Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

climate sensitivity

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English

Syllables: cli-mate sen-si-tiv-i-ty
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The sensitivity of the Earth's climate to additions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere: the degree of effect that such additions have; a numerical value as a metric thereof; any of various educated estimates for the real (unknown) value.

Example Sentences

"equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)"
"Scientists have been modeling and estimating the climate sensitivity for decades, and they try to group their estimates into best-case, worst-case, and likeliest-case categories."
"To speak of the [one true real] climate sensitivity, we must speak of several plausible climate sensitivities and of which ones we consider likeliest."

Inflected Forms

climate sensitivities (plural)

Questions

What does climate sensitivity mean?: The sensitivity of the Earth's climate to additions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere: the degree of effect that such additions have; a numerical value as a metric thereof; any of various educated estimates for the real (unknown) value.

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