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Weather and climate difference

Posted by Hirdey Preet Singh 8 years ago

CBSE > Class 07 > Social Science

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Kritika Trehan 8 years ago

<th scope="col"> </th> <th scope="col">Climate</th> <th scope="col">Weather</th> <th scope="row">Definition</th> <th scope="row">Components</th> <th scope="row">Forecast</th> <th scope="row">Determining factors</th> <th scope="row">About</th> <th scope="row">Time period</th> <th scope="row">Study</th>

Describes the average conditions expected at a specific place at a given time.A region's climate is generated by the climate system, which has five components: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, land surface, and biosphere	Describes the atmospheric conditions at a specific place at a specific point in time. Weather generally refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity
Climate may include precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind velocity, phenomena such as fog, frost, and hail storms over a long period of time.	Weather includes sunshine, rain, cloud cover, winds, hail, snow, sleet, freezing rain, flooding, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, steady rains from a cold front or warm front, excessive heat, heat waves and more
By aggregates of weather statistics over periods of 30 years	By collecting meteorological data, like air temperature, pressure, humidity, solar radiation, wind speeds and direction etc.
Aggregating weather statistics over periods of 30 years ("climate normals").	Real-time measurements of atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, precipitation, cloud cover, and other variables
Climate is defined as statistical weather information that describes the variation of weather at a given place for a specified interval.	Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term (minutes to weeks) variation
Measured over a long period	Measured for short term
Climatology	Meteorology