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| Short term climate forecasting. |
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| Long term climate forecasting. |
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| Climate fluctuates yearly above or below the long term average value. |
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| The meteorological study of climates and their phenomena. |
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| this is the rigid, outermost shell of a rocky planet, and can be identified on the basis of its mechanical properties. |
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| this is a layer of gases surrounding a planet or other material body of sufficient mass that is held in place by the gravity of the body. |
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| This is the liquid water component of the Earth. |
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| Those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost). |
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| the global sum of all ecosytems. It can also be termed the zone of life on Earth, a closed system (apart from solar and cosmic radiation and heat from the interior of the Earth), and largely self-regulating. |
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| The spinning of Earth west towards the east on it's axis. |
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| The orbit/spinning of Earth around the sun. |
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