tempestology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]tempestology (uncountable)
- (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.