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The following lists the recent preprints posted on EGUsphere with CP-related topics, the recent preprints posted in CP’s discussion forum, as well as final revised papers published recently in CP.
02 Mar 2026
Drivers of the δ18O changes in Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation between the Last Glacial Maximum and pre-industrial period
Thejna Tharammal, Govindasamy Bala, and Jesse Nusbaumer
Clim. Past, 22, 427–444, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-427-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-427-2026, 2026
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27 Feb 2026
Geochronological reconstruction of the glacial evolution in the Ésera valley (Central Pyrenees) during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
Ixeia Vidaller, Toshiyuki Fujioka, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno, Ana Moreno, and the ASTER Team
Clim. Past, 22, 405–425, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-405-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-405-2026, 2026
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26 Feb 2026
Permian-Triassic redox shift and its ferruginous aftermath in epicontinental seas
Fen Yang, Sen Li, Stephen Grasby, David Bond, Ming Pan, and Yadong Sun
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-863,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-863, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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24 Feb 2026
Amplified cooling of Snowball Earth from a salt–albedo feedback
Aksel Samuelsberg, Per Kristen Jakobsen, and Martin Rypdal
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-679,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-679, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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24 Feb 2026
Simulation of climate during the Miocene Climatic Optimum under different CO2 forcings
Hamida Ngoma Nadoya, Clay R. Tabor, Ran Feng, Xiaoqing Liu, Daniel E. Ibarra, Tammo Reichgelt, and Amber Laskos
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-899,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-899, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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20 Feb 2026
Riukojietna, a small low-altitude ice cap that may have persisted through the Holocene: Evidence from combining cosmogenic multi-nuclide dating and lacustrine sediment records
Arjen P. Stroeven, Gunhild C. Rosqvist, Allie J. Koester, Jane L. Andersen, Carl-Anton Wahlström, and Nathaniel A. Lifton
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-447,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-447, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
How temperature seasonality drives interglacial permafrost dynamics: implications for paleo reconstructions and future thaw trajectories
Jan Nitzbon, Moritz Langer, Luca Alexander Müller-Ißberner, Elisabeth Dietze, and Martin Werner
Clim. Past, 22, 377–403, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-377-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-377-2026, 2026
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19 Feb 2026
Analysis of the Relationship between Official Rain-Praying Rituals and Droughts in China over the Past 2000 Years
Shuo Wang, Yun Su, Jingxue Pan, and Nianjie Zhang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-187,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-187, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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17 Feb 2026
An ice core record of volcanic eruptions for the past 4000 years from Dome A, Antarctica
Chunlei An, Su Jiang, Guitao Shi, Hongmei Ma, Chuanjin Li, Zhe Li, Xiaolong Li, Ye Hu, Yan Liu, Xiao Yan, Ningning Sun, Bo Zhang, Shugui Hou, and Yuansheng Li
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-769,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-769, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 1 comment)
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17 Feb 2026
Atlantic water intrusions onto the Scotian Shelf during the past 8.6 ka BP
Henriette M. Kolling, Markus Kienast, Peter Matzerath, Julia Gottschalk, Stephanie Kienast, Daniel A. Frick, Felix Gross, Jack Wharton, David Thornalley, and Ralph R. Schneider
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-809,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-809, 2026
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13 Feb 2026
Rapid Communication: Two-phase Arctic cryosphere patterns associated with delayed Norwegian Sea warming peak during the Last Interglacial
Mohamed M. Ezat and Pepijn P. Bakker
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-732,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-732, 2026
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12 Feb 2026
Hydroclimatic variability and weather type characteristics in the Levant during the last interglacial
Efraim Bril, Adi Torfstein, Roy Yaniv, and Assaf Hochman
Clim. Past, 22, 339–355, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-339-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-339-2026, 2026
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12 Feb 2026
Decoding the North Atlantic Ocean circulation breakthrough in the Aptian–Albian transition
João M. F. Ramos, Jairo F. Savian, Daniel R. Franco, Milene F. Figueiredo, Rodolfo Coccioni, and Fabrizio Frontalini
Clim. Past, 22, 357–375, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-357-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-357-2026, 2026
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11 Feb 2026
The elusive 8.2 ka event in speleothems from southern France
Maddalena Passelergue, Isabelle Couchoud, Russell N. Drysdale, John Hellstrom, Dirk L. Hoffmann, and Alan Greig
Clim. Past, 22, 315–338, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-315-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-315-2026, 2026
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10 Feb 2026
Storminess in North West Europe and volcanic activity during the Holocene
Lisa C. Orme, Francis Ludlow, Natasha Langton, Jenny K. Sjöström, Malin E. Kylander, Conor Murphy, Sean D. F. Pyne-O'Donnell, Jonathan N. Turner, Nannan Li, Sarah J. Davies, Fraser J. G. Mitchell, and John A. Matthews
Clim. Past, 22, 287–313, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-287-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-287-2026, 2026
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06 Feb 2026
10 000 years of snow avalanche activity in western Norway: a multiproxy lake sediment record from Lake Vatnasetvatnet, Hardanger
Johannes Hardeng, Jostein Bakke, Jan M. Cederstrøm, and Marianne Veste
Clim. Past, 22, 265–286, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-265-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-265-2026, 2026
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06 Feb 2026
From manual classification to large language models: assessing the quality and consistency of historical convective event records
Franck Schätz and Rüdiger Glaser
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-199,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-199, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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06 Feb 2026
Holocene hydro-climatic variability and multi-frequency analyses at Lake Sidi Ali (Morocco)
Johannes Schmidt, Markus Reichert, Cathleen Kertscher, Rik Tjallingii, Birgit Schneider, Elisabeth Dietze, Laura Bergmann, Abdelfattah Benkaddour, Abdeslam Mikdad, Sylvain Pichat, William Fletcher, Steffen Mischke, and Christoph Zielhofer
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-414,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-414, 2026
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05 Feb 2026
Past Ocean surface density from planktonic foraminifera calcite δ18O
Thibaut Caley, Niclas Rieger, Martin Werner, Claire Waelbroeck, Héloise Barathieu, Tamara Happé, and Didier M. Roche
Clim. Past, 22, 247–263, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-247-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-247-2026, 2026
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05 Feb 2026
Nonlinear increase of Greenland Ice Sheet runoff into Disko Bay
Steffen Hetzinger, Jochen Halfar, Takaaki K. Watanabe, and Alexandra Tsay
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6074,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6074, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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05 Feb 2026
Suppression of orbital-induced polar amplification by lower GHG concentrations improves Mid-Holocene simulations in PMIP4
Wenyuan Wang, Hanjie Fan, Xiaoming Hu, Kaiqiang Deng, and Song Yang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-664,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-664, 2026
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04 Feb 2026
Carbon export and burial pathways driven by a low-latitude arc-continent collision
Amy I. Hsieh, Thierry Adatte, Shraddha Band, Li Lo, Romain Vaucher, Brahimsamba Bomou, Laszlo Kocsis, Pei-Ling Wang, and Samuel Jaccard
Clim. Past, 22, 227–246, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-227-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-227-2026, 2026
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02 Feb 2026
A global analysis of pollen-based reconstructions of land climate changes during Dansgaard–Oeschger events
Mengmeng Liu, Iain Colin Prentice, and Sandy P. Harrison
Clim. Past, 22, 205–226, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-205-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-22-205-2026, 2026
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02 Feb 2026
Using ocean surface paleo-density to evaluate PMIP3 and PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations
Héloïse Barathieu, Thibaut Caley, Masa Kageyama, Didier Swingedouw, and Pascale Braconnot
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-254,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-254, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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27 Jan 2026
Limited atmospheric iron availability increase during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Northern Hemisphere
François Burgay, Haley Derrod, Tobias Erhardt, Federico Scoto, Delia Segato, Niccolò Maffezzoli, Federico Dallo, Daniele Zannoni, Azzurra Spagnesi, Helle-Astrid Kjær, Hubertus Fischer, Cristiano Varin, Carlo Barbante, and Andrea Spolaor
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6339,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6339, 2026
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 1 comment)
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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, 1 comment)
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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, 1 comment)
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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, 2 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
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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: final response, 2 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
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