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Climate History Bulletin
September 2023
All panels at the World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH) are open for submissions, including "Altered Trajectories: Socio-Economic Impacts and Landscape Transformations due to Extreme Climatic Events in Historical Times" (https://wceh2024.com/programme#13500) The WCEH will be in Oulu, Finland 19-23 August 2024. The deadline for submissions is September 18. For more information see: https://wceh2024.com/
The Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment invites applications for its Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows program, with start dates as early as June 2024. This program supports outstanding scholars whose research focuses on innovative solutions to pressing technological, economic, and/or policy challenges relating to energy and the environment. Applications from members of groups that have been historically underrepresented within the energy and environment-related fields are highly encouraged.
The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton University is accepting applications for the 2024-2025 HMEI Environmental Fellows Program. This postdoctoral program seeks scholars from all disciplines. The fellowship supports early career scholars in developing their research in a dynamic environmental studies community. In addition to their research, fellows are expected to contribute to the undergraduate program; this can take the form of supporting an existing environmental studies course, helping to mentor a student internship team, or teaching a course of their own design.
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the UCLA, Simon Fraser University, and Sacramento State University will be hosting a conference in Athens, entitled “Envisioning the Greek Landscape: From Thera to Climate Change” October 19 – 21, 2023. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together academics and policymakers from ten countries around the world to discuss the perception and exploitation of the Greek environment, from antiquity to the present. Specifically, the conference seeks to explore how the various peoples and institutions who have overseen the Greek landscape have understood its natural wealth and how they have overcome natural climatic challenges. For details see press release and digital media kit: www.hellenicoutreach.org.
Frankopan, Peter. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. http://www.bloomsbury.com/theearthtransformed.
Ghazi, Babak, Rajmund Przybylak, Piotr Oliński, Katarzyna Bogdańska, and Aleksandra Pospieszyńska. “The Frequency, Intensity, and Origin of Floods in Poland in the 11th–15th Centuries Based on Documentary Evidence.” Journal of Hydrology 623 (August 1, 2023): 129778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129778.
Guo, Rui, and Alberto Montanari. “Historical Rainfall Data in Northern Italy Predict Larger Meteorological Drought Hazard than Climate Projections.” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 27, no. 15 (August 1, 2023): 2847–63. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2847-2023.
LaFay, Elaine. “Looking at the Weather: The Politics of Meteorological Data.” Harvard Data Science Review 5, no. 3 (July 27, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.dab5e00b.
Sibley, Andrew. “History of Weather Observing Sites in the Cambridge Area from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present-Day.” Weather 78, no. 8 (2023): 212–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4346.
Trentacoste, Angela, Ariadna Nieto-Espinet, Silvia Guimarães Chiarelli, and Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas. “Systems Change: Investigating Climatic and Environmental Impacts on Livestock Production in Lowland Italy between the Bronze Age and Late Antiquity (c. 1700 BC – AD 700).” Quaternary International, Zooarchaeology in the Interconnected Mediterranean: Livestock Production and Biometric Change between the Metal Ages and Late Antiquity, 662–663 (July 20, 2023): 26–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.11.005.
Paleoclimatology (high-resolution studies relevant to human history)
Alexandrin, Mikhail Y., Olga N. Solomina, and Andrei V. Darin. “Variations of Heat Availability in the Western Caucasus in the Past 1500 Years Inferred from a High-Resolution Record of Bromine in the Sediment of Lake Karakel.” Quaternary International 664 (August 10, 2023): 20–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.05.020.
Björklund, Jesper, Kristina Seftigen, Markus Stoffel, Marina V. Fonti, Sven Kottlow, David C. Frank, Jan Esper, et al. “Fennoscandian Tree-Ring Anatomy Shows a Warmer Modern than Medieval Climate.” Nature 620, no. 7972 (August 2023): 97–103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06176-4.
Bora Ön, Z. “A Bayesian Change Point Analysis Re-Examines the 4.2 Ka BP Event in Southeast Europe and Southwest Asia.” Quaternary Science Reviews 312 (July 15, 2023): 108163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108163.
Chamberlayne, Briony Kate, Jonathan James Tyler, Deborah Haynes, Yuexiao Shao, John Tibby, and Bronwyn May Gillanders. “Hydrological Change in Southern Australia over 1750 Years: A Bivalve Oxygen Isotope Record from the Coorong Lagoon.” Climate of the Past 19, no. 7 (July 18, 2023): 1383–96. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1383-2023.
Du, Haibo, Michael C. Stambaugh, Jesus Julio Camarero, Mai-He Li, Dapao Yu, Shengwei Zong, Hong S. He, and Zhengfang Wu. “A Comparison of Pre-Millennium Eruption (946 CE) and Modern Temperatures from Tree Rings in Changbai Mountain, Northeast Asia.” Climate of the Past 19, no. 7 (2023): 1295–1304. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1295-2023.
Falster, Georgina, Bronwen Konecky, Sloan Coats, and Samantha Stevenson. “Forced Changes in the Pacific Walker Circulation over the Past Millennium.” Nature, August 23, 2023, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06447-0.
Gjerde, Marthe, Oddmund Løkensgard Hoel, and Atle Nesje. “The ‘Little Ice Age’ Advance of Nigardsbreen, Norway: A Cross-Disciplinary Revision of the Chronological Framework.” The Holocene, July 30, 2023, 09596836231185830. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231185830.
Higgins, Philippa A., Jonathan G. Palmer, Martin S. Andersen, Christian S. M. Turney, and Fiona Johnson. “Extreme Events in the Multi-Proxy South Pacific Drought Atlas.” Climatic Change 176, no. 8 (July 24, 2023): 105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03585-2.
Kaushik, Arun, Anil K. Gupta, Steven C. Clemens, Pankaj Kumar, Prasanta Sanyal, Priyantan Gupta, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, et al. “Paleoclimatic Reconstruction of Northwest Himalaya since CE 475 Using Lake Sediments from Tadag Taal, Kumaun, India.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 619 (June 1, 2023): 111544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111544.
Kuhl, Eileen, Christian Zang, Jan Esper, Dana F. C. Riechelmann, Ulf Büntgen, Martin Briesch, Frederick Reinig, et al. “Using Machine Learning on Tree-Ring Data to Determine the Geographical Provenance of Historical Construction Timbers.” Ecosphere 14, no. 3 (2023): e4453. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4453.
Kunz, Marcel, Jan Esper, Eileen Kuhl, Lea Schneider, Ulf Büntgen, and Claudia Hartl. “Combining Tree-Ring Width and Density to Separate the Effects of Climate Variation and Insect Defoliation.” Forests 14, no. 7 (July 2023): 1478. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14071478.
Lapointe, Francois, Michael Retelle, Raymond S. Bradley, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Eivind Støren, Timothy Cook, and Josiane Rosario. “Multi-Proxy Evidence of Unprecedented Hydroclimatic Change in a High Arctic Proglacial Lake: Linnévatnet, Svalbard.” Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 55, no. 1 (December 31, 2023): 2223403. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2023.2223403.
Li, Teng, and Jinbao Li. “August Temperature Reconstruction Based on Tree-Ring Latewood Blue Intensity in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau.” Forests 14, no. 7 (July 2023): 1441. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14071441.
Nie, Wenzheng, Mingqi Li, Guofu Deng, and Xuemei Shao. “Impacts of Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Volcanic Forcing on the Late Summer Temperature of the Southern Tibetan Plateau.” Journal of Climate, July 24, 2023, 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0624.1.
Pang, Wenxuan, Qiang Li, Yu Liu, Huiming Song, Changfeng Sun, Jiachuan Wang, Yalan Yan, Qiufang Cai, and Meng Ren. “Precipitation Variations in China’s Altay Mountains Detected from Tree Rings Dating Back to AD 1615.” Forests 14, no. 7 (July 2023): 1496. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14071496.
Peitzsch, E. H., E. Hood, J. R. Harley, D. K. Stahle, N. E. Kichas, and G. J. Wolken. “Tree-Ring Derived Avalanche Frequency and Climate Associations in a High-Latitude, Maritime Climate.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 128, no. 8 (2023): e2023JF007154. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007154.
Rashid, Harunur, Zhaowu Zhang, David J. W. Piper, Ranjan Patro, and Yunping Xu. “Impact of Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age on the Labrador Current Flow Speed and the AMOC Reconstructed by the Sediment Dynamics and Biomarker Proxies.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 620 (June 15, 2023): 111558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111558.
Rauf, Zahid, Nowsherwan Zarif, Adam Khan, Samina Siddiqui, Seerat Fatima, Wahiba Iqbal, Hira Amin, et al. “The Western Himalayan Fir Tree Ring Record of Soil Moisture in Pakistan since 1855.” International Journal of Biometeorology 67, no. 9 (September 1, 2023): 1477–92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-023-02517-0.
Shi, Feng, Mingfang Ting, and Zhengtang Guo. “Quantitative Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Temperatures over the Past 2000 Years.” Frontiers of Earth Science 17, no. 2 (June 1, 2023): 632–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-023-1086-6.
Wu, Jie, Caiming Shen, Huan Yang, Shi Qian, and Shucheng Xie. “Holocene Temperature Variability in China.” Quaternary Science Reviews 312 (July 15, 2023): 108184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108184.
Yang, Bao, Minhui He, Liu Yang, Feng Wang, and Fredrik C. Ljungqvist. “Pine Maximum Latewood Density in Semi-Arid Northern China Records Hydroclimate Rather Than Temperature.” Geophysical Research Letters 50, no. 13 (2023): e2023GL104362. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104362.
Yin, Jian-Jun, Zhijun Wang, Wenqiang Shi, Qingfeng Shao, Xia Wu, Wei Tang, and Yuan Ma. “Spatial Pattern and Cause of Centennial-Scale Hydroclimatic Variability over Eastern China during the Last Millennium.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 627 (October 1, 2023): 111753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111753.
Yin, Yun-Li, Zaw Zaw, Xin-Hua Peng, Hui Zhang, Pei-Li Fu, Wen-Li Wang, Achim Bräuning, and Ze-Xin Fan. “Tree Rings in Tsuga Dumosa Reveal Increasing Drought Variability in Subtropical Southwest China over the Past Two Centuries.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, August 3, 2023, 111757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111757.
Yue, Weipeng, Kristina Seftigen, Feng Chen, Rob Wilson, Heli Zhang, Yunling Miao, Youping Chen, and Xiaoen Zhao. “Picea Schrenkiana Tree Ring Blue Intensity Reveal Recent Glacier Mass Loss in High Mountain Asia Is Unprecedented within the Last Four Centuries.” Global and Planetary Change 228 (September 1, 2023): 104210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104210.
Zhao, Yaru, Chenxi Xu, Yucheng Liu, Wenling An, and Zhengtang Guo. “Irrawaddy River Experienced More Frequent Hydrological Drought Events with Global Warming: Evidence from a 400-Year Tree Ring Oxygen Isotope Record.” CATENA 232 (November 1, 2023): 107455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107455.
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