Climatic Optimum

climatic optimum

[klī′mad·ik ′äp·tə·məm] (climatology) The period in history (about 5000-2500 B.C.) during which temperatures were warmer than at present in nearly all parts of the world.

Climatic Optimum

 

the warmest time in every warm climatic phase of the Anthropogenic (Quaternary) period. The climatic optimum can be distinguished for all the interglacials as well as for the Holocene (postglacial climatic optimum).