OEO Ontology

Overview / Open Energy Ontology / Class - climate system
Label: climate system

Definition:
A climate system is a system that has five interacting components: the atmosphere (air), the hydrosphere (water), the cryosphere (ice and permafrost), the lithosphere (earth's upper rocky layer) and the biosphere (living things).

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Definition:
A material entity consisting of multiple components that are causally integrated.

Editor note:
May be replaced by a BFO class, as discussed in http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/4/1/43