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Co-editors-in-chief: Laurie Menviel, Irina Rogozhina, Denis-Didier Rousseau, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz & 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

16 Oct 2024 New CP co-editor-in-chief: Luke Skinner

We warmly welcome Luke Skinner as a new co-editor-in-chief of Climate of the Past. Luke Skinner is a professor of climate change and Earth–ocean–atmosphere systems at the University of Cambridge, UK. Luke's research focuses on the role of ocean circulation in driving past climate change, including its impact on the hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. Luke has been an editor of Climate of the Past since 2010.

16 Oct 2024 New CP co-editor-in-chief: Luke Skinner

We warmly welcome Luke Skinner as a new co-editor-in-chief of Climate of the Past. Luke Skinner is a professor of climate change and Earth–ocean–atmosphere systems at the University of Cambridge, UK. Luke's research focuses on the role of ocean circulation in driving past climate change, including its impact on the hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. Luke has been an editor of Climate of the Past since 2010.

13 Sep 2024 EGU webinar: how to write a research paper

You have worked hard to get your results, analyse the data, and draw conclusions from your research topic. Now it is time to write up! Please find information on EGU's webinar "How to write a research paper" here.

13 Sep 2024 EGU webinar: how to write a research paper

You have worked hard to get your results, analyse the data, and draw conclusions from your research topic. Now it is time to write up! Please find information on EGU's webinar "How to write a research paper" here.

12 Sep 2024 CP now at ResearchGate

Copernicus is pleased to announce a new collaboration with ResearchGate in the framework of ResearchGate's Journal Home programme. Please read Copernicus' official announcement and have a look at CP's profile page for more details.

12 Sep 2024 CP now at ResearchGate

Copernicus is pleased to announce a new collaboration with ResearchGate in the framework of ResearchGate's Journal Home programme. Please read Copernicus' official announcement and have a look at CP's profile page for more details.

Recent papers

19 Nov 2024
Opinion: Distribute paleoscience information across the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports
Darrell Kaufman and Valérie Masson-Delmotte
Clim. Past, 20, 2587–2594, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2587-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2587-2024, 2024
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
19 Nov 2024
Estimating breakpoints between climate states in the Cenozoic Era
Mikkel Bennedsen, Eric Hillebrand, Siem Jan Koopman, and Kathrine By Larsen
External preprint server, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.08336,https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.08336, 2024
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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18 Nov 2024
Diagnosing the controls on desert dust emissions through the Phanerozoic
Yixuan Xie, Daniel J. Lunt, and Paul J. Valdes
Clim. Past, 20, 2561–2585, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2561-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2561-2024, 2024
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18 Nov 2024
Non-biting midges (Chironomidae) as a proxy for summer temperatures during the post-Holsteinian (MIS 11b) – a central European perspective
Tomasz Polkowski, Agnieszka Gruszczyńska, Bartosz Kotrys, Artur Górecki, Anna Hrynowiecka, Marcin Żarski, Mirosław Błaszkiewicz, Jerzy Nitychoruk, Monika Czajkowska, Stefan Lauterbach, and Michał Słowiński
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3129,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3129, 2024
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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15 Nov 2024
Decoupling of δ18O from surface temperature in Antarctica in an ensemble of historical simulations
Sentia Goursaud Oger, Louise C. Sime, and Max Holloway
Clim. Past, 20, 2539–2560, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2539-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2539-2024, 2024
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Highlight articles

11 Oct 2024
The spatio-temporal evolution of the Chongzhen drought (1627–1644) in China and its impact on famine
Siying Chen, Yun Su, Xudong Chen, and Liang Emlyn Yang
Clim. Past, 20, 2287–2307, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2287-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2287-2024, 2024
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
12 Sep 2024
Can we reliably reconstruct the mid-Pliocene Warm Period with sparse data and uncertain models?
James D. Annan, Julia C. Hargreaves, Thorsten Mauritsen, Erin McClymont, and Sze Ling Ho
Clim. Past, 20, 1989–1999, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1989-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1989-2024, 2024
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
28 Aug 2024
Late Quaternary glacial maxima in southern Patagonia: insights from the Lago Argentino glacier lobe
Matias Romero, Shanti B. Penprase, Maximillian S. Van Wyk de Vries, Andrew D. Wickert, Andrew G. Jones, Shaun A. Marcott, Jorge A. Strelin, Mateo A. Martini, Tammy M. Rittenour, Guido Brignone, Mark D. Shapley, Emi Ito, Kelly R. MacGregor, and Marc W. Caffee
Clim. Past, 20, 1861–1883, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1861-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1861-2024, 2024
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
28 Jun 2024
Continuous synchronization of the Greenland ice-core and U–Th timescales using probabilistic inversion
Francesco Muschitiello and Marco Antonio Aquino-Lopez
Clim. Past, 20, 1415–1435, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1415-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1415-2024, 2024
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27 Jun 2024
600 years of wine must quality and April to August temperatures in western Europe 1420–2019
Christian Pfister, Stefan Brönnimann, Andres Altwegg, Rudolf Brázdil, Laurent Litzenburger, Daniele Lorusso, and Thomas Pliemon
Clim. Past, 20, 1387–1399, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1387-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1387-2024, 2024
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