How to Use climatology in a Sentence

climatology

noun
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  • The graphic above shows the thunderstorm climatology for the United States.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • From this perspective, the season is off to an early start compared to the climatology over the most recent 30-year period.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The analysis was based on climatology, or what California’s weather was like in the past.
    — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Local climatology and weather facts are also covered in addition to a Q&A session at the end.
    — chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • In October, the climatology of storms favors a northward turn—i.e.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2018
  • The Twin Cities set four daily record-high temperatures in November and had five days when the mercury surpassed 70 degrees, the climatology office said.
    — Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Fifty years ago this month, the federal government tried to cancel state climatology.
    — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Others include climatology, levels of lakes and rivers, and soil moisture.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 11 June 2023
  • Collar said that, because of Wisconsin’s unique climatology, pneumonia fronts are more common in the Badger State than in most others.
    — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2023
  • But this season has flouted climatology, with many more storms than average.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Springtime variability prevails late this week into the weekend, but most days see temperatures running to the cooler side of climatology yet again, keeping April on that cool pace not seen since 2007.
    — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • For the first time ever, NOAA will include 15-year normals to better represent a climatology period closer to today.
    — Monica Garrett, CNN, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Otto Klemm, a professor of climatology at the University of Münster in Germany, is more certain.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • On it: from Columbia, masters degrees in oceanography and climatology followed by a Ph.
    — Author: Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2016
  • This is a European Space Agency satellite that observes the Earth to improve our understanding of oceanography and climatology.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2012
  • Carbin advises looking at climatology when forecasting the tropics more than seven days out.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Hawkins and McCarthy got to know each other around 2015, when Hawkins started working on historical climate data as part of his larger climatology research program.
    — Grant Currin, Wired, 24 June 2021
  • And forecasters are honing in on the development potential in the open Atlantic during this time and into September, a forecast that lines up with typical climatology.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Temperatures are expected to be warmer than typical for this time of year, which is the coldest, from a climatology perspective, according to the National Weather Service.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Funk wound up studying geography at UCSB in a group that focused on statistical climatology.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2020
  • California is geographically complex, as the topography and climatology vary widely from one end of the state to the other.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 27 Feb. 2022
  • An inadvertent early test of how this could work took place last month, when many of Europe’s attribution scientists gathered at a statistical-climatology meeting in Toulouse, just as the June heatwave hit.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • Other forms of artificial intelligence try to hard-code information about the world: the chess strategies of grandmasters, the principles of climatology.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But, DIA’s 25-mile distance from downtown Denver has led to frequent complaints about the accuracy of its weather climatology, or at least in reference to what the majority of the area’s population experiences.
    — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The Old Farmer's Almanac's methodology, Perreault explained, is based on the same formula devised by the annual book's founder in the late 1700s — meteorology, climatology and solar science.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Nonetheless, the tool is used across disciplines like climatology and art history, and tree ring chronologies are even used to calibrate radiocarbon dating measurements.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 July 2019
  • Knoop is studying atmospheric science while Rhodes is getting her masters in geography with a focus on climatology.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • They often are highly coordinated, using the same talking points, themes and language, said Michael Mann, a veteran climatology researcher at Pennsylvania State.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2019
  • But in the United States, which is still bickering about climatology, evolution and even basic virology, fanatics panic and lash out violently.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Zoning, planning and mitigation efforts need to be backed with adequate IT enablement and transformative research in the field of climatology for maximum effectiveness.
    — Suman Biswas, Forbes, 26 May 2022

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