Alex Shoumatoff

The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. This is partly because it is a semi-open system. Moisture flows in and out unpredictably. A lot of nonlinear feedback loops and 'remote influences' - continental, transcontinental, oceanic, meteorological - come into play.

American Writer

Jon Meacham

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

American Editor

Lawrence M. Krauss

A snowflake is another beautifully ordered example of what simple, natural meteorological processes can produce. Stars form by gravity, collapsing into spherically ordered structures that can remain in this form only if they release tremendous heat energy into the environment.

American Physicist

Michael Shermer

Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

Writer

Used often in scientific and technical discussions about the weather.

Scientific Context

Commonly found in weather forecasts and news reports.

News Reports

Implies precise, quantitative data about weather patterns.

Data Specificity

 The fact that we can derive more knowledge by joining related information together and spotting correlations can inform and enrich numerous aspects of everyday life, either in real time, such as traffic or financial conditions, in short-term evolutions, such as medical or meteorological,

Big Data - Tim Smith

 enabling us to chart new paths and navigate through obstacles. Armed with a firmer understanding of the air pollution problem, and having managed to source over a decade's worth of data on air pollutant levels and the meteorological conditions for in and around Johannesburg,

You don't have to be an...

 usually has at least one sandstorm some experts believe the country's problem is a result of his fast-paced development China's meteorological Bureau has launched a monitoring system predicting sandstorms up to three days in advance

Meteorological