paleoclimatic
adjEtymology From paleo- + climatic.
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Of or pertaining to the climate of a region in the past
- Detecting the enhanced greenhouse effect has a strong parallel in trying to interpret the paleoclimatic record.1995, Climate Research Committee, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-century Time Scales, →ISBN, page 172:
- Derived terms
- paleoclimatically
- Related terms
- paleoclimate, paleoclimatology