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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The meteorological study of climates and their phenomena.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of climate; the study of the climatic conditions of different parts of the earth's surface, or of particular regions: nearly equivalent to meteorology, which is more commonly used.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
science that deals withclimates , andinvestigates theirphenomena andcauses .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun meteorology of climates and their phenomena
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Since I obtained my doctorate in climatology from the University of London, Queen Mary College, England my career has spanned two climate cycles.
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Since I obtained my doctorate in climatology from the University of London, Queen Mary College, England my career has spanned two climate cycles.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Would you say that in terms of applied CS, climatology is behind bioinformatics?
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When I say "thousands" I mean all the scientists in climatology, meteorology and related disciplines who have contributed to any aspect of our understanding of AGW.
Open Climate Science or Denial of Service attacks? | Serendipity 2009
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All of these people are properly credentialed in climatology and/or meteorology.
Hansen: Obama has only four years to save the world - NASA Watch 2009
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Without significant evidence of its predictive ability, climatology is no better than astrology.
The Sun and Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The best thinking in climatology tells us that the Earth is getting warmer, that warming results from the increased release of carbon into the atmosphere, and that we can, through drastic reductions in the usage of oil and coal, slow that increase.
Natural Disasters 2008
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This is a personal essay about the last decade or two of my life as a novelist, about how and why my books have so often been about environmental issues, and about how the recent paradigm shift in climatology, recognizing the reality in the past and probably the future of abrupt climate change, became a central feature of the new trilogy of Utopian novels I am writing. by David Brin.
18 Non-Fiction Essays by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers 2008
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As noted by Bacon's Rebellion over a week ago, there are but two scientists on this panel, neither of whom have any training in climatology or meteorology.
Great Questions 2007
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That said, I would like to extend invitations to any of my colleagues in climatology or meteorology to join this discussion by posting a blog on this site or even coming on The Climate Code.
hernesheir commented on the word climatology
(n): the study of climates, climate patterns, and the interaction of factors that affect observed and recorded phenomena.
December 31, 2008