Abstract
Based on the original work by Dr. Eduard Fontserè in 1948, an update of the meteorological terminology glossary in Catalan has been made, defining and designing a new online glossary style that incorporates new terms and photographs, grouping them into 11 categories or terminology branches. A photograph has been included for terms associated with clouds, meteorological phenomena, and instrumentation. Linked to the new glossary, a citizen participation option has been incorporated to propose new terms, thus opening science and language to the scientific community and society. The Shannon index has been applied to the terms distributed across the 11 branches to quantify and describe the diversity of meteorological terms in Catalan within the thematic branches. A new indicator is proposed to characterize glossaries: Shannon diversity in their terms to account the diversity in weather terminology. Additionally, a comparative statistical analysis of the 1948 (original) and 2024 (updated) editions has been conducted.
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