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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.


Etymology

Origin of paleoclimate

First recorded in 1920–25; paleo- + climate

Example Sentences

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However, he warned against drawing too many conclusions from a single paleoclimate study, saying it “paints one little part of the picture.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2024

Corals are a commonly used natural archive for paleoclimate studies because of their measurable growth rates.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024

The paleoclimate record tells us we’re somewhere in between.

From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2023

The results were also at odds with a landmark study that eschewed global modeling results and instead relied on paleoclimate and observational records to identify Earth’s climate sensitivity.

From Science Magazine • May 4, 2022

When the researchers compared the data from their paleoclimate model with others to see if they overlapped, they found existing climate models had no sign of this early Atlantification.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2021

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