CLIMATOLOGY: A STUDY OF CLIMATES &
THEIR DISTRIBUTION

Summer 2000

To distinguish between the use of the terms "weather" and "climate".
To explain in general terms three principal factors that determine climate.
To explain why climate encompasses both average and extreme weather conditions.
To demonstrate how many interacting factors shape global patterns of climate.
To explain the dominate role of solar radiation in determining climate.
To demonstrate the significance of climatic norms and anomalies.
To identify the bases for describing and classifying climate.
To describe in general terms the major characteristics of global patterns of climate.

A. WHAT IS CLIMATE?

B. WHY STUDY CLIMATE? - MOTIVATION FOR CLIMATOLOGY

C. FACTORS IN DETERMINING CLIMATE

D. CLIMATE AND ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS

(Biometeorology and Bioclimatology)

E. CLIMATIC CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES

Last revision 6 June 2000

Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706

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