NATIONAL An article on Tuesday about the possible emergence of El Niño, a periodic change in the climate, described the phenomenon incorrectly.
On that same day, a news article, "Oil Spill May Spur Action on Energy, Probably Not on Climate," described how that entrepreneurial spirit is likely to run aground in the last bastion of the status quo, the United States Senate.
Weather describes meteorological patterns on a short-term, daily basis; climate describes the same kind of patterns, but instead over a longer time-scale.
The chaotic aspect of climate describes the inherent unpredictability present in the behavior of complex natural systems (Merriam-Webster n.d).. Climate scientists understand this characteristic of the systems they study.
The study, published online today in the Journal of Climate, describes what future rain will look like in a typical year, but doesn't comment on how often drought might loom over southern California.
Climate describes weather over a long period.
Climate describes weather that occurs over long periods, such as decades, centuries or millennia.
Climate describes atmospheric behavior averaged over long time periods of decades and centuries across large geographic areas.
This is because weather occurs over a short time scale; climate describes weather over the long-term, such as decades, centuries or millennia.
The Kosñipata Valley has a perhumid climate described in detail in Rapp and Silman.
An international climate report described as Earth's "annual physical" this month found that a devastating dose of long-term climate change combined with a strong El Niño in 2015 left seemingly every other major climate record on the books shattered.
