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Biometeorology is the interdisciplinary field of science that studies the interactions between living things (plants, microbes, vertebrates, invertebrates) and atmospheric phenomena (wind, temperature, humidity, sunlight, greenhouse gas concentrations) on time scales of the order of seasons or shorter (in contrast with bioclimatology).
The field of Biometeorology can be very broad, including roles of weather on: 1) human health; 2) outbreaks of insects and pathogens, 3) the health and production of dairy, cattle, pigs and chickens, 4) frost prevention, 5) irrigation management, 6) modeling of crop growth, yield and crop management, 7) study of phenological growth stages, 8) integrated assessments with remote sensing and 9) future change in these systems with global warming and land use change
Living organisms, for their part, can collectively affect weather patterns. The rate of evapotranspiration of forests, or of any large vegetated area for that matter, contributes to the release of water vapor in the atmosphere. This local, relatively fast and continuous process may contribute significantly to the persistence of precipitations in a given area. As another example, the wilting of plants results in definite changes in leaf angle distribution and therefore modifies the rates of reflection, Transmittance and absorption of solar light in these plants. That, in turn, changes the albedo of the ecosystem as well as the relative importance of the Sensible heat and latent heat fluxes from the surface to the atmosphere. The height and roughness of vegetation affects wind drag and turbulence. This can alter the log wind profile above it.
Phenology is another topic studied by biometeorologists. Phenology is a subject that examines features of life history of plants, like when leaf out and flowering occur. These events are often triggered by temperature and heat accumulation indices.
Weather's health effects:
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