Asked by caleb

What are the long-term patterns in temperature and precipitation for a given location?

precession

climate

weather

albedo

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Climate.

Explanation:
- Climate = long-term patterns of temperature, precipitation, and other atmospheric conditions for a location (typically averaged over 30 years or more).
- Weather = short-term, day-to-day atmospheric conditions.
- Precession = slow wobble of Earth's rotational axis (a Milankovitch cycle affecting climate over tens of thousands of years).
- Albedo = reflectivity of a surface (fraction of incoming solar radiation reflected).