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Topic: climate
Definition:

  • the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
  • "the dank climate of southern Wales"
  • "plants from a cold clime travel best in winter" the prevailing psychological state
  • "the climate of opinion"
  • "the national mood had changed radically since the last election"

    Related tag cloud:

  • weather
  • environment
  • meteorology
  • energy
  • temperature
  • change
  • global
  • travel
  • wind
  • atmosphere
  • marine
  • research
  • greenhouse
  • geography
  • warming
  • climatology
  • ozone
  • pollution
  • ocean
  • oceanography
  • hurricane
    • Resources:

    World Climate Data
    Weather rainfall and temperature data with long-term monthly averages for over 20,000 weather stations worldwide.
    http://www.worldclimate.com/

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
    Established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess available scientific, technical, and socio-economic information in the field of climate change.
    http://www.ipcc.ch/

    Climate Prediction Center
    The National Weather Service agency that maintains a continuous watch on short term climate fluctuations and diagnoses and predicts them.
    http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
    Reports, research, and information from UNFCCC.
    http://www.unfccc.int/

    Climate Diagnostics Center
    The mission of CDC is to identify the nature and causes of climate variations on time scales ranging from a month to centuries.
    http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/