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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

29 Nov 2024 Changes to article processing charges

We are pleased to announce a change in the handling of article processing charges. Please find all information on our APC page as well as in the news item from EGU.

29 Nov 2024 Changes to article processing charges

We are pleased to announce a change in the handling of article processing charges. Please find all information on our APC page as well as in the news item from EGU.

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.

Recent papers

12 Dec 2024
Documents, reanalysis, and global circulation models: a new method for reconstructing historical climate focusing on present-day inland Tanzania, 1856–1890
Philip Gooding, Melissa J. Lazenby, Michael R. Frogley, Cecile Dai, and Wenqi Su
Clim. Past, 20, 2701–2718, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2701-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2701-2024, 2024
Short summary
12 Dec 2024
Variations in the biological pump throughout the Miocene: evidence from organic carbon burial in Pacific Ocean sediments
Mitchell Lyle and Annette Olivarez Lyle
Clim. Past, 20, 2685–2700, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2685-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2685-2024, 2024
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09 Dec 2024
Geochronological reconstruction of the glacial evolution in the Ésera valley (Central Pyrenees) during the last deglaciation
Ixeia Vidaller, Toshiyuki Fujioka, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno, Ana Moreno, and the ASTER Team
Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2024-75,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2024-75, 2024
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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09 Dec 2024
Using reduced-complexity volcanic aerosol and climate models to produce large ensemble simulations of Holocene temperature
Magali Verkerk, Thomas J. Aubry, Christopher Smith, Peter O. Hopcroft, Michael Sigl, Jessica E. Tierney, Kevin Anchukaitis, Matthew Osman, Anja Schmidt, and Matthew Toohey
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3635,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3635, 2024
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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03 Dec 2024
A global Data Assimilation of Moisture Patterns from 21 000–0 BP (DAMP-21ka) using lake level proxy records
Christopher L. Hancock, Michael P. Erb, Nicholas P. McKay, Sylvia G. Dee, and Ruza F. Ivanovic
Clim. Past, 20, 2663–2684, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2663-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2663-2024, 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
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
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
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief

Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.