paleoclimatic
English
Alternative forms
- palaeoclimatic
Etymology
paleo- + climatic
Adjective
paleoclimatic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the climate of a region in the past
- 1995, Climate Research Committee, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-century Time Scales, →ISBN, page 172:
- Detecting the enhanced greenhouse effect has a strong parallel in trying to interpret the paleoclimatic record.
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Derived terms
- paleoclimatically
Related terms
- paleoclimate
- paleoclimatology