DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLIMATE & WEATHER
WEATHER
Weather may be defined as state or condition of atmosphere at a given place and at a given time. It is state or variation of troposphere i.e. lower layer of atmosphere.
Troposphere lies beyond the height of 8-18 km from the earth and is densest part of atmosphere where all weather phenomena e.g. rain, cloud, dew etc. occurs.
Weather is related to smaller area like village city or town and smaller duration of time i.e. day or part of a day and is always denoted by numerical value of meteorological parameters.
Examples of weather are- Rainy day, Hot day, Dry weather and cloudy weather.
CLIMATE
Climate is conditions of weather related to larger place or over a given region and longer duration of time.
It may be defined as summation of weather state pertaining to larger place; say zone, state, country, continent and longer period of time like month, year, season.
Examples- Hot season, Cold season, Temperate climate, Tropical climate etc. It is expressed in averages.
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The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WEATHER & CLIMATE
WEATHER CLIMTE It consists of short term like hours, day even a month It consists of long term like month, year, season etc. Weather is way how atmosphere is behaving with respect to its effects upon life and human activities. Climate is how weather is behaving over a long period of time. Components of weather are rain, sunshine, snow, cloud etc. It is summation of weather and describe precipitation, temperature, sunshine etc. over a long duration of time as averages It pertains to smaller area like village, city, district etc. It pertains to larger area like state, country, continent etc.
Climatology deals with the factors that determine and control the conditions of climate on the earth’s surface; while Metrology is branch of science in which we study about physical process of atmosphere that produces weather. It is science of atmosphere and its phenomenon.
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