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May 20, 2021 at 10:00 pm by Sean Crommelin
As interest in climate science has exploded with the looming threat of climate change, scientists around the world have sought to better understand how precipitation patterns may change in the future or have changed in the past due to corresponding changes in temperature.Â
RÃo Secreto, a cave system near Playa del Carmen in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
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They do this by using both complex mathematical climate modeling and proxies found throughout Earth â like ice cores â to reconstruct paleoclimates found in Earthâs past.
âI think it is very valuable, societally, to understand climate change, climate variability and what drives this variability. Paleoclimate studies contribute significantly to this understanding,â Syee Weldeab, a professor in the Earth Science department at UC Santa Barbara who studies paleoclimate, said.