palaeoklimatologinen
palaeoklimatologinen is a Finnish word meaning “paleoclimatological,” an adjective that refers to the scientific study of past climates. The discipline, often shortened to palaeoclimatology, seeks to reconstruct Earth’s climatic conditions over geological time scales ranging from thousands to millions of years. Researchers rely on natural archives such as ice cores, tree rings, sediment layers, corals, loess deposits, and speleothems to extract proxy records. These proxies provide indirect evidence of temperature, precipitation, atmospheric composition, and other environmental parameters before the advent of modern instrumentation.
Through statistical analysis and climate modeling, paleoclimatologists identify patterns of variability, such as glacial and interglacial
Understanding past climate variability is essential for contextualizing current anthropogenic climate change. By distinguishing natural oscillations