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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
climatic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
change
▪ These raised marine deposits point to possible consequences of a global rise in sea level resulting from climatic change.
▪ Migrants from equatorial latitudes to countries with reduced light exposure are seriously affected by these climatic changes.
▪ A combination of rejuvenation and climatic change may cause complex terrace forms to be developed.
▪ The seminar is intended to educate them on climatic change and global warming.
▪ It is too early to blame climatic changes for these effects.
▪ The stability of the rural economy may, inpart be dependent on the effects of climatic change.
▪ International trading patterns, debasement and changing money supply, demographic and climatic change may all influence the behaviour of prices.
▪ A further complication in the interpretation of regolith thickness is climatic change.
geomorphology
▪ In the light of this, the way forward in climatic geomorphology, already recognized in studies of fluvial catchments, becomes evident.
▪ The concentration on arid and glacial regions was probably also partly instrumental in the development of climatic geomorphology.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Climatic changes are caused by the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
▪ The types of rice grown in a country depend on climatic conditions.
▪ toxic gases that threaten the earth's climatic balance
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everything - the resources, the distances, the climatic conditions, the costs - is extreme.
▪ In Sri Lanka it grows in many regions of differing climatic conditions.
▪ It attributed this to the prevailing civil war and climatic conditions as well as to deficiencies in state apparatus.
▪ The seminar is intended to educate them on climatic change and global warming.
▪ The stability of the rural economy may, inpart be dependent on the effects of climatic change.
▪ Therefore, in the true deserts one is thrown back more strongly on to past climatic conditions to explain obviously water-formed features.
▪ These raised marine deposits point to possible consequences of a global rise in sea level resulting from climatic change.
▪ They lack natural resources or experience climatic extremes which hinder economic activity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Climatic

Climatic \Cli*mat"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
climatic

1828, from climate + -ic. There is a 1650 citation for climatical in OED. Related: Climatically.

Wiktionary
climatic

a. Of, relating to(,) or influenced by climate.

WordNet
climatic

adj. of or relating to a climate; "climatic changes" [syn: climatical]

Usage examples of "climatic".

Changes had taken place in Argentil, particularly an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor, but those could be the result of natural long-term climatic changes.

Europe and north America were heavily glaciated in what we think of as the last Ice Age, it was not because of some mysterious slow-acting climatic factor, but rather because those areas of land were then situated much closer to the North Pole than they are today.

And from that day to this, there has never again been a blotch of climatic smegma on the horizon, the Earth has settled down knowing the human race has learned its lesson and would never again take a ka-ka in its own nest, and that is why today the National Emphysema Society declared itself out of business.

It was then that the Wisconsin glaciers, all at once, went into their ferocious meltdown, forcing a 350-foot rise in global sea levels amid scenes of unprecedented climatic and geological turmoil.

Furthermore, owing to the peripatetic nature of the continent of Capricorn there were no easily ascertainable seasons of climatic inclemency.

The cool phase of the climatic shift, far from enough to reinitiate the Northern Freeze, did not prevent the sky being bright over this region for almost half the year, and when the sun was up its rays could be focused.

American megafaunal extinctions occurred during a time of rapid climatic change as seen in fossil pollen and small animal records.

There may have been a climatic change that killed off most and drove the few remaining into a subterranean and suboceanic existence.

Now, it has long been noticed that there is something in the influences, climatic or other, here prevailing, which predisposes to morbid religious excitement.

The great mortality among the Federal prisoners confined in the military prison at Andersonville was not referable to climatic causes, or to the nature of the soil and waters.

A cosmic cloud obscuring the sun caused the climatic change," Pendelman corrected firmly.

But with the climatic pump of the dryings, and in the lengthening rain shadow cast by the more remote Himalayas, the Sahara was becoming increasingly arid.

Naturally the climatic conditions on this celestial body were probably extremely bad.

In response to Blaize's questions he explained, without much interest, that the erratic climatic pattern of Angalia produced a constantly moving band of thundershowers in the mountains which surrounded this central basin.

Geswixt, like Honydrop and every other thranx hive built in a less than ideal climatic zone, would of course be located entirely underground.