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What even is Climate
?
Abstract. Although the concept of climate is easy to understand, there is not any uncontroversial definition of it. Most definitions fall back to the simple formulation that climate is the statistics of weather
. Recent attempts at a definition called versions of this saying vague. Climate is policy-relevant, and discussions on climate and climate change benefit from clarity on the topic. Beyond the policy relevance a definition should also be valid for scientific purposes and for individual views. It has to account for a general concept and individual instances of climate. Here, I try to highlight why the flexibility and the immediacy of the colloquial definition fit the topic. This defence shifts the lack of a clear definition towards the term weather
and the time-scales separating weather and climate.
Climate?, Geosci. Commun. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-2018-11, 2018.
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RC1: 'Definition of 'climate' - 'What even is 'Climate'?', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Intended changes to manuscript and reply to referee comments', Oliver Bothe, 08 Oct 2018
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RC2: 'Review for gc-2018-11 What is even climate?', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Intended changes to manuscript and reply to referee comments', Oliver Bothe, 08 Oct 2018
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RC1: 'Definition of 'climate' - 'What even is 'Climate'?', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Intended changes to manuscript and reply to referee comments', Oliver Bothe, 08 Oct 2018
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RC2: 'Review for gc-2018-11 What is even climate?', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Intended changes to manuscript and reply to referee comments', Oliver Bothe, 08 Oct 2018
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Oliver Bothe
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you getis an appropriate definition that, however, depends on the definition of what may be seen as
weather.