While climatology investigates the frequency and patterns of those occurrences, meteorology consists of short weather events level equivalent to a few weeks. The study of meteorology examines how the atmosphere behaves and how temperature, altitude, and other meteorological variables change through time. Climatology is a subfield of atmospheric physics, but as climate impacts every square inch of the planet’s surface, it can also be connected to the earth system and the hydrosphere (Rohli & Vega, 2017). The study of weather, or all meteorological phenomena, such as temperature, air currents, and chemical characteristics, is known as meteorology. Meteorology is regarded as a subfield of atmospheric science that studies weather events and changes that occur quickly.
Relatively longer behavior over an extended period of time is the subject of climatology. Contrarily, meteorology focuses on atmospheric events that occur at any moment and throughout brief periods of time that do not endure more than a few days. In contrast to meteorology, which focuses only on the atmosphere, climatology analyzes processes that are connected to both atmospheric physics and sciences like geology and astrophysics. While meteorology focuses on the present and transient changes lasting a few hours to a few days, climatology mainly deals with history.
Potential changing climate implications in West Virginia provide a rise in flooding, adverse effects on habitats and animals, an increase in some health issues like asthma, and the danger to some of the favorite leisure pursuits like snowboarding. The majority of West Virginia has heated by roughly one degree (F) during the past century, and the sea level is rising by one to two inches per ten years (Ehsani et al., 2017). Increased water levels aggravate coastal floods, degrade beaches, submerge low-lying areas, and raise the salinity of rivers and groundwater.
References
Ehsani, N., Vörösmarty, C. J., Fekete, B. M., & Stakhiv, E. Z. (2017). Reservoir operations under climate change: Storage capacity options to mitigate risk.Journal of Hydrology, 555, 435-446. Web.
Rohli, R. V., & Vega, A. J. (2017). Climatology. Jones & Bartlett Learning.