climatology, definition of

• The description and scientific study of climate.
• A quantitative description of climate showing the characteristic values of climate variables over a region.

• Ryan Maue on Temperature Anomalies
  Together, comparing small areas of temperature anomalies on different parts of the globe is doubly misleading, a cardinal sin.
• Rethinking Climate, Climate Change, and Their Relationship with Water
  New open access paper by Prof. Demetris Koutsoyiannis Abstract We revisit the notion of climate, along with its historical evolution, tracing the origin of the modern concerns about climate. The…
• The Laws of Averages: Part 3, The Average Average
    Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is the third and last in a series of essays about Averages — their use and misuse.  My interest is in the logical and scientific errors, the informational errors, that can result from what I have playfully...
• Peer Review; Last Refuge of the (Uninformed) Troll
  Current peer review science, by attempting to explain away model failure, in fact confirms that the science is wrong Guest essay by David M. Hoffer It has become a favorite tactic amongst trolls to declare their belief in peer reviewed … Continue...
• New paper: climate models short on ‘physics required for realistic simulation of the Earth system’
  I’m pleased to have had a chance to to review this new paper just published in the Journal of Climate: An Evaluation of Decadal Probability Forecasts from State-of-the-Art Climate Models Suckling, Emma B., Leonard A. Smith, 2013: An Evaluation of...
• A hilarious view of Climategate I’ve never read before
  Scientific understanding and faith simultaneously on display:  ‘For climatologists, the search for an irrefutable “sign” of anthropogenic warming has assumed an almost Biblical intensity.’ – Fred Pearce, New Scientist, October...
• Ooops – Met Office decadal model forecast for 2004-2014 falls flat
  ‘The Pause’ claims another victim. Source: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2004/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2004/trend:2004 Paul Matthews writes: The skillful predictions of climate science Smith et al (2007): 0.3°C in 10 years...
• September doldrums – solar slump continues
  While many science related government agencies are shut down (NASA GISS is deemed ‘non-essential’ for example) some remain open due to statements like this: Due to the Federal Government shutdown, NOAA.gov and most associated web sites are...
• IPCC Climate: A Product of Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Built On Inadequate Data
  Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball “If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess” – Ronald Coase. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. – Anonymous. Climatology is the study of average weather over...
• Uh, oh. It’s models all the way down
  Dr. Judith Curry lets an announcement slip in comments. My understanding of climate is not helped much by climate models. Stay tuned, our big paper on natural internal climate variability just got accepted by Climate Dynamics Ask yourself why the …...

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