Does meteorology needs geography?
Of course. Meteorology is a branch of Geology. Plus, every place in the world has a different climate and amount of atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth doesn’t go straight around in a perfect circle. It has bumps and faults in it which make the weather everywhere differ! Geography is everything when it comes to specified meteorology…
Actually, Ms. Johnson and Mr. Wilde are not entirely accurate. Geology and Meteorology are both divisions of Earth Sciences and are not branches of one another.
As for every place having a different “amount of atmosphere”, that’s just plain wrong. The atmosphere is essentially the same everywhere, other than impurities added through industry—and the concentration of the atmosphere’s components (mostly nitrogen and oxygen) is the same at sea level or at 20,000 feet, though as altitudes increase, atmospheric pressure drops off gradually, making the air “thinner”.
When it comes to “bumps and faults” in the atmosphere, I have to say that you have a vivid imagination Mr. Wilde. Granted that there are variations in atmospheric pressure (maybe that’s what you meant) caused in most cases by heating and cooling (though the process is not really understood). Gasses—and the atmosphere is a gas—tend to distribute themselves evenly within a sealed environment, and the Earth is, in essence, a sealed environment (with exceptions such as gradual loss of atmosphere due to tidal gravity influence of the moon).
I don’t claim to be an expert (despite the name of this site), as I am not a meteorologist, and I suspect that my fellow contributors here are not, either, including the first snide, self-important responder from wiki.answers.com (and before he starts criticizing others’ writing, perhaps he should learn the proper use of a little thing called a comma, jerk). The simple fact is that none of the thousands of meteorologists all over Planet Earth has a clue about what makes weather work, how it originates or how it will ultimately respond to outside influences. If they did, they would be able to make accurate forecasts, and you know how unlikely that is.
First of all you could have the worst English I have ever seen. Second meteorology is the study of the atmosphere and weather and weather and climate can change the geographical formations and influence what happens in a location. Sorry about the first remark but it really bothers me when people write stupid things.
