, and their influence on the natural environment. Geographers generally take a climatological approach to the study of the atmosphere. Weather and climate are two commonly used terms which are sometimes not clearly understood. Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a particular point in time over a given region, while climate is a synthesis or generalisation of the weather observed over a longer time period. Meteorology and climatology represent the study of weather and climate respectively, the difference essentially being the different time scales and approaches used for such study. Meteorologists tend to concern themselves with the analysis of actual weather situations, while climatologists are more concerned with the aggregation of such situations. For example, a meteorologist is more concerned with the three-dimensional instantaneous structure of the atmosphere, while th
