Draft:Outline of climatology

Climatology can be described as all of the following:

• Academic discipline
• Branch of science
• Branch of Earth science – field of science related to the planet Earth. Earth science is the branch of science dealing with the physical constitution of the earth and its atmosphere.
• Atmospheric science
• Subfield of physical geography

• Applied climatology – uses climatic principles and analysis to solve human problems related to water resources, agriculture, health, and forestry.
• Bioclimatology
• Dynamic climatology – studies the atmospheric motion of the atmosphere such as disturbance and wind circulation. It was introduced by Bergeron 1930.
• Earth rainfall climatology –
• United States rainfall climatology –
• Historical climatology –
• Paleoclimatology –
• Paleotempestology –
• Physical climatology – studies the atmospheric energy in the climate. It was introduced by Milenkovitch in 1820 and Simpson in 1824.
• Synoptic climatology – studies the regional and local climate of an area with the aid of climatic weather. It was initiated by Koppen in 1870.
• Tornado climatology –
• Tropical cyclone climatology
• Pacific typhoon climatology –
• Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology –
• China tropical cyclone rainfall climatology –
• Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology –
• Tropical cyclone windspeed climatology –
• Urban climatology –

History of climatology

• Historical climatology
• Climate history
• Historical impacts of climate change
• History of climate change science
• History of the Gulf Stream
• History of the trade winds
• History of paleoclimatology

Climate

• Köppen climate classification

• Climate oscillation – Examples of climate oscillations and their frequency include:
• glacial periods of the last ice age – period around 100 000 years (see Quaternary glaciation#Astronomical cycles and 100,000-year problem)
• North African climate cycles – tens of thousands of years
• Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation – around 50 to 70 years, but unpredictable
• El Niño Southern Oscillation – 2 to 7 years
• Pacific decadal oscillation – 8 to 12 years? (not clear)
• Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation – 15 to 30 years? (not clear)
• Arctic oscillation – no particular periodicity
• North Atlantic Oscillation – no particular periodicity
• North Pacific Oscillation – ?
• Hale cycle or sunspot cycle – about 11 years (may be discernible in climate records; see solar variation)
• Quasi-biennial oscillation – about 30 months
• Climate change

Climate model

List of climate scientists

• Shen Kuo
• Edmund Halley
• Benjamin Franklin
• Francis Galton
• Helmut Landsberg

• Outline of meteorology

{{sisterlinks|Climatology}}

• [http://www.cnrs.fr/climate The Earth's climate – Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS – France)]
• [http://www.climatologynews.com/ Climatology News] Daily publication with news in all areas of climatology plus free news feeds for webmasters.
• [http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ Climate Prediction Center]
• [http://climexp.knmi.nl/ KNMI Climate Explorer] The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute's Climate Explorer graphs climatological relationships of spatial and temporal data.
• [http://www.aip.org/history/climate/climogy.htm Climatology as a Profession] Amer. Inst. of Physics account of the history of the discipline of climatology in the 20th century
• [http://www.sunpreview.com/ Sunpreview annual and global weather project]
• [http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/national.php NOAA Weather Service]

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