climatologist

English

Etymology

From climatology +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst

Noun

climatologist (plural climatologists)

1. A person who studies, professes or practices climatology.
   • 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:

     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.

   • 2023 December 14, Damian Carrington, quoting Michael E. Mann, “Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “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.

Derived terms

• bioclimatologist
• dendroclimatologist
• hydroclimatologist
• microclimatologist
• paleoclimatologist

 

Related terms

• climatist

 

Translations

scholar of climatology

• Bulgarian: климатолог m (klimatolog)
• Catalan: climatòleg m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣候學家／气候学家 (zh) (qìhòuxuéjiā)

• Czech: klimatolog m
• Dutch: klimatoloog (nl) m, klimatologe f
• Finnish: klimatologi
• French: climatologue (fr), climatologiste (fr)
• German: Klimatologe m, Klimatologin f, Klimaforscher (de) m, Klimaforscherin (de) f
• Hungarian: éghajlatkutató, klímakutató, klimatológus (hu)
• Irish: clíomeolaí m
• Italian: climatologa (it) f, climatologo (it) m
• Japanese: 気候学者 (ja) (きこうがくしゃ, kikōgakusha)
• Korean: 기후학자 (gihuhakja)
• Latin: climatologista f, climatologistus m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klimatolog m

  Nynorsk: klimatolog m

• Polish: klimatolog (pl) m
• Portuguese: climatologista (pt) m or f, climatólogo m
• Romanian: climatolog (ro) m, climatologă (ro) f
• Russian: климато́лог (ru) m (klimatólog)
• Spanish: climatólogo m
• Swedish: klimatolog (sv) c
• Turkish: klimatolog (tr)