0 a scientist who studies climate (= general or long-term weather conditions):
Climatologists work with computer models, constantly adding new information to study the long-term changes in the atmosphere.
By editing and publishing the book himself he has been able to retain a trickle of asides and witticisms that should have kept even our sceptical climatologist amused.
And if the climatologists are right, then we are falling well short of the requirements which have to be met.
Yet there are many climatologists who take a different view.
Climatologists expect the national rainfall average to increase by something like 20%, which can fall in extreme torrential downpours when you get a month's rain within a day.
It is based on the fact that statements being made by climatologists are, to a large degree, hypothetical, while their forecasts are unreliable and often have to be revised.
But there are climatologists who will tell you that the temperate weather we have enjoyed in the first half of this century has been abnormal—a wobble in a cycle.
At the end of the day, whether the climatologists are right or not is a scientific issue, and not something that can be decided in a parliament.
Many modes of variability are used by climatologists as indices to represent the general climatic state of a region affected by a given climate pattern.
