Concept information
Preferred term
climate
Definition
- CLIMATE AND WEATHER are not synonymous. Weather is the condition that prevails at a given moment and may change within days or even hours. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change; Climate]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- air conditioning
- Arctic and subarctic climate
- arid and semi-arid climate
- arid lands
- blizzards
- butterfly effect
- climate models
- continental climate
- current (oceanography)
- desertification
- droughts
- dryland farming
- earthquakes
- Everglades
- floods and flood control
- framework convention on climate change
- glaciers
- global environmental change
- global warming
- hadley cell
- heat
- heat island effect
- heat waves
- humidity
- humid subtropical climate
- hurricanes
- ice ages
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- marine west coast climate
- Mediterranean climate
- microclimate
- seasons
- solar energy
- thunderstorms
- tides
- tornadoes
- trade winds
- tropical climate
- tropics
- tsunamis
- tundra
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- variability
- weather
- weather modification
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/climate
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