Extratropical cyclones, a major phenomenon of the mid‐latitude atmospheric dynamics,
show strong variability over a range of time scales. Future projections hint at an increase of …

As efforts to recognize the Anthropocene as a new epoch of geological time are mounting,
the controversial debate about the time of its beginning continues. Here, we suggest the …

During the last twelve years the ELSA Project (Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive) at Mainz
University has drilled a total of about 52 cores from 27 maar lakes and filled-in maar basins …

The past provides evidence of abrupt climate shifts and changes in the frequency of climate
and weather extremes. We explore the nonlinear response to orbital forcing and then …

Extreme weather events in Europe are closely linked to anomalies of the atmospheric
circulation and in particular to circulation features like cyclones and atmospheric blocking. In …

Over the last 300 years, countless climatic variations at different places and times have been
witnessed, some affecting millions of people and changing the course of history, some going …

Studying a sufficiently large sample of extremes or analysing the statistics of their
occurrence, including trends, is hampered by the length of the existing observation-based …

Climate reconstructions have contributed tremendously to our understanding of changes in
the climate system and will continue to do so. However, in climate science the focus has …

A high resolution continuous reconstruction of last glacial wind directions is based on
provenance analysis of eolian sediments in a sediment core from the Dehner dry Maar in the …

Long‐term records are needed to investigate the impact of extreme events in the current
framework of global change. Sedimentary reconstruction with a high resolution remains …