{
  "id": "climate.weather",
  "term": "climate",
  "sense": "weather",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "climate",
  "domain": "environment.surroundings",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the recurring pattern of weather conditions over a long period in a region",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "weather.atmospheric",
      "time.dimension",
      "space.extent",
      "long.size",
      "occurs.event",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "region.spatial",
      "usual.common",
      "condition.state",
      "period.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "weather conditions across space and time form a recurring, typical pattern characteristic of a region over extended durations",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recurring spatial-temporal pattern",
      "regional atmospheric consistency",
      "long-term weather regularity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Köppen climate classification maps Earth's regions based on decades of temperature and precipitation patterns.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mars has a polar climate with average winter temperatures below -100°C, measured by NASA's InSight lander.",
      "domain": "planetary science"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Sahara Desert maintains an arid climate, with less than 100mm annual rainfall recorded over 50 years.",
      "domain": "meteorology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "weather.atmospheric",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "summer.season"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "climate",
    "climates"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "definition corrected to accurately reflect emergence from both condition and temporal period, which are necessary for describing stable patterns; original definition omitted key conceptual dependencie"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-climate.weather"
}