climate history
Ancient weather patterns
Climate history is the record of Earth's atmospheric and weather patterns over time, from decades to millions of years.
Scientists reconstruct climate history through ice cores, tree rings, sediment layers, and fossil evidence: Climate history shows that the planet has experienced multiple ice ages.
Understanding past climate helps contextualize current changes and predict future trends.
- ice coresCylindrical glacier samples
- ice ageEra of massive glaciation
- volcanic eruptionsExplosive magma discharge from peaks
- tree ringsAnnual wood layers
- HoloceneCurrent geological epoch
Younger Dryas · fossil record · deep time · Pleistocene · carbon dating · sediment layers · Carboniferous · Little Ice Age · Cretaceous · greenhouse gases · Quaternary · tectonic shifts · deforestation · ocean currents · industrialization · methane emissions · global warming · sea level rise
climate historyclimate projections
Predicted future atmospheric conditions
climate prediction · climate modeling · weather forecasting · climate simulation
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