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Originally Posted by aerohead
Over the course of my reading I've run across mention of some of the disciplines involved in climatology,that I thought I'd share:
*aerospace engineering
*analytical chemistry
*analytical instrument design
*anthropology
*applied mathematics
*archeology
*astronomy
*atmospheric chemistry
*atmospheric physics
*biological oceanography
*cartography
*chaos theory
*computer programming
*dendrochronology
*economics
*environmental geology
*evolutionary biology
*fluid mechanics
*geochemistry
*geocryology
*geology
*geophysics
*glaciology
*hydrological engineering
*infrared physics
*limnology
*marine biology
*mathematical physics
*mathematics
*meteorology
*mountaineering
*non-linear fluid dynamics
*orbital mechanics
*paleoclimatology
*physical chemistry
*physical oceanography
*physics
*radiation balance specialists
*radiometry
*spectroscopy
*statigraphy
*statistics
*thermodynamics
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Another piece is that climate science is almost 200 years old.
And we are getting new technology - we now can measure how long rocks have been exposed; like those that are left behind by glaciers. So, we can measure when that glacier melted.