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climatologist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /klaɪməˈtɒlədʒɪst/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English climatology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English climatologist From climatology + -ist.

Meanings

1. A person who studies, professes or practices climatology.
   • To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres. 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
   • “The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. 2023 December 14, Damian Carrington, quoting Michael E. Mann, “Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

Deriveds

dendroclimatologist · bioclimatologist · hydroclimatologist · microclimatologist · paleoclimatologist

Relateds

climatist

Translations (40)

hi जलवायु विज्ञानी (scholar of climatology) · cmn 氣候學家 /气候学家 (scholar of climatology) · cs klimatolog (scholar of climatology) · ca climatòloga (scholar of climatology) · de Klimaforscherin (scholar of climatology) · tr klimatolog (scholar of climatology) · ga clíomeolaí (scholar of climatology) · de Klimatologe (scholar of climatology) · fa اقلیمشناس (scholar of climatology) · ro climatologă (scholar of climatology) · de Klimaforscher (scholar of climatology) · pt climatólogo (scholar of climatology) · pl klimatolog (scholar of climatology) · ko 기후학자 (scholar of climatology) · de Klimatologin (scholar of climatology) · el κλιματολόγος (scholar of climatology) · la climatologistus (scholar of climatology) · hu éghajlatkutató (scholar of climatology) · la climatologista (scholar of climatology) · nl klimatoloog (scholar of climatology) · fr climatologue (scholar of climatology) · fa آبوهواشناس (scholar of climatology) · it climatologa (scholar of climatology) · fr climatologiste (scholar of climatology) · es climatólogo (scholar of climatology) · pt climatologista (scholar of climatology) · ro climatolog (scholar of climatology) · sv klimatolog (scholar of climatology) · ja 気候学者 (scholar of climatology) · hu klímakutató (scholar of climatology) · nn klimatolog (scholar of climatology) · hu klimatológus (scholar of climatology) · ru климато́лог (scholar of climatology) · fi klimatologi (scholar of climatology) · it climatologo (scholar of climatology) · az iqlimşünas (scholar of climatology) · nl klimatologe (scholar of climatology) · bg климатолог (scholar of climatology) · ca climatòleg (scholar of climatology) · nb klimatolog (scholar of climatology)