Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

Nature geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-
temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions …

The variable European little ice age

H Wanner, C Pfister, R Neukom - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Little Ice Age (LIA), which lasted from about 1250 to 1860 AD, was likely the
coldest period of the last 8000 years. Using new documentary data and analyses of alpine …

Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

U Büntgen, O Urban, PJ Krusic, M Rybníček… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Europe's recent summer droughts have had devastating ecological and economic
consequences, but the severity and cause of these extremes remain unclear. Here we …

Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years

G Blöschl, A Kiss, A Viglione, M Barriendos, O Böhm… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
There are concerns that recent climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of
river floods in an unprecedented way 1. Historical studies have identified flood-rich periods …

[HTML][HTML] A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

PAGES2k Consortium - Scientific data, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to
placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present …

Estimating changes in global temperature since the preindustrial period

E Hawkins, P Ortega, E Suckling… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process
agreed in Paris to limit global surface temperature rise to “well below 2° C above pre …

European summer temperatures since Roman times

J Luterbacher, JP Werner, JE Smerdon… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The spatial context is critical when assessing present-day climate anomalies, attributing
them to potential forcings and making statements regarding their frequency and severity in a …

Internal and external forcing of multidecadal Atlantic climate variability over the past 1,200 years

J Wang, B Yang, FC Ljungqvist, J Luterbacher… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The North Atlantic experiences climate variability on multidecadal scales, which is
sometimes referred to as Atlantic multidecadal variability. However, the relative contributions …

What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review

O Kwiecien, T Braun, CF Brunello, P Faulkner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

The extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere temperature in the last two millennia: reconstructions of low-frequency variability

B Christiansen, FC Ljungqvist - Climate of the Past, 2012 - cp.copernicus.org
We present two new multi-proxy reconstructions of the extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere
(30–90° N) mean temperature: a two-millennia long reconstruction reaching back to 1 AD …