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.

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.

Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works

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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.

Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works