- Climate science - Study of shooting stars, perhaps, or of the weather - The science which treats of the atmosphere and its
phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its
winds, storms, etc.
- The science which treats of the earth's exterior
physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements
or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere
and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.;
physical geography.