aerologyn.

1735 B. Martin Philos. Gram. Introd. i. 11 Aerology, which treats of the Nature of the Atmosphere, or Region of Air, and all the Phœnomena thereto belonging.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Aerography..amounts to much the same with aerology.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Aerology, the doctrine of the air.

1837 Pop. Encycl. I. 45 Aerodynamics, a branch of aerology.

1881 Science 5 Feb. 52/1 Hydrology has become specialized in Hydro-dynamics, Aerology in Pneumatics, Electricity in Electro-magnetism, etc.

1912 Aëronaut. Jrnl. July 166 The training he had received from his distinguished father..made any facts regarding aerology which he [sc. C. H. Ley] might contribute well worthy of..consideration.

1937 H. R. Byers Synoptic & Aeronaut. Meterorol. 1 In the United States, there is a tendency in some quarters to classify all of modern meteorology as aerology. This is probably because there was a desire to draw away from the older type of meteorology in which upper-air data were used but little, and it was thought that the term aerology might be better suited to the new methods.

1982 Isis 73 346 Enthusiasm for aeronautics promoted the advance of aerology, a subspeciality focusing on the investigation of the ‘free’ atmosphere well above the earth's surface.

2002 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 21 Feb. 3 He measures the rain as a holdover from an interest in aerology, a weather science, that began with his World War II pilot training.