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

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