Climate of the past 2000 years: regional and trans-regional syntheses
Climate of the past 2000 years: regional and trans-regional syntheses
Editor(s): H. V. McGregor, P. Francus, N. Abram, M. N. Evans, H. Goosse, L. von Gunten, D. Kaufman, H. Linderholm, M. F. Loutre, R. Neukom, and C. Turney
The 2013 PAGES 2k consortium reconstructions have shown clear regional expressions of temperature variability at the multi-decadal to century scale, whereas a long-term cooling trend prior to the 20th century was evident globally. These findings pointed to the necessity of understanding regional differences for a truly global view. This special issue intends to assemble papers proceeding from the coordinated efforts of the PAGES 2k network to refine temperature reconstructions and create a history of regional precipitation changes. To achieve this goal, it will gather a series of synthesis papers from each PAGES regional group, i.e Australasia, Arctic, Antarctic, South and Central America, North America, Europe, Asia and from the Oceans, as well as transregional comparisons. This special issue will include reconstructions from not only various types archives, e.g. documents, tree rings, sediments and ice, but also model-proxy comparisons, analyses of modes of variability and assessments of dating uncertainties.

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29 Mar 2019
Introduction to the special issue “Climate of the past 2000 years: regional and trans-regional syntheses”
Chris S. M. Turney, Helen V. McGregor, Pierre Francus, Nerilie Abram, Michael N. Evans, Hugues Goosse, Lucien von Gunten, Darrell Kaufman, Hans Linderholm, Marie-France Loutre, and Raphael Neukom
Clim. Past, 15, 611–615, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-611-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-611-2019, 2019
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28 May 2018
Placing the Common Era in a Holocene context: millennial to centennial patterns and trends in the hydroclimate of North America over the past 2000 years
Bryan N. Shuman, Cody Routson, Nicholas McKay, Sherilyn Fritz, Darrell Kaufman, Matthew E. Kirby, Connor Nolan, Gregory T. Pederson, and Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques
Clim. Past, 14, 665–686, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-665-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-665-2018, 2018
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24 May 2018
Decreasing Indian summer monsoon on the northern Indian sub-continent during the last 180 years: evidence from five tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotope chronologies
Chenxi Xu, Masaki Sano, Ashok Priyadarshan Dimri, Rengaswamy Ramesh, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Feng Shi, and Zhengtang Guo
Clim. Past, 14, 653–664, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-653-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-653-2018, 2018
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03 May 2018
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Technical note: Open-paleo-data implementation pilot – the PAGES 2k special issue
Darrell S. Kaufman and PAGES 2k special-issue editorial team
Clim. Past, 14, 593–600, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-593-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-593-2018, 2018
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10 Apr 2018
Arctic hydroclimate variability during the last 2000 years: current understanding and research challenges
Hans W. Linderholm, Marie Nicolle, Pierre Francus, Konrad Gajewski, Samuli Helama, Atte Korhola, Olga Solomina, Zicheng Yu, Peng Zhang, William J. D'Andrea, Maxime Debret, Dmitry V. Divine, Björn E. Gunnarson, Neil J. Loader, Nicolas Massei, Kristina Seftigen, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Johannes Werner, Sofia Andersson, Annika Berntsson, Tomi P. Luoto, Liisa Nevalainen, Saija Saarni, and Minna Väliranta
Clim. Past, 14, 473–514, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-473-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-473-2018, 2018
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15 Feb 2018
300 years of hydrological records and societal responses to droughts and floods on the Pacific coast of Central America
Alvaro Guevara-Murua, Caroline A. Williams, Erica J. Hendy, and Pablo Imbach
Clim. Past, 14, 175–191, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-175-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-175-2018, 2018
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25 Jan 2018
Climate variability in the subarctic area for the last 2 millennia
Marie Nicolle, Maxime Debret, Nicolas Massei, Christophe Colin, Anne deVernal, Dmitry Divine, Johannes P. Werner, Anne Hormes, Atte Korhola, and Hans W. Linderholm
Clim. Past, 14, 101–116, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-101-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-101-2018, 2018
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22 Dec 2017
Multi-proxy reconstructions of May–September precipitation field in China over the past 500 years
Feng Shi, Sen Zhao, Zhengtang Guo, Hugues Goosse, and Qiuzhen Yin
Clim. Past, 13, 1919–1938, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1919-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1919-2017, 2017
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20 Dec 2017
Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era
PAGES Hydro2k Consortium
Clim. Past, 13, 1851–1900, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1851-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1851-2017, 2017
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18 Dec 2017
Hydroclimate variability in Scandinavia over the last millennium – insights from a climate model–proxy data comparison
Kristina Seftigen, Hugues Goosse, Francois Klein, and Deliang Chen
Clim. Past, 13, 1831–1850, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1831-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1831-2017, 2017
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30 Nov 2017
Multi-century cool- and warm-season rainfall reconstructions for Australia's major climatic regions
Mandy Freund, Benjamin J. Henley, David J. Karoly, Kathryn J. Allen, and Patrick J. Baker
Clim. Past, 13, 1751–1770, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1751-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1751-2017, 2017
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17 Nov 2017
Reconstructing Late Holocene North Atlantic atmospheric circulation changes using functional paleoclimate networks
Jasper G. Franke, Johannes P. Werner, and Reik V. Donner
Clim. Past, 13, 1593–1608, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1593-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1593-2017, 2017
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17 Nov 2017
Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years
Barbara Stenni, Mark A. J. Curran, Nerilie J. Abram, Anais Orsi, Sentia Goursaud, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Raphael Neukom, Hugues Goosse, Dmitry Divine, Tas van Ommen, Eric J. Steig, Daniel A. Dixon, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Elisabeth Isaksson, Alexey Ekaykin, Martin Werner, and Massimo Frezzotti
Clim. Past, 13, 1609–1634, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1609-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1609-2017, 2017
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16 Nov 2017
Episodic Neoglacial expansion and rapid 20th century retreat of a small ice cap on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, and modeled temperature change
Simon L. Pendleton, Gifford H. Miller, Robert A. Anderson, Sarah E. Crump, Yafang Zhong, Alexandra Jahn, and Áslaug Geirsdottir
Clim. Past, 13, 1527–1537, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1527-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1527-2017, 2017
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10 Nov 2017
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Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years
Elizabeth R. Thomas, J. Melchior van Wessem, Jason Roberts, Elisabeth Isaksson, Elisabeth Schlosser, Tyler J. Fudge, Paul Vallelonga, Brooke Medley, Jan Lenaerts, Nancy Bertler, Michiel R. van den Broeke, Daniel A. Dixon, Massimo Frezzotti, Barbara Stenni, Mark Curran, and Alexey A. Ekaykin
Clim. Past, 13, 1491–1513, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1491-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1491-2017, 2017
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26 Oct 2017
Low-resolution Australasian palaeoclimate records of the last 2000 years
Bronwyn C. Dixon, Jonathan J. Tyler, Andrew M. Lorrey, Ian D. Goodwin, Joëlle Gergis, and Russell N. Drysdale
Clim. Past, 13, 1403–1433, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1403-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1403-2017, 2017
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14 Dec 2016
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North American regional climate reconstruction from ground surface temperature histories
Fernando Jaume-Santero, Carolyne Pickler, Hugo Beltrami, and Jean-Claude Mareschal
Clim. Past, 12, 2181–2194, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2181-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2181-2016, 2016
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