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How do climatologists collect data?
Climatologists collect data on the weather using a variety of methods, including satellites, radar, sensors, and even weather balloons. They track temperature, precipitation, inches of snow pack, water levels in lakes and streams, and air pressure.
What are Paleoclimatologists?
Paleoclimatology is the study of ancient climates, prior to the widespread availability of instrumental records. Scientists can use those environmental recorders to estimate past conditions, extending our understanding of climate back hundreds to millions of years.
How does paleoclimatology work?
Paleoclimatology is the study of previous climates that have existed during Earth’s different geologic ages. Paleoclimatologists try to identify the causes of climate changes that have happened in the past in order to better understand our present and future climate.
What is paleoclimate evidence?
What is paleoclimatology? Paleoclimate research uses geologic and biologic evidence (climate proxies) preserved in sediments, rocks, tree rings, corals, ice sheets and other climate archives to reconstruct past climate in terrestrial and aquatic environments around the world.
How does a scientist collect data?
Scientists can gather their data by observing the natural world, performing an experiment in a laboratory, or by running a model. Scientists decide what strategy to use, often combining strategies. Then they plan a procedure and gather their data.
What kinds of data is analyzed by Paleoclimatologists?
Paleoclimatologists gather proxy data from natural recorders of climate variability such as tree rings, ice cores, fossil pollen, ocean sediments, corals and historical data.
Where do Paleoclimatologists work?
These individuals work for Federal agencies relating to climate research including the Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and as direct government advisors. They may also represent the USA at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
How do you measure paleoclimate?
Past climate can be reconstructed using a combination of different types of proxy records. These records can then be integrated with observations of Earth’s modern climate and placed into a computer model to infer past as well as predict future climate.
What evidence is there for paleoclimate in the Pangaea?
The Pangean supercontinent existed for more than 100 million years and had a profound influence on Earth’s climate and atmospheric circulation system. Proxy paleowind data from aeolian (wind-blown) deposits in the rock record and climate models indicate a monsoonal circulation system through the existence of Pangea.