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20 Mar 2025
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Reconstruction of Holocene and Last Interglacial vegetation dynamics and wildfire activity in southern Siberia
Jade Margerum, Julia Homann, Stuart Umbo, Gernot Nehrke, Thorsten Hoffmann, Anton Vaks, Aleksandr Kononov, Alexander Osintsev, Alena Giesche, Andrew Mason, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Gideon M. Henderson, Ola Kwiecien, and Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Clim. Past, 21, 661–677, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-661-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-661-2025, 2025
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14 Mar 2025
Palaeoclimate synthesis of the central Mediterranean area from pollen data
Léa d'Oliveira, Sébastien Joannin, Guillemette Ménot, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Lucas Dugerdil, Marion Blache, Mary Robles, Assunta Florenzano, Alessia Masi, Anna Maria Mercuri, Laura Sadori, Marie Balasse, and Odile Peyron
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1106,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1106, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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13 Mar 2025
Late Pleistocene temperature patterns in the Western Palearctic: insights from rodent associations compared with General Circulation Models
Aurélien Royer, Julien Crétat, Rémi Laffont, Sara Gamboa, Belén Luna, Iris Menéndez, Benjamin Pohl, Sophie Montuire, and Manuel Hernandez Fernandez
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-815,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-815, 2025
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11 Mar 2025
Patterns of changing surface climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to present in transient model simulations
Elisa Ziegler, Nils Weitzel, Jean-Philippe Baudouin, Marie-Luise Kapsch, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Lauren Gregoire, Ruza Ivanovic, Paul J. Valdes, Christian Wirths, and Kira Rehfeld
Clim. Past, 21, 627–659, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-627-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-627-2025, 2025
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20 Mar 2025
Reconstruction of Holocene and Last Interglacial vegetation dynamics and wildfire activity in southern Siberia
Jade Margerum, Julia Homann, Stuart Umbo, Gernot Nehrke, Thorsten Hoffmann, Anton Vaks, Aleksandr Kononov, Alexander Osintsev, Alena Giesche, Andrew Mason, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Gideon M. Henderson, Ola Kwiecien, and Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Clim. Past, 21, 661–677, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-661-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-661-2025, 2025
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