climatology
Noun
Meaning
The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
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Climatology examines both the nature of micro (local) and macro (global) climates and the natural and anthropogenic influences on them.
Global scale meteorology pushes into the range of climatology.
But, in truth, the numbers -- what we might call pure climatology -- can tell us only so much.
General Survey of Climatology V12, 2001, Edited by Landsberg, Elsevier publishing Recorded temperature extremes at South Thule Island have ranged from convert to convert.
An earlier description of the device was given by Dmitry Aleksandrovich Lachinov in July 1895 in the 2nd edition of his course "Fundamentals of Meteorology and climatology" — the first in Russia.
The election follows closely on the heels of the election of Manola Brunet (Spain) and Barbara Tapia (Chile) as the first female President and Vice President of WMO’s Commission for Climatology.