What's the difference between climatologist and meteorologist?
Climatologist
Definition:
(n.) One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jones wrote to Nasa climatologist Gavin Schmidt in August 2008 , "All our FoI officers have been in discussions and are now using the same exceptions not to respond - advice they got from the Information Commissioner."
(2) As the Ohio State University climatologist Lonnie G Thompson, a world-renowned specialist on glacier melt, explained in 2010 , “Climatologists, like other scientists, tend to be a stolid group.
(3) Glaciologists, seismologists and climatologists from around the world are landing on the ice sheet in helicopters, taking ice-breakers up its inaccessible coastline and measuring glaciers in a race against time to discover why the ice in Greenland is vanishing so much faster than expected.
(4) The problem facing oceanographers and climatologists is the nature of Greenland’s intricately carved coast, which features long fjords that push, like fingers, deep into the island’s interior.
(5) The climatologist at the centre of the leaked emails row said today that he "absolutely" stands by his research and that any suggestion that the emails provide evidence of a conspiracy to manipulate or hide data that do not support the theory of man-made climate change was "complete rubbish".
(6) McIntyre clearly doubted the statistical techniques being employed by the climatologists, and felt that, as a trained mathematician, he could do better despite his ignorance of climate science.
(7) Top climatologists, such as James Hansen, now warn atmospheric CO2 must be reduced to 350 ppm, if global catastrophe is to be averted.
(8) In his first full interview since last week's theft , which saw hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between some of the leading climatologists over the past 13 years stolen from the university's servers, Jones defended himself against accusations by climate sceptics that the emails provide evidence of collusion by climatologists to fix data.
(9) Climate generally speaking, if we are talking about atmospheric climate conditions the rule of thumb that climatologists use is a 30-year mean."
(10) Patrick Michaels, the climatologist and heavyweight polemicist for the rightwing Cato Institute published a long op-ed piece in the DC Examiner , slamming Mann for an email quote about keeping sceptics' papers out of the IPCC report " even if we have to redefine what the peer-reviewed literature is ".
(11) The report has around 130 lead authors, including meteorologists and climatologists from across the world.
(12) And climatologists confront particular pressures that encourage tribal thinking.
(13) Anyone that’s been feeling really uncomfortable can feel 100% justified in their complaints,” Bureau of Meteorology climatologist Agata Imielska said.
(14) Climatologists Thomas Mote, at the University of Georgia, and Marco Tedesco, of the City University of New York, also confirmed the melt recorded by the satellites.
(15) The alleged emails illustrate the persistent pressure some climatologists have been under from sceptics in recent years.
(16) Climatologist Michael Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, described Clinton’s plan as “very good overall” while singling out her emphasis on building upon the successes of the Obama administration – namely the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, known as the clean power plan.
(17) This provoked the eminent climatologist James Hansen, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, to tell the Guardian: "If this is the best they can do, then their 'planet in peril' rhetoric is probably just that - empty rhetoric."
(18) There’s a phenomenal team of soil scientists, climatologists, and crop modelers that work on it but they’re not software platform management people and they’re not customer service people and it really just taxed them significantly,” says Greg Levow, co-founder of the tech startup Agronomic Technology Corporation (ATC).
(19) Obama also used his weekend radio address to announce that respected climatologist Jane Lubchenco is to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(20) The phenomenon threatens to set off runaway heating of the planet, say climatologists.
Meteorologist
Definition:
(n.) A person skilled in meteorology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why, for example, would a meteorologist fail to correctly predict where a hurricane was going to make landfall, or why might a doctor fail to figure out what was going on inside my son and fix it?
(2) Your even more underwhelming UK holiday photos Read more Greg Dewhurst, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said Britain would start to feel the burn on Monday, with temperatures peaking on Wednesday in the high 20s and almost breaking 30C in some places.
(3) But, not for the first time, a BBC meteorologist had got the forecast wrong.
(4) One meteorologist, Ryan Maue of Weather Bell, called the system of cold air approaching the midwest a “polar vortex”.
(5) The hot, dry spring of 2011 has also been linked to melting sea ice by meteorologists .
(6) It was forecast to dump icy drizzle and eventually freezing rain through the New York City area and into Boston, National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Heavener said.
(7) The lead author of the report, Martin Hoerling, a research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the Associated Press he had tried to create computer simulations of the the drought, factoring in climate change conditions.
(8) Martin Babakhan, a meteorologist and conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle, told me earlier that he believed the objects would likely have moved “around 200 or 300 kilometres” from the location first identified in the 16 March satellite images: I was looking at that ocean all week and that particular region has a very very strong current and the weather is variable very quickly.
(9) "There is a two-thirds probability that this year will be better, but there is also a one-third probability that it will not be," said Ewen McCallum, chief meteorologist at the Met Office.
(10) Martin Babakhan, a meteorologist and lecturer at Australia’s University of Newcastle, said that since the satellite images were taken the objects found could have moved “about 200 or 300 kilometres from the original location” in a westerly direction, closer to Australia.
(11) Meteorologists believe the floods are caused by a natural weather cycle known as La Niña and the Southern Oscillation mechanism, which has been linked to recent flooding in Australia and the Philippines.
(12) Krista Mitchell, a Met Office meteorologist, said: "Things are certainly heating up today and again tomorrow.
(13) But the thickest haze recorded by the city state in over 30 years is expected to return periodically until steady rains come in September, said meteorologists.
(14) A new temperature record of 38C was set in the capital last Thursday and meteorologists expect it will be surpassed this week as the heatwave continues.
(15) Last summer, leading meteorologists warned that the country can expect longer, more intense and more frequent weather events in the future.
(16) There’s still a distinct possibility that his could make landfall somewhere in the US,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and hurricane center spokesman.
(17) Flooding is going to be a major issue for the Cape and New England,” said Bernadette Woods Placky, a meteorologist at Climate Central.
(18) The bitter blast will lead to a swath of sub-zero temperatures, with highs in the single digits and wind chills of -20F or colder, said Paul Collar, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
(19) The jovial NBC Today Show anchor is one of eight local and national meteorologists the Obama administration invited to the White House for one-on-one interviews with the president.
(20) In Cox’s Bazar, meteorologists confirmed the fishermen’s observations.