paleoclimate

American  

[pey-lee-oh-klahy-mit, pal-ee-] / ˌpeɪ li oʊˈklaɪ mɪt, ˌpæl i- /

noun

1. the climate of some former period of geologic time.

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Etymology

Origin of paleoclimate

First recorded in 1920–25; paleo- + climate

Example Sentences

Co-lead author at UEA, Dr. Daniel Skinner adds: "Bringing together knowledge from paleoclimate archives and climate models has given us key insights into how and why a critically understudied region of the world changed over the last 1,500 years."

From Science Daily

Paleoclimate data obtained from sediment cores are indispensable for this, offering insights into past climates that were warmer than today and helping to improve projections of future climate change.

From Science Daily

Reichgelt, for example, notes that while all the paleoclimate proxy models that rely on comparisons of fossil plants to modern ones use leaf surface area as a measure of precipitation, increased water use efficiency resulting from higher atmospheric CO2, rather than more rain, could actually explain the observed larger leaf sizes during the Miocene.

From Salon

So they did a gut check—they went hunting for excrement and vomit from the Polish Basin, a region of central Europe with an extensive record of fossil bones and paleoclimate data.

From Science Magazine

Carbon cycle models calibrated with paleoclimate datasets form the basis for scientists' understanding of the global marine carbon cycle and how it responds to natural perturbations.

From Science Daily