Calls for Papers and Panels

Due today (1 March 2022): 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.

Upcoming Events

The Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) 2023 colloquium ”Late Antique Pandemics in Context: New Perspectives, New Collaborations, New Histories” will take place on 21-22 April 2023 at Georgetown University. This year’s meeting is planned as an interdisciplinary workshop that will focus on the late antique Mediterranean, but contributions will address diverse evidence for disease outbreaks from across Afro- Eurasia. Historians, archaeologists, physical anthropologists and palaeogenomicists will collaborate on investigating the extent of our knowledge about disease outbreaks, ~100-900 CE. For further information see https://climatechangeandhistory.princeton.edu/

The PAGES Volcanoes in Climate and Society (VICS) working group will hold its fifth workshop “Moving forward by looking back” at the University of Bern, Switzerland, from 22-24 May. The deadline for registration is 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.

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 organized 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

Other News

The Volc2Clim (“From volcanic sulfur emissions to climate forcing and response”) tool is now publicly available at https://volc2clim.bgs.ac.uk/. Volc2Clim is an online webtool where you can input eruption source parameters characterizing an explosive volcanic SO₂ injection to calculate stratospheric aerosol optical properties, global-mean radiative forcing and changes in global-mean surface temperature in response to the volcanic sulfur emission. Volc2Clim combines published, simple models for volcanic aerosol forcing and climate. Outputs include simple figures and csv files with displayed data, as well as netcdf files with 4-dimensional aerosol properties that can be used to run global climate model simulations of explosive volcanic eruptions.

New Publications

Historical Climatology / Climate, Science, and Culture

Camuffo, Dario. “The Treatise on Waters by Cornaro (1560) and a Quantitative Assessment of the Historical Sea Surges ‘Acqua Alta’ in Venice.” Climatic Change 176, no. 3 (2023): 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03492-6.

Macdonald, N., S. Naylor, J. P. Bowen, A. Harvey-Fishenden, and E. Graham. “Understanding Weather Futures Based on the Past: A Case of Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.” Scottish Geographical Journal, January 23, 2023, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2158366.

Naylor, Simon, Neil Macdonald, James P. Bowen, and Georgina Endfield. “Extreme Weather, School Logbooks and Social Vulnerability: The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Journal of Historical Geography 78 (2022): 84–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2022.07.006.

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.

Wardle Woodend, Mel, Alice Harvey-Fishenden, and Neil Macdonald. Flood and Drought Poetry: Experiences of Weather Extremes in Staffordshire. Edited by Mel Wardle Woodend, Alice Harvey-Fishenden, and Neil Macdonald. Staffordshire: Dreamwell Writing Limited, 2022. http://www.dreamwellwriting.simplesite.com/.

Archaeology

Costello, Eugene, Kevin Kearney, and Benjamin Gearey. “Adapting to the Little Ice Age in Pastoral Regions: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate History in North-West Europe.” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 0, no. 0 (January 31, 2023): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2022.2156958.

Dijk, Evelien van, Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen, Anna de Bode, Helge Høeg, Kjetil Loftsgarden, Frode Iversen, Claudia Timmreck, Johann Jungclaus, and Kirstin Krüger. “Climatic and Societal Impacts in Scandinavia Following the 536 and 540 CE Volcanic Double Event.” Climate of the Past 19, no. 2 (February 3, 2023): 357–98. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-357-2023.

Manning, Sturt W., Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, and Jed P. Sparks. “Severe Multi-Year Drought Coincident with Hittite Collapse around 1198–1196 BC.” Nature, February 8, 2023, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05693-y.

Roberts, Neil. “Holocene Climate Changes and Human Consequences.” In Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, 321–37. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119592112.ch16.

Paleoclimatology (high-resolution studies relevant to human history)

Büntgen, Ulf, Alan Crivellaro, Dominique Arseneault, Mike Baillie, David Barclay, Mauro Bernabei, Jarno Bontadi, et al. “Global Wood Anatomical Perspective on the Onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) in the Mid-6th Century CE.” Science Bulletin 67, no. 22 (2022): 2336–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2022.10.019.

Kaufman, Darrell S., and Ellie Broadman. “Revisiting the Holocene Global Temperature Conundrum.” Nature 614, no. 7948 (February 2023): 425–35. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05536-w.

Nguyen, Hung T. T., Stefano Galelli, Chenxi Xu, and Brendan M. Buckley. “Droughts, Pluvials, and Wet Season Timing Across the Chao Phraya River Basin: A 254-Year Monthly Reconstruction From Tree Ring Widths and Δ18O.” Geophysical Research Letters 49, no. 17 (2022): e2022GL100442. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100442.

Skrzyńska, Magdalena, and Robert Twardosz. “Long-Term Changes in the Frequency of Exceptionally Cold and Warm Months in Europe (1831–2020).” International Journal of Climatology, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7978.

Veh, Georg, Natalie Lützow, Jenny Tamm, Lisa V. Luna, Romain Hugonnet, Kristin Vogel, Marten Geertsema, John J. Clague, and Oliver Korup. “Less Extreme and Earlier Outbursts of Ice-Dammed Lakes since 1900.” Nature, February 15, 2023, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05642-9.

Please share your news!

Email climatehistorynetwork@lists.osu.edu

or use this Google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HGNXf9dUkYnjvgNx3QeJLuzE7DrPr2ARtSAqBj4jBWQ/edit?usp=sharing