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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

13 Jun 2025
Closing the Plio-Pleistocene 13C cycle in the 405 kyr periodicity by isotopic signatures of geological sources
Peter Köhler
Clim. Past, 21, 1043–1060, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1043-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1043-2025, 2025
Short summary
13 Jun 2025
Controls of aeolian and fluvial sediment influx to the northern Red Sea over the last 220 000 years
Werner Ehrmann, Paul A. Wilson, Helge W. Arz, and Gerhard Schmiedl
Clim. Past, 21, 1025–1041, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1025-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1025-2025, 2025
Short summary
13 Jun 2025
Understanding the Mid-Pleistocene transition with a simple physical model
Sergio Pérez-Montero, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Jan Swierczek-Jereczek, Daniel Moreno-Parada, Alexander Robinson, and Marisa Montoya
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2467,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2467, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Short summary
11 Jun 2025
Global biome changes over the last 21 000 years inferred from model–data comparisons
Chenzhi Li, Anne Dallmeyer, Jian Ni, Manuel Chevalier, Matteo Willeit, Andrei A. Andreev, Xianyong Cao, Laura Schild, Birgit Heim, Mareike Wieczorek, and Ulrike Herzschuh
Clim. Past, 21, 1001–1024, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1001-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1001-2025, 2025
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11 Jun 2025
Divergent estimates of Miocene to Pleistocene upper ocean temperatures in the South Atlantic Ocean from alkenone and coccolith clumped isotope proxies
Heather Stoll, Clara Bolton, Madalina Jaggi, Alfredo Martinez-Garcia, and Stefano Bernasconi
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2449,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2449, 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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