Climate of the Past
Climate of the Past
CP
The following lists the recent preprints posted on EGUsphere with CP-related topics as well as final revised papers published recently in CP.
23 Jan 2026
Climate changes in Anatolia across the late Eocene and the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: successive warming and cooling, aridification, and implications for the westward dispersal of Asian terrestrial mammals
Paul Botté, Alexis Licht, Anne-Lise Jourdan, Leny Montheil, François Demory, Mustafa Kaya, Faruk Ocakoğlu, Mehmet Serkan Akkiraz, Deniz İbilioğlu, Pauline Coster, Grégoire Métais, Benjamin Raynaud, and K. Christopher Beard
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6383,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6383, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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22 Jan 2026
Holocene sea ice and paleoenvironment conditions in the Beaufort Sea (Canadian Arctic) reconstructed with lipid biomarkers
Madeleine Santos, Lisa Bröder, Matt O'Regan, Iván Hernández-Almeida, Tommaso Tesi, Lukas Bigler, Negar Haghipour, Daniel B. Nelson, Michael Fritz, and Julie Lattaud
Clim. Past, 22, 187–203, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-187-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-187-2026, 2026
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21 Jan 2026
A continuous 6000 a age depth relationship for the remainder of the Weißseespitze summit glacier based on 39Ar and 14C dating
David Wachs, Azzurra Spagnesi, Pascal Bohleber, Andrea Fischer, Martin Stocker-Waldhuber, Alexander Junkermann, Carl Kindermann, Linus Langenbacher, Niclas Mandaric, Joshua Marks, Florian Meienburg, Theo M. Jenk, Markus K. Oberthaler, and Werner Aeschbach
Clim. Past, 22, 173–185, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-173-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-173-2026, 2026
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21 Jan 2026
Paleoecology indicates wave climate as key factor in coral reef development
Patrick Boyden, Donghao Li, Sonia Bejarano, Benjamin Mueller, Christian Wild, Eric Mijts, Giovanni Scicchitano, Giovanni Scardino, Denovan Chauveau, Ute Merkel, Yusuf C. El-Khaled, Paolo Stocchi, Mark Vermeij, and Alessio Rovere
External preprint server, https://doi.org/10.31223/X58Q9J,https://doi.org/10.31223/X58Q9J, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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15 Jan 2026
Southern Ocean biological pump over the last glacial cycle from new diatom transfer functions
Mathieu Rembauville and Sylvain Pichat
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6347,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6347, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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14 Jan 2026
Data-model comparisons of the tropical hydroclimate response to the 8.2 ka Event with an isotope-enabled climate model
Andrea L. Moore, Alyssa R. Atwood, and Raquel E. Pauly
Clim. Past, 22, 73–172, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-73-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-73-2026, 2026
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12 Jan 2026
15th century climate in the Czech Lands and its Central European context
Rudolf Brázdil, Petr Dobrovolný, Max Carl Arne Torbenson, Lukáš Dolák, and Kateřina Chromá
Clim. Past, 22, 49–71, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-49-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-49-2026, 2026
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09 Jan 2026
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Historical Droughts in British Colonial Belize (1771–1981)
Oriol Ambrogio Gali, Sarah E. Metcalfe, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton, Betsabé de la Barreda-Bautista, Georgina H. Endfield, Sofia Márdero, Franziska Schrodt, and Alec McLellan
Clim. Past, 22, 25–47, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-25-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-25-2026, 2026
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09 Jan 2026
Rapid communication: Middle Pleistocene Transition as a phenomenon of orbitally enabled sensitivity to initial values
Mikhail Y. Verbitsky and Anne Willem Omta
Clim. Past, 22, 17–24, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-17-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-17-2026, 2026
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08 Jan 2026
The relative impacts of tropical Pacific teleconnections and local insolation on mid-Holocene precipitation over tropical South America
Minn Lin Wong and Xianfeng Wang
Clim. Past, 22, 1–16, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-1-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-1-2026, 2026
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07 Jan 2026
Concurrent hydrological closure and hominin presence in the Early Pleistocene Nihewan Basin (northern China): insights from stable isotopes
Ahmed H. Moghazi, Hailong Zhao, Chengjun Zhang, Birgit Schröder, and Steffen Mischke
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5999,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5999, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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07 Jan 2026
Mixed layer depth in the PMIP4 midHolocene simulations: comparison to proxy data in North Atlantic deep convection regions
Xiner Wu, Anne de Vernal, and Paul G. Myers
External preprint server, https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.176538434.49305238/v2,https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.176538434.49305238/v2, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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05 Jan 2026
Seasonal variations in flooding inferred from lake sediments in Western Norway
Pål Ringkjøb Nielsen, Jostein Bakke, Øyvind Paasche, Jan Magne Cederstrøm, Johannes Hardeng, and George Edward Young
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6279,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6279, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Jan 2026
Glacial-interglacial shifts in dominant climate forcing over the last 33 ka in the northern South China Sea
Xueqin Zhao, Shengjie Ye, Jiahui Yao, Michael E. Meadows, Chengyu Weng, Yasong Wang, Mingxing Zhang, and Yunping Xu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6415,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6415, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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02 Jan 2026
Air temperature changes in Wrocław (SW Poland) in 1773–81 based on a newly discovered series of meteorological measurements
Rajmund Przybylak, Aleksandra Pospieszyńska, and Piotr Oliński
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6326,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6326, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 1 comment)
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30 Dec 2025
Unravelling the tree cover dynamics over the last 20,000 years on the Northern Hemisphere
Anne Dallmeyer, Nils Weitzel, Laura Schild, Ulrike Herzschuh, Thomas Kleinen, and Martin Claussen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6393,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6393, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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29 Dec 2025
Pleistocene Benthic Foraminifer Bioevents in the Central Arctic Ocean: stratigraphic and paleoceanographic implications
Jutta Erika Wollenburg and Jens Matthiessen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6290,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6290, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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18 Dec 2025
The Nenjiang Formation responses to astronomically forced climate changes during the Upper Cretaceous in the Gulong Area, Songliao Basin, NE China
Yubin Guo, Jinyou He, and Shaobin Guo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5799,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5799, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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17 Dec 2025
Modelling the impact of palaeogeographical changes on weathering and CO2 during the Cretaceous–Eocene period
Nick R. Hayes, Daniel J. Lunt, Yves Goddéris, Richard D. Pancost, and Heather Buss
Clim. Past, 21, 2601–2618, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2601-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2601-2025, 2025
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12 Dec 2025
Delivery of aged terrestrial organic matter to the Laptev Sea during the last deglaciation
Arnaud Nicolas, Jens Hefter, Hendrik Grotheer, Tommaso Tesi, Ruediger Stein, Alessio Nogarotto, Eduardo Queiroz Alves, and Gesine Mollenhauer
Clim. Past, 21, 2579–2599, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2579-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2579-2025, 2025
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08 Dec 2025
Distinct winter North Atlantic climate responses to tropical and extratropical eruptions over the last millennium in PMIP simulations and reconstructions
Qin Tao, Cheng Shen, Raimund Muscheler, and Jesper Sjolte
Clim. Past, 21, 2561–2578, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2561-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2561-2025, 2025
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05 Dec 2025
Photic zone niche partitioning, stratification, and carbon cycling in the tropical Indian Ocean during the Piacenzian
Deborah N. Tangunan, Ian R. Hall, Luc Beaufort, Melissa A. Berke, Alexandra Nederbragt, and Paul R. Bown
Clim. Past, 21, 2541–2560, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2541-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2541-2025, 2025
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04 Dec 2025
Atmospheric pressure and anemological conditions in south-western Greenland in the second half of the 18th century
Konrad Chmist, Garima Singh, Andrzej Araźny, Rajmund Przybylak, and Przemysław Wyszyński
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5657,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5657, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 2 comments)
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04 Dec 2025
Reconstruction of winter temperature of southwest China over the past 300 years based on a Bayesian approach
Siyu Chen and Stefan Brönnimann
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5326,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5326, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 1 comment)
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04 Dec 2025
Strong volcanic imprints contrast with a mild Little Ice Age: a first temperature reconstruction based on maximum latewood density from the Caucasus
Rupesh Dhyani, Dario Martin Benito, Louis Verschuren, Vladimir Matskovsky, Jan Van den Bulcke, Mehmet Doğan, Revaz Kvaratskhelia, Nesibe Köse, Hüseyin Tuncay Güner, and Lea Schneider
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5809,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5809, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 2 comments)
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02 Dec 2025
Insights into the Middle–Late Miocene palaeoceanographic development of Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean) from a new δ18O and δ13C stable isotope composite record
Torin Cannings, Alastair H. F. Robertson, and Dick Kroon
Clim. Past, 21, 2501–2523, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2501-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2501-2025, 2025
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02 Dec 2025
Penultimate glacial sea surface temperature and hydrologic variability in the tropical South Pacific from 150 ka Tahiti corals
Ryuji Asami, Thomas Felis, Ryuichi Shinjo, Masafumi Murayama, and Yasufumi Iryu
Clim. Past, 21, 2525–2539, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2525-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2525-2025, 2025
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28 Nov 2025
CYCLIM: a semi-automated cycle counting tool for generating age models and palaeoclimate reconstructions
Edward C. G. Forman and James U. L. Baldini
Clim. Past, 21, 2485–2500, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2485-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2485-2025, 2025
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28 Nov 2025
New planktonic foraminifera-derived transfer function for the South Atlantic Ocean: Palaeoceanographic implications for the Brazil- Malvinas Confluence
Paula Belen Albarracin, Natalia Luz García Chapori, and Cecilia Laprida
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5531,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5531, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 2 comments)
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28 Nov 2025
The Marine Isotopic Stage 7: a relic of the "41-ka world"? Perspectives from a global-scale sea-surface temperature synthesis
Etienne Legrain, Nathan Stevenard, Emilie Capron, Frédéric Parrenin, and Natalia Vazquez Riveiros
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5840,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5840, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 1 comment)
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27 Nov 2025
Lacustrine methane release on the Tibetan Plateau as an important driver of Early Miocene global warming
Cheng Yang, Xiugen Fu, Jinxian Deng, Hengye Wei, Yue Wen, Tianxiang Wen, and Shengqiang Zeng
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5342,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5342, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 2 comments)
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26 Nov 2025
Mid-Holocene sea-ice dynamics and climate in the northeastern Weddell Sea inferred from an Antarctic snow petrel stomach oil deposit
Mark A. Stevenson, Dominic A. Hodgson, Michael J. Bentley, Darren R. Gröcke, Neil Tunstall, Chris Longley, Alice Graham, and Erin L. McClymont
Clim. Past, 21, 2465–2483, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2465-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2465-2025, 2025
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25 Nov 2025
High-resolution paleo-storm reconstructions from Eastern Canada align with late Holocene northwestern Atlantic hurricane records
Antoine Lachance, Matthew C. Peros, Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, Pierre Francus, and Nicole K. Sanderson
Clim. Past, 21, 2407–2439, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2407-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2407-2025, 2025
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25 Nov 2025
Continental shelf glaciations off Northeast Greenland since the Late Miocene
Frank W. Jakobsen, Monica Winsborrow, Tove Nielsen, Jan Sverre Laberg, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Christoph Böttner, Adrián López-Quirós, Sverre Planke, and Benjamin Bellwald
Clim. Past, 21, 2441–2464, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2441-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2441-2025, 2025
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25 Nov 2025
The Late Pliocene jet stream: Changes and drivers of the mean state and variability
Abigail E. C. Buchan, Alan M. Haywood, Julia C. Tindall, Stephen J. Hunter, Aisling M. Dolan, and Daniel J. Hill
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5660,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5660, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: final response, 2 comments)
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24 Nov 2025
Ice core site considerations from modeling CO2 and O2 ∕ N2 ratio diffusion in interior East Antarctica
Marc J. Sailer, Tyler J. Fudge, John D. Patterson, Shuai Yan, Duncan A. Young, Shivangini Singh, Don Blankenship, and Megan Kerr
Clim. Past, 21, 2389–2406, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2389-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2389-2025, 2025
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