[f. Gr. κλιματ- stem of κλίμα (see CLIMATE, CLIME) + -λογία discourse: see -LOGY.] That branch of physical science which deals with climate, and investigates climatic conditions. (Sometimes used for the conditions themselves as a subject of observation.)
1843. Year-bk. Facts, 247. On Botanical Climatology.
1860. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, ix. § 437. In the system of oceanic climatology, circulation, and stability.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 71. A new science, medical geography, has sprung from climatology.
