tempestology

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English

Noun

tempestology (uncountable)

  1. (meteorology, rare) The study of cyclones, hurricanes and similar extreme events
    • 2017, K Hodges, “How well are tropical cyclones represented in reanalysis datasets?”, in Journal of Climate:
      Reanalyses combine observations with a short forecast from a general circulation model (GCM) to produce gridded datasets, constrained by observations, with regular output intervals, and can act as a bridge between the observations of TCs and simulated tempestology.