= Weather =

The equator generates a lot of rising water vapor, the driver for global weather.  It is not [[WeatherPictures | cloudless ]]
or wind free, but better than most places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMWF_re-analysis

=== Weather Acronyms and Definitions ===

A bare beginning, more later

||   ECMWF || European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting || [[http://www.ecmwf.int/]]                           ||
||  ERA-40 || ECMWF data re-analysis between 1957 and 2002         || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMWF_re-analysis ]] ||
||     QBO || Quasi Biennial Oscillation                           || [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBO ]]               ||
||     SAO || Semi-Annual Oscillation                              ||