Last millennium northern hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: The long term context

R Wilson, K Anchukaitis, KR Briffa, U Büntgen… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Large-scale millennial length Northern Hemisphere (NH) temperature reconstructions have
been progressively improved over the last 20 years as new datasets have been developed …

Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales

T Laepple, E Ziegler, N Weitzel, R Hébert… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of the characteristics of natural climate variability is vital when
assessing the range of plausible future climate trajectories in the next decades to centuries …

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

AP Williams, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, BI Cook… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Severe and persistent 21st-century drought in southwestern North America (SWNA)
motivates comparisons to medieval megadroughts and questions about the role of …

Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

ER Cook, R Seager, Y Kushnir, KR Briffa… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Climate model projections suggest widespread drying in the Mediterranean Basin and
wetting in Fennoscandia in the coming decades largely as a consequence of greenhouse …

ModE-RA: a global monthly paleo-reanalysis of the modern era 1421 to 2008

V Valler, J Franke, Y Brugnara, E Samakinwa, R Hand… - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Modern Era Reanalysis (ModE-RA) is a global monthly paleo-reanalysis
covering the period between 1421 and 2008. To reconstruct past climate fields an offline …

Famines in medieval and early modern Europe—Connecting climate and society

FC Ljungqvist, A Seim, D Collet - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The article evaluates recent scholarship on famines in Europe during the medieval and early
modern periods (c. 700–1800), synthesizing the state‐of‐the‐art knowledge and identifying …

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) … - Science, 2023 - science.org
The geological record encodes the relationship between climate and atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) over long and short timescales, as well as potential drivers of evolutionary …

Fennoscandian tree-ring anatomy shows a warmer modern than medieval climate

J Björklund, K Seftigen, M Stoffel, MV Fonti, S Kottlow… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Earth system models and various climate proxy sources indicate global warming is
unprecedented during at least the Common Era. However, tree-ring proxies often estimate …

The influence of sampling design on tree‐ring‐based quantification of forest growth

C Nehrbass‐Ahles, F Babst, S Klesse… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tree‐rings offer one of the few possibilities to empirically quantify and reconstruct forest
growth dynamics over years to millennia. Contemporaneously with the growing scientific …

[HTML][HTML] Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

U Büntgen, D Arseneault, É Boucher, OV Churakova… - …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate reconstructions for the Common Era are compromised by the paucity of annually-
resolved and absolutely-dated proxy records prior to medieval times. Where reconstructions …