Calls for Papers and Panels

The CLIMCULT project at the University of Oslo and the PAGES-CRIAS working group invite paper proposals for the upcoming workshop “Climate and Conflict Revisited: Perspectives from Past and Present” in Oslo on 11-12 May 2023. This workshop will revisit the climate-conflict nexus, bringing together fields of climate history and conflict studies. It will encourage researchers at all career stages to reflect on research designs that can integrate diverse methods and sources, both quantitative and qualitative. We invite contributions that attempt to pool evidence, investigate cross-disciplinary potential, and reflect on future shared methodologies. Participation is free of charge. Travel grants are available for early career researchers. Online sessions are planned for overseas participants. Please send your one-page summary of your presentation and a short CV by 1 March 2023 to: dominik.collet@iakh.uio.no.

The abstract submission is now open for the 5th VICS Workshop on “Moving forward by looking back” to be held at the University of Bern, Switzerland, from 22-24 May. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 February and for registration 31 March. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format with in-person and online participation possible. There will be workshop sessions on volcanology and hazards, climate and volcanic proxies, observations and models, and human impacts in history and archaeology. Please see the conference website for full details on submission, registration, early career travel grants and general information - https://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/vics2023. Michael Sigl and Peter Abbott (workshop organisers).

The World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH) has opened its call for panels. The conference will be held in Oulu, Finland 19-23 August 2024. Panels must be proposed via the online form by 3 April 2023. Please read more about the conference and the conference theme at https://wceh2024.com/ (And I hope some of you can join me up here in Finland next year!)

Calls for Articles

The call for submissions for this special issue on "Climate History and Historical Climatology in the Americas, 16th to 20th Centuries" of the Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura has been extended to 15 February 2023. Katherinne Mora Pacheco, Brad Skopyk, and Gabriel Pereira are acting editors. The call is here: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/achsc/ACHSC_51_1. Submissions are welcome in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Informamos a la comunidad académica que el Anuario ha decidido extender el plazo de entrega de artículos y reseñas para la convocatoria del dossier "Historia Climática y Climatología Histórica en las Américas, siglos XVI a XX" hasta el día 15 de febrero de 2023. ¡No se queden sin participar!

Upcoming Events

The 9th Edition of the International Conference on Meteorology and Climatology of the Mediterranean (MetMed 2023) will take place in person in Genoa (Italy) on May 22-24, 2023. MetMed 2023 is jointly organised by the University of Genoa, the Italian Association of Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (AISAM), the Catalan Association of Meteorology (ACAM), with the support of Tethys, the Journal of Mediterranean Meteorology & Climatology, and the University of the Balearic Islands. https://www.cmcc.it/article/9th-international-conference-on-meteorology-and-climatology-of-the-mediterranean

New Publications

Historical Climatology / Climate, Science, and Culture

Diakakis, Michalis, Katerina Papagiannaki, and Meletis Fouskaris. “The Occurrence of Catastrophic Multiple-Fatality Flash Floods in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.” Water 15, no. 1 (2023): 119. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15010119.

Hakenbeck, Susanne E., and Ulf Büntgen. “The Role of Drought during the Hunnic Incursions into Central-East Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE.” Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2022, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000332.

Izdebski, Adam, Kevin Bloomfield, Warren J. Eastwood, Ricardo Fernandes, Dominik Fleitmann, Piotr Guzowski, John Haldon, et al. “L’émergence d’une histoire environnementale interdisciplinaire. Une approche conjointe de l’Holocène tardif.” Translated by Antoine Heudre. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 77, no. 1 (2022): 11–58. https://doi.org/10.1017/ahss.2022.114.

Kim, Sungwoo. “Successive Volcanic Eruptions (1809–1815) and Two Severe Famines of Korea (1809–1810, 1814–1815) Seen through Historical Records.” Climatic Change 176, no. 1 (2023): 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03480-w.

Lehmann, Philipp. Desert Edens. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691168869/desert-edens.

Liang, Yaqun, Youping Chen, Feng Chen, and Heli Zhang. “Possible Role of the Regional NDVI in the Expansion of the Chiefdom of Lijiang during the Ming Dynasty as Reflected by Historical Documents and Tree Rings.” Weather Climate and Society 14, no. 4 (2022): 1107–18. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0144.1.

Lundstad, Elin, Yuri Brugnara, Duncan Pappert, Jérôme Kopp, Eric Samakinwa, André Hürzeler, Axel Andersson, et al. “The Global Historical Climate Database HCLIM.” Scientific Data 10, no. 1 (2023): 44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01919-w.

Matloubkari, Esmaeil, and Babak Shaikh Baikloo Islam. “Climate Change and Challenges of the Last Ancient Dynasty of Iran: The Decline and Fall of the Sassanid Empire.” Persica Antiqua 2, no. 2 (2022): 61–76. https://doi.org/10.22034/pa.2021.138159.

Pappert, Duncan, Mariano Barriendos, Yuri Brugnara, Noemi Imfeld, Sylvie Jourdain, Rajmund Przybylak, Christian Rohr, and Stefan Brönnimann. “Statistical Reconstruction of Daily Temperature and Sea Level Pressure in Europe for the Severe Winter 1788/89.” Climate of the Past 18, no. 12 (2022): 2545–65. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2545-2022.

Pei, Yiru, Qing Pei, Harry F. Lee, Mengyuan Qiu, and Yuting Yang. “Epidemics in Pre-Industrial Europe: Impacts of Climate Change, Economic Well-Being, and Population.” Anthropocene 37 (2022): 100317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2021.100317.

Singh, Ram, Kostas Tsigaridis, Allegra N. LeGrande, Francis Ludlow, and Joseph G. Manning. “Investigating Hydroclimatic Impacts of the 168–158BCE Volcanic Quartet and Their Relevance to the Nile River Basin and Egyptian History.” Climate of the Past 19, no. 1 (2023): 249–75. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-249-2023.

Tubi, Amit, Lee Mordechai, Eran Feitelson, Paul Kay, and Dan Tamir. “Can We Learn from the Past? Towards Better Analogies and Historical Inference in Society-Environmental Change Research.” Global Environmental Change 76 (September 1, 2022): 102570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102570.

Tuset, Jordi, Mariano Barriendos, and Josep Barriendos. “Historical Floods on the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: A Methodological Proposal for the Classification of Information at High Spatio–Temporal Resolution—AMICME Database (CE 1035–2022).” Land 11, no. 12 (2022): 2311. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11122311.

Valle, Antonio della, Dario Camuffo, Francesca Becherini, and Valeria Zanini. “Recovering, Correcting, and Reconstructing Precipitation Data Affected by Gaps and Irregular Readings: The Padua Series from 1812 to 1864.” Climatic Change 176, no. 2 (2023): 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03485-5.

Yeasmin, Alea, Savin Chand, and Nargiz Sultanova. “Reconstruction of Tropical Cyclone and Depression Proxies for the South Pacific since the 1850s.” Weather and Climate Extremes 39 (2023): 100543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100543

Archaeology

Jacobson, Matthew J., Jordan Pickett, Alison L. Gascoigne, Dominik Fleitmann, and Hugh Elton. “Settlement, Environment, and Climate Change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of Regional Variation and the End of Antiquity.” PLOS ONE 17, no. 6 (June 27, 2022): e0270295. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270295.

Robbins Schug, Gwen, Jane E. Buikstra, Sharon N. DeWitte, Brenda J. Baker, Elizabeth Berger, Michele R. Buzon, Anna M. Davies-Barrett, et al. “Climate Change, Human Health, and Resilience in the Holocene.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 4 (2023): e2209472120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209472120.

Schug, Gwen Robbins. The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change. Paperback edition. Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge, 2022.

Trebeleva, Galina, Andrey Kizilov, Vasiliy Lobkovskiy, and Gleb Yurkov. “Evolving Cultural and Historical Landscapes of Northwestern Colchis during the Medieval Period: Physical Environment and Urban Decline Causes.” Land 11, no. 12 (December 2022): 2202. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11122202.

Paleoclimatology (high-resolution studies relevant to human history)

Dai, Zhangqi, Bin Wang, Ling Zhu, Jian Liu, Weiyi Sun, Longhui Li, Guonian Lü, Liang Ning, Mi Yan, and Kefan Chen. “Atlantic Multidecadal Variability Response to External Forcing during the Past Two Millennia.” Journal of Climate 35, no. 24 (November 30, 2022): 4503–15. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0986.1.

Denniston, Rhawn F., Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Kerry Emanuel, Roberto Ingrosso, Francesco S. R. Pausata, Alan D. Wanamaker, Matthew S. Lachniet, et al. “Sensitivity of Northwest Australian Tropical Cyclone Activity to ITCZ Migration since 500 CE.” Science Advances 9, no. 2 (2023): eadd9832. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add9832.

Dolgova, Ekaterina A., Olga N. Solomina, Vladimir V. Matskovsky, Elena A. Cherenkova, and Nadejda S. Semenyak. “Climate Signal Strength in Tree-Ring Width of Spruce Growing in the Solovetsky Islands (Russia).” Dendrochronologia 76 (December 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2022.126012.

Erb, Michael P., Nicholas P. McKay, Nathan Steiger, Sylvia Dee, Chris Hancock, Ruza F. Ivanovic, Lauren J. Gregoire, and Paul Valdes. “Reconstructing Holocene Temperatures in Time and Space Using Paleoclimate Data Assimilation.” Climate of the Past 18, no. 12 (2022): 2599–2629. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2599-2022.

Fan, Baoshuo, Hongli Xie, Yuecong Li, Yun Zhang, Zhaoguang Jin, Qinghai Xu, Jiaxing Yang, et al. “Quantitative Reconstruction of the Vegetation of the Qinhuangdao Area, Western Coast of Bohai Sea, North China, during the Little Ice Age.” Quaternary International, Quantitative Land-Cover Reconstructions for China over the Past 6000 Years, 641 (2022): 51–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.02.024.

Fernandez-Navarro, Hans, Juan-Luis Garcia, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Dmitry Tikhomirov, Francia Perez, Isabelle Gartner-Roer, Marcus Christl, and Markus Egli. “Fluctuations of the Universidad Glacier in the Andes of Central Chile (34? S) during the Latest Holocene Derived from a 10Be Moraine Chronology.” Quaternary Science Reviews 300 (2023): 107884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107884.

Hau, Nguyen-Xuan, Masaki Sano, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Shin-Hao Chen, and I-Ching Chen. “The Modulation of Pacific Decadal Oscillation on ENSO-East Asian Summer Monsoon Relationship over the Past Half-Millennium.” Science of The Total Environment 857 (January 20, 2023): 159437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159437.

Liu, Yang, Jianming Chen, Jingyun Zheng, and Xuezhen Zhang. “Regional Differences in Summer Monsoon Precipitation Variability Reconstructed from Multiple Proxies in Asia during the Past Millennium.” International Journal of Climatology, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7949.

Liu, Yang, Jingyun Zheng, Zhixin Hao, and Quansheng Ge. “A Dataset of Standard Precipitation Index Reconstructed from Multi-Proxies over Asia for the Past 300 Years.” Earth System Science Data 14, no. 12 (December 23, 2022): 5717–35. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-5717-2022.

Lu, Qiangqiang, Xiaohong Liu, Liangcheng Tan, Frank Keppler, Kerstin Treydte, Anna Wieland, Lingnan Zhang, et al. “Tree-Ring Δ2H Records of Lignin Methoxy Indicate Spring Temperature Changes since 20th Century in the Qinling Mountains, China.” Dendrochronologia 76 (2022): 126020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2022.126020.

Preechamart, Sineenart, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Achim Bräuning, Chotika Muangsong, Binggui Cai, and Supaporn Buajan. “Inter-Annual and Intra-Annual Tree-Ring Oxygen Isotope Signals in Response to Monsoon Rainfall in Northwestern Thailand.” The Holocene, December 21, 2022, 09596836221138352. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221138352.

Reddy, Phanindra A., Naveen Gandhi, and R. Krishnan. “Review of Speleothem Records of the Late Holocene: Indian Summer Monsoon Variability & Interplay between the Solar and Oceanic Forcing.” Quaternary International 642 (December 30, 2022): 41–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.018.

Tan, Fei, Yunfeng Zhang, Li Cao, Huilong Xu, Qi Shi, Xiyang Zhang, Shichen Tao, Jianxin Zhao, and Hongqiang Yang. “Meridional Response of Western North Pacific Paleocyclone Activity to Tropical Atmospheric Circulation Variability over the Past Millennium.” Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 610 (2023): 111331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111331.

Villanueva-Díaz, José, Juan Estrada-Ávalos, Aldo Rafael Martínez-Sifuentes, Arian Correa-Díaz, David M. Meko, Luis Ubaldo Castruita-Esparza, and Julián Cerano-Paredes. “Historic Variability of the Water Inflow to the Lazaro Cardenas Dam and Water Allocation in the Irrigation District 017, Comarca Lagunera, Mexico.” Forests 13, no. 12 (2022): 2057. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13122057.

Zhang, Zeguo, Sebastian Wagner, Marlene Klockmann, and Eduardo Zorita. “Evaluation of Statistical Climate Reconstruction Methods Based on Pseudoproxy Experiments Using Linear and Machine-Learning Methods.” Climate of the Past 18, no. 12 (December 20, 2022): 2643–68. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2643-2022.

Zhang, Zhiping, Zhongwei Shen, Shanjia Zhang, Jie Chen, Shengqian Chen, Dongxue Li, Shuai Zhang, et al. “Lake Level Evidence for a Mid-Holocene East Asian Summer Monsoon Maximum and the Impact of an Abrupt Late-Holocene Drought Event on Prehistoric Cultures in North-Central China.” The Holocene, December 29, 2022, 09596836221145362. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221145362.

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