paleoclimatic

adjective

pa·​leo·​cli·​mat·​ic ˌpā-lē-ō-klī-ˈma-tik 

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: of, relating to, or being a climate distinctive to a past geologic age

Examples of paleoclimatic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Since then, other scholarly papers relying on paleoclimatic data—most of it drawing on state-of-the-art technologies originally designed to understand climate change—have found innumerable instances when shifts in climate helped trigger social and political tumult and, often, collapses. —Jacques Leslie, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022

Jaramillo believes that these results contradict global paleoclimatic models that predict a collapse of Neotropical vegetation due to heat stress. —Pablo Correa, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022

That marks the highest amount measured since 1958 -- the start of the instrumental record -- and in at least the last million years, based on paleoclimatic records, the report found. —Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2022

Our colleagues, Earth systems scientists Neil Edwards and Phil Holden, used paleoclimatic data to tweak our model. —Pasquale Raia, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2019

Word History

Etymology

paleo- + climatic

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for paleoclimatic

• adiabatic
• aristocratic
• asymptomatic
• axiomatic
• diagrammatic
• diaphragmatic
• electrostatic
• endolymphatic
• epigrammatic
• homeostatic
• idiomatic
• magnetostatic