0508818 - ÚFA 2020 DE eng A - Abstract
Müller, Miloslav - Kocánová, Barbora - Zacharov, Petr, jr.
Meteorological terminology: international context and Czech experience.
EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts, Vol. 16. Berlin: European Meteorological Society, 2019.
[EMS Annual Meeting 2019. 09.09.2019-13.09.2019, Copenhagen]
Institutional support: RVO:68378289 ; RVO:67985955
Keywords : meteorological terminology * meteorological glossary
OECD category: Meteorology and atmospheric sciences; Meteorology and atmospheric sciences (FLU-F)
Result website:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EMS2019/EMS2019-628.pdf

One of main preconditions of communication is correct language. Therefore, science gradually developed its
own terminology which further develops as the amount of scientific knowledge increases. While Greek and Latin
were universal scientific languages in ancient times and in middle ages in Europe, respectively, national scientific
communities have used national languages and their own terminologies since the beginning of the modern history.
Even recently when English is used for communication within the international scientific community, the national
terminology remains the necessary tool for communication among the scientists and even more with the public.
Since 1959, the Czech and Slovak meteorologists have collected respective terms used in atmospheric sciences.
After a long period of preparation, a printed meteorological glossary was published in Czechia in 1993. It has
comprised more than 4000 terms, almost 80 % of them with explanation. Apart from Czech and Slovak terms, their
English, German, French, and Russian equivalents have been presented. However, rapid increase in knowledge
as well as in technologies during last decades made the printed glossary out-of-date quite rapidly. Therefore, the
Czech Meteorological Society reactivated its terminological group in 2010 and decided the glossary to be revised,
published online, and continually complemented. Since 2015, it is available at http://slovnik.cmes.cz. In 2019, the
online glossary was made much more user-friendly.
We present our experience with the revision of meteorological terms, transmission of the content online, benefits
of the online version, and our recent works for further improvement of the glossary (due to the cooperation
between meteorologists, historians, and philologists). We also present a brief comparison between the Czech
online glossary and several other glossaries (METEOTERM by WMO, Meteorological Glossary by AMS. . . )
including the Wikipedia.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299624