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Co-editors-in-chief: Laurie Menviel, Irina Rogozhina, Denis-Didier Rousseau & Luke Skinner
eISSN: CP 1814-9332, CPD 1814-9359

Climate of the Past (CP) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of research articles, short communications, and review papers on the climate history of the Earth. CP covers all temporal scales of climate change and variability, from geological time through to multidecadal studies of the last century. Studies focusing mainly on present and future climate are not within scope.

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News

12 May 2025 Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz stepping down as CP editor

Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz stepped down as both co-editor-in-chief and regular editor due to new responsibilities at the Aaarhus University. Read more.

12 May 2025 Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz stepping down as CP editor

Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz stepped down as both co-editor-in-chief and regular editor due to new responsibilities at the Aaarhus University. Read more.

12 May 2025 Webinar for Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary

To mark its 20th anniversary, CP is launching a special webinar series celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The first webinar on "Past Abrupt Climate Changes and Tipping Points" will take place Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 16:00 CEST. Please read more.

12 May 2025 Webinar for Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary

To mark its 20th anniversary, CP is launching a special webinar series celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The first webinar on "Past Abrupt Climate Changes and Tipping Points" will take place Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 16:00 CEST. Please read more.

30 Apr 2025 Compilation of the EGU medallist papers in CP

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of CP, we are proud to offer our community a compilation of the EGU medallist papers published in our journal since 2005. We make this PDF available to the community to thank all of you, authors, reviewers, editors, and of course readers, for your strong support during this exciting and long journey.

30 Apr 2025 Compilation of the EGU medallist papers in CP

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of CP, we are proud to offer our community a compilation of the EGU medallist papers published in our journal since 2005. We make this PDF available to the community to thank all of you, authors, reviewers, editors, and of course readers, for your strong support during this exciting and long journey.

Recent papers

03 Jun 2025
| Highlight paper
Mean ocean temperature change and decomposition of the benthic δ18O record over the past 4.5 million years
Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun, Yair Rosenthal, Chenyu Zhu, Patrick J. Bartlein, Jonathan M. Gregory, Peter Köhler, Zhengyu Liu, and Daniel P. Schrag
Clim. Past, 21, 973–1000, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025, 2025
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
02 Jun 2025
Impact of deoxygenation and hydrological changes on the Black Sea nitrogen cycle during the Last Deglaciation and Holocene
Anna Cutmore, Nicole Bale, Rick Hennekam, Bingjie Yang, Darci Rush, Gert-Jan Reichart, Ellen C. Hopmans, and Stefan Schouten
Clim. Past, 21, 957–971, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-957-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-957-2025, 2025
Short summary
02 Jun 2025
Living on the edge: Response of rudist bivalves (Hippuritida) to hot and highly seasonal climate in the low-latitude Saiwan site, Oman
Niels J. de Winter, Najat al Fudhaili, Iris Arndt, Philippe Claeys, René Fraaije, Steven Goderis, John Jagt, Matthias López Correa, Axel Munnecke, Jarosław Stolarski, and Martin Ziegler
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2308,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2308, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Short summary
28 May 2025
Magnetic properties and geochemistry of loess–paleosol sequences at the Nowdeh section in northeastern Iran
Vahid Feizi, Ghasem Azizi, Maryam Mollashahi, and Habib Alimohammadian
Clim. Past, 21, 941–955, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-941-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-941-2025, 2025
Short summary
28 May 2025
A multimillennial Alpine ice core chronology synchronized with an accurately dated Arctic Pb record
Paolo Gabrielli, Theo M. Jenk, Michele Bertó, Giuliano Dreossi, Daniela Festi, Werner Kofler, Mai Winstrup, Klaus Oeggl, Margit Schwikowski, Barbara Stenni, and Carlo Barbante
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2174,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2174, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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Highlight articles

03 Jun 2025
Mean ocean temperature change and decomposition of the benthic δ18O record over the past 4.5 million years
Peter U. Clark, Jeremy D. Shakun, Yair Rosenthal, Chenyu Zhu, Patrick J. Bartlein, Jonathan M. Gregory, Peter Köhler, Zhengyu Liu, and Daniel P. Schrag
Clim. Past, 21, 973–1000, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025, 2025
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
11 Apr 2025
High-resolution Holocene record based on detailed tephrochronology from Torfdalsvatn, north Iceland, reveals natural and anthropogenic impacts on terrestrial and aquatic environments
David J. Harning, Christopher R. Florian, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Thor Thordarson, Gifford H. Miller, Yarrow Axford, and Sædís Ólafsdóttir
Clim. Past, 21, 795–815, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-795-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-795-2025, 2025
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
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
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
21 Jan 2025
East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability in the central Transantarctic Mountains since the mid Miocene
Gordon R. M. Bromley, Greg Balco, Margaret S. Jackson, Allie Balter-Kennedy, and Holly Thomas
Clim. Past, 21, 145–160, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-145-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-145-2025, 2025
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
16 Dec 2024
Surface buoyancy control of millennial-scale variations in the Atlantic meridional ocean circulation
Matteo Willeit, Andrey Ganopolski, Neil R. Edwards, and Stefan Rahmstorf
Clim. Past, 20, 2719–2739, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2719-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2719-2024, 2024
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief

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