paleoklima
Paleoklima, or paleoclimatology, is the scientific study of Earth's past climates. It seeks to reconstruct historical patterns of temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric composition over timescales ranging from thousands to hundreds of millions of years, and to understand the processes that drove climate change in the geological record.
Because direct measurements are available only for recent centuries, researchers rely on proxy data gathered from
Paleoklima informs understanding of natural climate variability, orbital forcing, greenhouse gas cycles, and feedback mechanisms. It
Limitations include uneven geographic coverage, temporal resolution, and biases in proxies. Age models, calibration uncertainties, and