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Template:WikiProject status Template:Infobox WikiProject 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.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide.

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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 and winter storms (also covered in a separate project), 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.

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.

Related WikiProjects

Parentage

Descendants

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, see: WikiProject Tropical cyclones)
  3. Non-tropical/winter storms (This currently operates as a separate sub-project, see: WikiProject Weather/Non-tropical storms task force)
  4. Severe weather (This is now a descendant project, see: WikiProject Severe weather)
  5. Floods (see: WikiProject Weather/Floods task force)
  6. Droughts and fire events (see: WikiProject Weather/Droughts and wildfires task force)
  7. Extremes in temperature
  8. Weather data and instrumentation (see: WikiProject Weather/Meteorological instruments and data task force)
  9. General meteorology (essentially anything which does not fall into above categories)

Currently, all but the tropical cyclones, 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.

Related Wikiportals

Participants

Member userboxes

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Active members

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Bot

In 2013, WxBot was created to assist the project and its descendant projects. As the bot runs through AutoWikiBrowser, only tasks that can be performed in AWB can be performed by the bot. Click here to make a request for the bot to perform a task.

Inactive participants

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Former members

Awards

There are two awards, all of which are barnstars. They can be awarded to Wikipedians who outstandingly contributed to the general weather or meteorology-related articles. For the Barnstar 2.0 (and the default one), you can use {{subst:The Meteorology Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}. For the alternate version, which is the Barnstar 1.0 version, you can use {{subst:The Meteorology Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~|2=alt}}

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Newsletters

Each daughter WikiProject of WikiProject Meteorology has its own newsletter. They are:

Articles

Article alerts

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Format for articles

  • Lead 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 Template:Tl 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

Core articles

Article Need Rationale Links Quality Comments
Meteorology class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Template:C-Class Needs help
Climatology class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Template:C-Class Needs help
Atmospheric sciences class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-start " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Start Needs a bit more work
Weather class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-ga " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon GA Good article
Climate class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-ga " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon GA Good article
Climate change (general concept) class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-b " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | B Starting to get there
Cloud class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Template:C-Class Need help (particularly inline references)
Earth's atmosphere class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Template:C-Class Need help (particularly inline references)
Precipitation (meteorology) class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-ga " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon GA Good article
Global warming class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-fa " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon FA Done
Weather forecasting class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-ga " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon GA Good article
Atmospheric physics class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Template:C-Class Needs help
Surface weather analysis class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-fa " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon FA Done
Flood class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Template:C-Class Needs assessment after justaxn edits of July 2015
Drought class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? class="assess-start " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Start Needs help
Heat wave class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High WP:CORE. Our top-level article ??? Template:C-Class Needs help

Templates

See also Category:Meteorology templates

Infoboxes

  • Template:Tl for cloud types
  • Template:Tl for flood events
  • Template:Tl for tropical cyclones (aka hurricanes, typhoons)
  • Template:Tl for non-tropical cyclones, snow/winter storms
  • Template:Tl provides a template for brief information at the top of the page for tornado outbreaks, including the date
  • Template:Tl provides the same information for events involving a single tornado
  • Template:Tl for wildfires

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.
This template should be added only to the end of stub articles which describe a specific historical weather event.

Data templates

  • Template:Tl for tornado events to show the number of tornadoes produced and their intensity
  • Template:Tl 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.

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:

Userboxes

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Classification links

Template:Assessment Class Summary Template:Assessment Importance Summary

Existing links

Categories

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Subpages

Lists

Edit this list

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Articles

General topics

  1. Template:Classicon Meteorology
  2. Template:Classicon Climate
  3. Template:Classicon Weather forecasting
  4. Template:Classicon Extreme weather
  5. Template:Classicon Storm
  6. Template:Classicon Atmospheric pressure
  7. Template:Classicon Low pressure area
  8. Template:Classicon High pressure area
  9. Template:Classicon Anticyclone
  10. Template:Classicon Ridge (meteorology)
  11. Template:Classicon Trough (meteorology)
  12. Template:Classicon Block (meteorology)

Hurricanes/tropical cyclones

  • See related WikiProject above

Non-tropical cyclones/winter storms

  • See related WikiProject above

Tornadoes and related events

  1. Template:Classicon Tornado

Floods

  1. Template:Classicon Flood
  2. Template:Classicon Flash flood

Droughts

  1. Template:Classicon Drought
  2. Template:Classicon Wildfire

Extreme heat/cold

  1. Template:Classicon Heat wave
  2. Template:Classicon Cold wave

Other weather events

  1. Template:Classicon Hailstorm

New articles related to meteorology

Pages needing attention

User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription

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