climatologist
noun/klaɪməˈtɒlədʒɪst/
Etymology From climatology + -ist.
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:
- Derived terms
- bioclimatologist, dendroclimatologist, hydroclimatologist, microclimatologist, paleoclimatologist
- Related terms
- climatist