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.
Climatologists study both the nature of climates local, regional or global and the natural or human-induced factors that cause climates to change.
This is a valuable faculty for meteorologists and climatologists, as these properties can be significant.
Climatologists now understand that increased vegetation and urbanization can result in increased precipitation.
Air masses tend to lose moisture as they are forced up over mountain ranges, in what climatologists call a rainshadow effect.
He went on to become an eminent climatologist.
Map lichen is a lichen widely used by climatologists in determining the relative age of deposits, e.g. moraine systems, thus revealing evidence of glacial advances.
Those interviewed for the strand are those involved in the earth sciences: climatologists, meteorologists, geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, ecologists, glaciologists and oceanographers.
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.
