climatology
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noun
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Origin of climatology
Vocabulary lists containing climatology
Global Climate Change - Introductory
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"It's this repetitive or continuous threat and existence in a dangerous situation," Jill Trepanier, a hurricane climatology expert at Louisiana State University, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
Olympians might not be experts in climatology or conversant in all the relevant political arguments surrounding weather trends, but they have a ground-level view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
Just ask Dr. James Hansen, a professor of climatology at Columbia University, whose famous 1988 testimony before Congress helped raise awareness about the issue.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2024
And although this almanac doesn’t cite the moon’s influence on weather, it does rely on solar activity, as well as climatology and meteorology.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023
Perhaps the biggest of these unsolved problems is to establish human history as a historical science, on a par with recognized historical sciences such as evolutionary biology, geology, and climatology.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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