Atmospheric Science

Atmospheric science includes studies of atmospheric structure, meteorology, and climatology.

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History

Prehistory including early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory might be connected. Antiquity including the 5th millenium BC, 4th millennium BC, 3rd millennium BC, 2nd millennium BC, and early 1st millennium BC can be connected. Classical and medieval times including early classical, late classical, early medieval, and late medieval times can be connected.

It has grown substantially in modern times including the 16th century and 17th century. The 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be connected. The 19th century including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late mid 19th century, and late 19th century can be connected.

The 20th century including the early 20th century, early mid 20th century, mid 20th century, and late mid 20th century can be connected. The late 20th century including the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s can be connected. The early 21st century including the early 2000s, late 2000s, and early 2010s can be connected.

The future has not yet been examined.

Sociology

Peoples of the world including nations and groupings such as Asiatic peoples and African peoples have contributed to atmospheric science. Particular nations such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be connected. Western Civilization including the United States will be important. American Indian peoples such as those found in the United States have been less significant. Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City can be connected. Social structure and change including social change, social types, and social structure can be connected.

Institutions including families, education, economics, government, and religion can be connected. Culture including material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture can be connected. The anthropology and personal studies connected to atmospheric science will be developed in more detail as the site expands.

There are some connections to biology.

The connections to geohistory, physical geography, and hydrospheric science will be developed as the site expands. Geology including interior geology, processes, landforms, petrology, and mineralogy can be connected.

There are also connections to astronomy. Cosmology and galactic astronomy are not much used. Stellar astronomy is only indirectly important. Planetary astronomy is vital. Atmospheric studies depend heavily on solar system history and the sun, and make use of solar planetary systems. Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all less significant than the earth (including the earth itself and the moon), which is also more significant than Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. planets. Minor bodies are less significant, but interaction with interplanetary medium is significant.

Atmospheric science uses chemistry extensively. Substances are significant. The atmosphere is dominated by a few elements. There are a few compounds, but these are minor consituents in comparison. The atmosphere is a mixture, primarily a solution of gases, but clouds and smokes are evidence of heterogenous mixtures. Changes include a few nuclear reactions. Some chemical reactions are important. The most important category is physical changes. Principally it is a few minor components that undergo physical change. There is concentration, mixing, some evaporation and condensation of these. Chemical systems have are primarily inorganic, with an emphasis on gaseous chemistry. There is little organic chemistry.

Atmospheric science uses physics extensively. Mechanics is important in atmospheric science. Particle mechanics is useful for only the most elementary studies. Rigid body mechanics is also minimally useful. Nonrigid mechanics including deformable bodies, fluid mechanics, and wave mechanics is highly useful in atmospheric studies. Gravitation, including surface gravitation, particle celestial mechanics, rigid body celestial mechanics, and nonrigid celestial mechanics is also useful.

Thermodynamics will be useful. Statistical mechanics is indirectly significant, but classical thermodynamics including systems, states, and processes is useful, and nonclassical thermodynamics including systems, states, and processes will be useful. Electromagnetism is also useful in atmospheric science. Electrostatics including charge, charge distribution, electric force, field, flux, potential, capacitance, and electric properties of matter is useful. Electric current including current definition, EMF, resistance, DC Circuits, and AC Circuits are also useful. Magnetism including current elements and assemblages, magnetic forces, field, potential, and flux, inductance, and magnetic properties of matter is useful. Electromagnetism also includes optics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are less useful. Structure of matter uses a little of subatomic physics, though atomic, molecular, and bulk matter physics are increasingly more useful. .