The science of studying the characteristics of the atmosphere such as its temperature, density, winds, clouds, precipitation, and other atmospheric phenomena and aiming to account for the weather in terms of external influences and the basic laws of physics. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)
    

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Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the years 1807-1809. Coloured engraving by J. Girtin, 1810, after T. Hanson.

Meteorology: cloud formations above a rural landscape, with a key to the types. Engraving by E. Radcliffe.

Inventions shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1867 or 1878): a set of measuring devices for a meteorological station, a metal dish, and a table clock. Wood engraving.

Meteorology: types of cloud formations, and a waterspout (bottom). Engraving by J.W. Lowry.

Meteorology: a double rainbow over fields in the country. Engraving by Royce, 1805.

Prognosticon meteorographicvm perpetvvm. Ein ewigwerend Prognosticon, von aller Witterung in der Lufft vnd den Wercken der andern Element: so viel betrkfft die Ankunfft, Natur vnd Wirckung aller Wind, Regen, Schnee, Thaw, Reiff, Dünst, Nebel, etc. Durch die vier Quarten oder Zeiten des Jares, nach des Monden Lauff, in allen seinen Newen Vollen vnd Viertelscheinen. ... / durch M. Bartolemaeum Scultetum Gorlicium ; der Mathematischen kunsten besondern Liebhader. [Title continues in note].

Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

Report of meteorological observations for the year 1910, with extremes and averages for the preceding years / by John Dover.

Idées sur la météorologie / par J.A. de Luc.

Murray, John M.D. (1720-1792) of Wells and Norwich, Norfolk, ship's surgeon on H.M.S. <i>Conqueror</i>

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Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the year 1812. Coloured engraving, 1813, after T. Hanson, 1812.

Report of meteorological observations for the year 1910, with extremes and averages for the preceding years / by John Dover.

Idées sur la météorologie / par J.A. de Luc.

Murray, John M.D. (1720-1792) of Wells and Norwich, Norfolk, ship's surgeon on H.M.S. Conqueror