Concern about anthropogenic climate change has heightened the need for accurate
information about spatial and temporal variations in precipitation at the Earth's surface …

This paper discusses the state of European research in historical climatology. This field of
science and an overview of its development are described in detail. Special attention is …

Instrumental observations, and reconstructions, of global and hemispheric temperature
evolution reveal a pronounced warming during the past∼ 150 years. One expression of this …

" The Unending Frontier brings into focus the staggering environmental changes that came
with the creation of the early modern world economy. John Richards assembles material …

The 2003 heat wave that affected much of Europe from June to September bears a close
resemblance to what many regional climate models are projecting for summers in the latter …

This paper reviews the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which
natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic …

This paper examines the evidence for climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean for the
period 200–800 AD and offers hypotheses on the role of climatic fluctuations in the societal …

Temperature reconstructions from Europe for the past 500 years based on documentary and
instrumental data are analysed. First, the basic documentary data sources, including …

Monthly temperature series for Central Europe back to AD 1500 are developed from
documentary index series from Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic (1500–1854) …

Marine sediments act as the ultimate sink for organic carbon, sequestering otherwise rapidly
cycling carbon for geologic timescales,. Sedimentary organic carbon burial appears to be …