Co-editors-in-chief: Laurie Menviel, Irina Rogozhina, Denis-Didier Rousseau, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz & Luke Skinner
eISSN: CP 1814-9332, CPD 1814-9359
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19 Dec 2024
ResearchGate and institutional agreements
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19 Dec 2024
ResearchGate and institutional agreements
We are pleased to announce that scientists associated with our 38 library partners representing 350 universities and research centres as well as 300 institutions from Research4Life countries will be informed directly about APC coverage when browsing our articles on ResearchGate. Read more.
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.
21 Jan 2025
Reconstruction of drought and long-rain chronologies since the 17th century in central Japan using intra-annual tree-ring oxygen isotope ratios and documentary records
Hiroto Iizuka, Kenjiro Sho, Zhen Li, Masaki Sano, Yoshikazu Kato, and Takeshi Nakatsuka
Clim. Past, 21, 133–144, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-133-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-133-2025, 2025
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16 Jan 2025
A novel conceptual model for Dansgaard–Oeschger event dynamics based on ice-core data
Jonathan Ortved Melcher, Sune Halkjær, Peter Ditlevsen, Peter L. Langen, Guido Vettoretti, and Sune Olander Rasmussen
Clim. Past, 21, 115–132, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-115-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-115-2025, 2025
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14 Jan 2025
Southern Ocean control on atmospheric CO2 changes across late Pliocene Marine Isotope Stage M2
Suning Hou, Leonie Toebrock, Mart van der Linden, Fleur Rothstegge, Martin Ziegler, Lucas J. Lourens, and Peter K. Bijl
Clim. Past, 21, 79–93, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-79-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-79-2025, 2025
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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
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