Climate and the Weather

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Albedo	Atmosphere of Earth	Attribution of recent climate change
Autumn	Biome	Biosphere
Climate	Climate change	Climate model
Cloud	Cyclone	Desert
Drought	Effect of sun angle on climate	Effects of global warming
El Niño–Southern Oscillation	Eye (cyclone)	Flood
Glaciology	Global climate model	Global warming
Greenhouse effect	Greenhouse gas	Ice age
Ice core	Köppen climate classification	Little Ice Age
Maunder Minimum	Meteorology	Milankovitch cycles
North Atlantic oscillation	Ozone	Ozone depletion
Portal:Weather	Post-glacial rebound	Rain
Rainbow	Retreat of glaciers since 1850	Satellite temperature measurements
Sea ice	Season	Snow
Snowball Earth	Solar cycle	Solar variation
Spring (season)	Summer	Sunlight
Taiga	Temperature record of the past 1000 years	Thunderstorm
Tide	Tornado	Tropical cyclone
Tropical rainforest	Tsunami	Tundra
Water	Weather	Weather forecasting
Weather map	Wind	Winter

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