CLIMATOLOGY And It's APPLICATION - RTC, Regional Training ...

CLIMATOLOGICAL DIVISION
Temporal Scale of Climatology:
A temporal scale is an interval of time. It can range from minutes and hours
to decades to centuries and longer. The characteristics of an element over an hour
are important, for example, in agricultural operations such as pesticide control and
in monitoring energy usage for heating and cooling. The characteristics of an
element over a day might determine, for example, the human activities that can be
safely pursued. The climate over months or years can determine, for example, the
crops that can be grown or the availability of drinking water. Longer time scales of
decades and centuries are important for studies of climate variation caused by
natural phenomena such as atmospheric and oceanic circulation changes and by the
activities of humans.