PALSEA2 Greenland paper

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Published: Monday, 20 June 2016 17:14

A new PALSEA2 paper, titled "Diachronous retreat of the Greenland ice sheet during the last deglaciation" has recently been published in Quaternary Science Reviews.

The paper documents the spatial and temporal patterns of retreat of the Greenland ice sheet during the last deglaciation.

Contributors include working group leaders Anders Carlson and Glenn Milne, as well as PAGES' former co-chair Alan Mix.

Access the paper here.

Tambora publication released

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Published: Thursday, 09 June 2016 14:21

Repercussions from the Indonesian Tambora volcano eruption in 1815 were felt around the world.

A new publication, titled "Tambora and the 'Year Without a Summer' of 1816", has been released by the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research.

Written by Stefan Brönnimann and Daniel Krämer, it is the outcome of the PAGES-supported International Conference on Volcanoes, Climate, and Society: Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption, held April 2015 in Bern, Switzerland.

Access the special issue, which is available in English and German, here.

Corals paper from PALSEA2

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Published: Tuesday, 07 June 2016 12:41

A new paper involving members of PAGES' PALSEA2 working group, recently published in Quaternary Science Reviews, highlights the impact of fossil corals on studying past sea-level change.

Using a database containing extensive metadata to assist evaluations of dating quality, the authors demonstrate, with examples, how such information can help to evaluate sea-level reconstructions.

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Did climate turn back Mongols?

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Published: Wednesday, 01 June 2016 09:30

The sudden and currently unexplained withdrawal of the Mongol armies from Hungary in 1242 may have been influenced by environmental factors, according to a new study in Scientific Reports.
 
Euro-Med2k leader Ulf Büntgen co-authored the recent paper, "Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE", which examines the circumstances that arguably contributed to the Mongols abandoning Hungary and returning to Russia.
 
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Read the latest e-news

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Published: Thursday, 19 May 2016 10:58

Read about the latest PAGES news, meetings, and opportunities around the world in this month's e-news.

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2k Network temperature paper

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Published: Tuesday, 17 May 2016 10:37

A new contribution to the PAGES 2k Network from Hugues Goosse, titled "Reconstructed and simulated temperature asymmetry between continents in both hemispheres over the last centuries" was recently published in Climate Dynamics.

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