Atmospheric Science Quotes

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

Much remains to be learned about stratospheric chemistry - and, in more general terms, about the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere.

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Meteorologists don't use a script, and most create their own graphics and certainly put together their own forecasts. Most of us went to school to become scientists - at least I did - and studied thermodynamics, physics, and tons of calculus to take this young science to the next level. Our accuracy is amazing and will only continue to improve.

The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.

I'm just moving clouds today, tomorrow I'll try mountains.

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn't believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say.

Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.