Reframing the climate-weather relationship
Seitter, Keith L.
Viewing Weather as the Expression of Climate
Année de publication
2024
It is common when speaking colloquially to describe climate as the average weather, which implies weather is the driver and climatic averages are a passive by-product of it, but it is useful to reframe this toward weather being the "expression" of climate. That is, a region's climate defines the range of weather it might experience (including the extent and frequency of extremes). In this framing, weather is driven by a region's climate. A changing climate then, necessarily, is experienced as a change in local weather events?often most visibly through changes in the extent or frequency of extreme weather.</p>
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