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Exclamation weather variables and weather variations?

I came across this in general science syllabus and I can't find information about it anywhere.
Weather Variables (Global Temperature, Pressure, Circulation, Precipitation, Humidity) and Weather Variations.
I haven't been able to find anything.Please help me
I need the definitions or a link will work too.
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Weather is influenced by a number of factors. In this lesson you will learn about three key variables that control weather, and how they work together to do so.
Factors that Influence Weather

Although it may seem like it sometimes, weather forecasters don't just make up their predictions. They use the best available science, as well as three key variables that are critical to understanding weather: air pressure, temperature and air density. These variables are essential because, like a well-organized set of drill sergeants, they control how air behaves, and thus they control the weather. However, they are not mutually exclusive. Like a set of siblings, each variable is closely related to the others (whether they like it or not!).
Pressure, Temperature and Density

Let's look at air pressure first. Though you can't see them, air is a cocktail of molecules that fly around and bump into each other. Think of the molecules as billiard balls - as they bump into each other, they push each other around. You aren't going to notice one molecule bumping into another one, but if you add up all these tiny collisions and pushes, you might start to feel it! Those molecules also have weight, and between the weight of the air pushing down and the collisions between molecules, we get air pressure.

So, how does air pressure relate to temperature? Well, remember how I said the air molecules are moving around and bumping into each other? If they move faster, they bump into each other harder and more often. This happens when the temperature of air is increased. Warm air molecules have more energy, so they move faster and create more pressure. Likewise, cold air has less energy, and therefore exerts less pressure on its surroundings.

Density also plays a role. The denser the air is, the more molecules there are in that given space. It's like the difference between having a large party packed into a tiny living room versus having that same large group of people in a big recreation hall. The denser the air, the more collisions there are between molecules because there is less room for them to avoid running into each other, so we get more air pressure.

So, you can see that density, temperature and pressure work together to change the conditions of the air. When heat is added, air temperature and pressure both increase. And when the density of air changes, the pressure (and sometimes the temperature) does as well.
Adiabatic Processes

Now that you know how the three variables work together, let's take a look at how they affect weather. Adiabatic processes come about when air changes temperature without any gain or loss of heat. Huh? How on Earth does that work? Well, this is where density comes into play.

Remember our partygoers from before? If you put them in the tiny living room, they bump into each other more. The molecules in dense air do the same thing, and these collisions give off heat and create pressure. When there is more space to move around in, the molecules run into each other less, which means they give off less heat and pressure.

And because air has weight, it's affected by gravity. So, nearer to the ground, there is more pressure because there's more weight. As you rise in altitude, the weight is less, so there is less pressure and more space for the air to expand. This means fewer collisions, less pressure and less heat.

You can see this process along mountainsides. As warm, moist air rises up the side of the mountain - known as the windward side - it expands (because there's less pressure), and it therefore cools. As it blows over the mountain and comes back down on the leeward side, it gets compressed, which makes the molecules bump into each other more, and the air is then warmed by these more frequent collisions. This is why the windward side of a mountain has its name. This is where the wind first encounters the mountain.

It's also why the windward side is rainy and the leeward side is dry. Cold air can't hold as much moisture as warm air, so as the warm air rises up the mountain and becomes cooler, the water it holds is squeezed out of the air as rain on the windward side, and dry air continues on to the leeward side.
Clouds, Air Masses, Fronts and Storms

Do you think that if air rising up a mountain creates rain on that side that it also must create a cloud? If you said yes, you're right! Air pressure, temperature and density all contribute to cloud formation. As warm, moist air rises up into the atmosphere, it cools, which, as you now know, means that it has to let go of the water it brought along with it. The water from the air condenses into tiny droplets, which is what clouds are made of, and the type of cloud that forms depends greatly on the surrounding air - its pressure, temperature and density.

Air masses are huge parcels of air that cover large portions of Earth's surface, much larger parcels of air than the ones we've been talking about so far. As we learned in another lesson, each air mass has specific characteristics and when they meet up, they can produce an interesting variety of weather conditions.

Whether large or small, when air parcels meet we get fronts. The differences in the temperature, pressure, density and moisture content of the air masses makes one front slide over the other one, which can affect weather patterns by creating cloudy skies, thunderstorms and gusty winds. Fronts are like fights between air masses. Since they're so different, it almost feels like they can't decide on the weather, and the storms that follow are their conflicting opinions.
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you forgot to mention the source

http://study.com/academy/lesson/what...s-effects.html

Atmospheric Pressure

Atmospheric pressure is the force per unit area exerted by the weight of the air. In general it is the pressure differences in space and time that we are interested in. The spatial differences that we measure along the surface of the Earth give useful information about the local wind. The day to day changes at one location tell us what kind of weather to expect. Usually, rising pressure brings fair weather and falling pressure brings poor weather. We show the pressure corrected to sea level. The units of pressure are hectopascals (hPa).

Humidity

Humidity is a measure of the amount of moisture (water vapour) in the air. We are measuring the relative humidity. Relative humidity tells you how water vapour is present as a fraction of the maximum amount of water vapour that could be present in a parcel of air at the current temperature and pressure. If the temperature goes down and the amount of water vapour does not change then the humidity will go up. Relative humidity is expressed in percent (%).

http://www.islandweather.ca/information.php

2. General Circulation

The circulation of the atmosphere is dictated, as a first approximation, by the difference in heating between the tropics and the poles. The difference in surface heating leads differences in pressure above the surface. This in tern leads to air movement from the warmer cell to cooler. The corresponding change in surface pressure resulting from the redistribution of molecules leads to a pressure differential in the opposite direction at the surface. The direct thermal circulation thus created exchanges air between warm and cold regions.

This differential heating leads to the development of a direct thermal circulation known as the Hadley Cell between the tropics and higher latitudes. This circulation cannot extend all the way from the tropics to the poles however as the poleward moving air is turned right (left) in the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere by the Coriolis Force.

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/gl...ther_patterns/
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I think above topics are mentioned in MIAN SHAFEEQ book also
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what is weather variation ? please elaborate it
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