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A climatologist is a scientist who does : the scientific study of climate — how weather patterns work over years and centuries, why they change, and what that means for the earth. They read temperature records, ice, oceans, and computer models. The word is plus -ist, and that -ist names the person; the study itself is , not this word. A climatologist is also not the person on television who tells you whether to take an umbrella tomorrow. That shorter-term job sits closer to . You will meet climatologist in news about the planet and in academic writing.
氣候學家（研究的那門學問叫氣候學 climatology）
組成From climatology + -ist: the -ist names the person who does the study.
同家族的字
- climatologythe study; this word adds -ist to name the person who does it
- climatewhat they study: the usual weather of a place over a long time
- climaticthe adjective meaning “about climate”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
climatologistnoun/klaɪməˈtɒlədʒɪst/
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A person who studies, professes or practices climatology.
- 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.
- “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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。