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Co-editors-in-chief: Laurie Menviel, Irina Rogozhina, Denis-Didier Rousseau & Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
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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13 Sep 2024 EGU webinar: how to write a research paper

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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.

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Recent papers

12 Sep 2024
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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
12 Sep 2024
Glacial AMOC shoaling despite vigorous tidal dissipation: vertical stratification matters
Yugeng Chen, Pengyang Song, Xianyao Chen, and Gerrit Lohmann
Clim. Past, 20, 2001–2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2001-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2001-2024, 2024
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11 Sep 2024
The climate and vegetation of Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East during the Last Glacial Maximum (21 000 yr BP) based on pollen data
Basil A. S. Davis, Marc Fasel, Jed O. Kaplan, Emmanuele Russo, and Ariane Burke
Clim. Past, 20, 1939–1988, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1939-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1939-2024, 2024
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10 Sep 2024
A question of time and space: A model approach to the synchronicity of gypsum and halite during the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Ronja Monika Ebner and Paul Meijer
Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2024-58,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2024-58, 2024
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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06 Sep 2024
Antarctic tipping points triggered by the mid-Pliocene warm climate
Javier Blasco, Ilaria Tabone, Daniel Moreno-Parada, Alexander Robinson, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Frank Pattyn, and Marisa Montoya
Clim. Past, 20, 1919–1938, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1919-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1919-2024, 2024
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Highlight articles

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
08 May 2024
A major midlatitude hurricane in the Little Ice Age
John Dickie and Grant Wach
Clim. Past, 20, 1141–1160, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1141-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1141-2024, 2024
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