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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Meteorology. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Meteorology
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 3 3 2 137 145
Featured list FL 2 2
A-Class article A 1 22 23
Good article GA 6 6 15 2 368 397
B 4 14 22 14 120 174
C 8 12 31 8 204 263
Start 2 35 123 107 786 1053
Stub 1 9 77 223 384 694
List 4 2 45 51
Assessed 24 77 275 358 2068 2802
Unassessed 1 88 89
Total 24 77 275 359 2156 2891

This table includes data from all sub-projects (Tropical cyclones, Non-tropical cyclones, and Severe weather) under the "None" importance column.

Title

WikiProject on Meteorology and Weather Events

Scope

The purpose of the Meteorology and Weather Events project is a large-scale initiative that simplifies and standardizes pages for all weather events, improves the information available for past events and works to provide better information for all future events. In addition, the project also improves and simplifies pages for general meteorology.

Weather events include tropical cyclones (covered in a separate project), tornadoes (also covered in a separate project), floods, wind storms, winter storms, droughts, extreme heat/cold and lightning events. Historical events involving or caused by these phenomena may also be included.

Meteorology includes atmospheric and oceanic phenomena, weather observation stations and networks, weather instrumentation and equipment, biographical articles on notable meteorologists, weather research projects, weather prediction and modeling, and phenomena related to every-day weather.

Related topics in climatology, geology and space science may also fall under the scope of this vast project.

Parentage

None

Descendant WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects

None directly similar

Related WikiProjects

Related Wikiportals

Participants

Active members

To show you are a member, add the {{User Meteorology}} userbox to your userpage:

This user is a member of WikiProject Meteorology and Weather Events.

Inactive participants

Former members

Goals

1) Standardize all pages for weather events, somewhat modeled after the tropical cyclone pages.

2) Improve the pages for weather features and make more real-world examples.

3) Learn more for historical weather events, and provide more information for current weather systems.

Each individual event type also forms a subproject. Ultimately this could be a parent of each different project.

Sub-Projects

The project is divided into several subproject sections:

  1. Forecasting and warnings
  2. Hurricanes/tropical cyclones (This currently operates as a separate project)
  3. Non-tropical/winter storms (This is now a descendant project)
  4. Severe weather (This is now a descendant project)
  5. Floods
  6. Droughts and fire events
  7. Extremes in temperature
  8. Weather data and instrumentation
  9. General meteorology (essentially anything which does not fall into above categories)

Currently, all but the tropical cyclone, severe weather, and non-tropical storms projects fall into the scope of the general meteorology project. Our aim for the future is to have some or all of these become descendant, separate Wikiprojects, just as the tropical cyclone and severe weather projects currently are.

Format for articles

  • Lede section (with infobox if applicable)
  • Main body
    • For a weather event, this should include a summary of events leading up to, during, and after the event. It should also emphasize its impact and significance in the time that it occurred.
    • For a type of weather, phenomenon, or theory, this should include a history of its observation, a description of the phenomenon, and its significance.
    • For weather instrumentation or equipment, this should include a brief history of its invention, along with its applications and uses.
    • For a biographical article, this should include a brief overview of the person's life, with an in-depth look at their contributions to meteorology.
  • See also
    • This should include links (within wikipedia) to related phenomena, events, people, or other articles pertinent to the subject.
  • References
  • External Links


Note on units: All quantities should be expressed in both imperial units and metric units, regardless of the affected area. The primary measurements used in this project are imperial units, although primary-metric can be used in events that only affect regions that use only the metric system (i.e. Canada, Mexico, most of Europe). For example, to show winds of 50 mph, it should be listed as "50 mph (80 km/h)" in most circumstances. Rounding should be done to reasonable levels.

Note on galleries: It is not desirable to have an image gallery in a main article. However, linking to a gallery on Wikimedia commons using {{commons}} is very helpful. To upload a file to the Commons, click here (you must create/have a commons account to do this). For instructions on creating a commons gallery, see here.

Tornado outbreak format


Templates

See also Category:Meteorology templates

Infoboxes

  • {{Infobox storm}} for everything that doesn't fit in the specific templates below.
  • {{Infobox tornado outbreak}} provides a template for brief information at the top of the page for tornado outbreaks, including the date
  • {{Infobox tornado single}} provides the same information for events involving a single tornado
  • {{Infobox winter storm}} provides information such as peak intensity and storm types for winter storms
  • {{Infobox cyclone}} provides information for cyclones with both a snow storm and tornado outbreak impact
  • {{Infobox Cloud}}
  • {{Infobox Weather}} provides a standard template for monthly and yearly temperature (°F & °C) and precipitation (in & cm/mm) averages for a specified location such as a city. Has a provision for referencing the source data and the date acquired. As well as automatic unit conversion, so an editor only needs to enter one set of values (if desired) and the other measurement system's units will be convert to and displayed.

(Infoboxes for other events are planned)

Stub templates

This template should be added to the end of stub articles which fall under the category of general meteorology or climatology.
This template should be added to the end of stub articles which are biographies of a meteorologist or a climatologist. -Runningonbrains 01:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
This template should be added only to the end of stub articles which describe a specific historical weather event.


Data templates

  • {{Tornado Chart}} for tornado events to show the number of tornadoes produced and their intensity

Current weather templates

  • {{StormWatch}} for ongoing storm events. Should be used for major blizzard/winter storms with watches and warnings, major flood events or for a Severe Thunderstorm or Tornado Watch when conditions are very dangerous (usually, but not always, a PDS watch).
  • {{Ongoing weather}} in place of the "current event" tag for ongoing meteorology events.

Talk page templates

  • One of the following templates should be included at the top of each of the talk pages of articles covered by this wikiproject:
    • {{Severe}} for tornadoes and related events
    • {{Hurricane}} for hurricanes or tropical cyclones
    • {{Non-tropical}} for all extra-tropical storms
    • {{Extremes}} for extreme temperatures
    • {{Flood}} for flood events
    • {{Drought}} for droughts and fire events
    • {{Weather-data}} for weather data and instrumentation
    • {{Meteorology}} for other articles covered by this Wikiproject which do not fall into the above categories

Core Articles

Article Need Rationale Links Quality Comments
Meteorology Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? C Needs help
Climatology High WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? C Needs help
Atmospheric sciences Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Start Needs a bit more work
Weather Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Good article GA Good article
Climate Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Good article GA Good article
Climate change Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? B Starting to get there
Earth's atmosphere Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? C Need help (particularly inline references)
Precipitation (meteorology) Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Good article GA Good article
Global warming Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Featured article FA Done
Weather forecasting High WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Good article GA Good article
Atmospheric physics High WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? C Needs help
Surface weather analysis Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Featured article FA Done

Classification Links:

Category:FA-Class meteorology articles
Category:A-Class meteorology articles
Category:GA-Class meteorology articles
Category:B-Class meteorology articles
Category:Start-Class meteorology articles
Category:Stub-Class meteorology articles
Category:Disambig-Class meteorology articles
Category:Future-Class meteorology articles
Category:Current-Class meteorology articles
Category:Template-Class meteorology articles
Category:Category-Class meteorology articles
Category:Unassessed meteorology articles
Category:Top-importance meteorology articles
Category:High-importance meteorology articles
Category:Mid-importance meteorology articles
Category:Low-importance meteorology articles
Category:Unknown-importance meteorology articles

Existing links

Categories

Lists

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Articles

General topics

  1. C-Class article Meteorology
  2. Good article Climate
  3. Good article Weather forecasting
  4. Stub-Class article Extreme weather
  5. Start-Class article Storm
  6. B-Class article Atmospheric pressure
  7. Good article Low pressure area
  8. Good article High pressure area
  9. C-Class article Anticyclone
  10. Stub-Class article Ridge (meteorology)
  11. Stub-Class article Trough (meteorology)
  12. Start-Class article Block (meteorology)

Hurricanes/tropical cyclones

  • See related WikiProject above

Non-tropical cyclones

  1. Featured article Extratropical cyclone
  2. Start-Class article European windstorm

Tornadoes and related events

  1. Featured article Tornado

Floods

  1. C-Class article Flood
  2. Start-Class article Flash flood

Droughts

  1. Start-Class article Drought
  2. Good article Wildfire

Extreme heat/cold

  1. C-Class article Heat wave
  2. Start-Class article Cold wave

Winter storms

  1. Start-Class article Blizzard
  2. Start-Class article Winter storm
  3. C-Class article Nor'easter

Other weather events

  1. C-Class article Hailstorm

New articles related to meteorology

Pages needing attention

Meteorology and Weather

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