{
  "id": "weather.atmospheric",
  "term": "weather",
  "sense": "atmospheric",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "weather",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the condition of air and water that changes over time in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "air.material",
      "water.liquid",
      "energy.capacity",
      "motion.movement",
      "change.process",
      "condition.state",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "air and water, driven by energy and motion, interact and change over time, producing varying conditions in a place.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "changing atmospheric states",
      "spatiotemporal variability",
      "dynamic weather patterns"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Hurricane Katrina formed over the Gulf of Mexico on August 24, 2005, from warm seawater, atmospheric moisture, and wind shear.",
      "domain": "meteorology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland sent ash into the jet stream, grounding 100,000 flights across Europe.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Chicago's 'Windy City' nickname reflects Lake Michigan's influence on local air currents and storm patterns.",
      "domain": "urban geography"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "condition.state",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "climate.weather"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "weather",
    "weathered",
    "weathering",
    "weathers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition's implicit ontology: change.process, condition.state, space.extent, time.dimension. Definition remained accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-weather.atmospheric"
}