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Published: Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:18

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

Highlights include details of the new ACME working group, the call for new working groups, submit abstracts by 31 July to four PAGES sessions at the AGU in December, many recent products, PAGES working group news and meeting announcements, ECN updates, and other relevant information.

Historical climatology paper

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Published: Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:18

Members of the PAGES 2k Network PALEOLINK project published a new paper yesterday in Climate of the Past which investigates the research potential of historical climatology.

"The weather behind words – new methodologies for integrated hydrometeorological reconstruction through documentary sources" by Salvador Gil-Guirado, Juan José Gómez-Navarro, and Juan Pedro Montávez, presents a new methodology (COST) that allows the performance of climate reconstructions with monthly resolution.

The variability of the climatic series obtained are coherent with previous studies. The new proposed method is objective and is not affected by social changes, which allows the study of regions with different languages and cultures.

Access the paper here.

Find out more about the PALEOLINK project, and sign up to its mailing list, here.

New ACME working group

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Published: Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:51

PAGES is pleased to announce the launch of the new working group Arctic Cryosphere Change and Coastal Marine Ecosystems (ACME).

The aim of this working group is to assess and refine available marine proxies that can be used to reconstruct past cryosphere changes and their ecosystem impacts. A particular focus will be placed on the techniques and the quality of data, and on the establishment of new protocols to enable more reliable reconstructions, through close dialogue with numerical ecologists and environmental monitoring community.

Find out more about ACME, and join its mailing list, here.

Climate and cave drip water

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Published: Monday, 08 July 2019 17:36

The world's first global analysis, based on data from 163 drip sites in 39 caves across five continents, has found that stalagmites can assist in tracking past rainfall patterns.

Andy Baker et al.'s recent paper in Nature Communications investigates how climate affects the oxygen isotope composition of cave drip water.

Ideas in this paper were developed thanks to discussions with members of PAGES' SISAL working group. Find out more about SISAL, and sign up to the mailing list, here.

Spanish funding success

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Published: Thursday, 27 June 2019 15:35

PAGES congratulates 2k Network coordinator Belen Martrat on the recently announced success of her Spanish funding proposal.

Martrat's successful I-LINK proposal, through the national scientific research council (CSIC), is for the IBCC-lo2k project (IBerian Climate Change paleoarchive - synthesis and stewardship of land-ocean data, taking the past 2000 years (2k) as a reference).

The common objective of the project is to synthesize and preserve the climate measurements of the past, integrating land and ocean data of the Iberian region, taking the historical period (last 20 centuries) and beyond as a reference to connect with the instrumental data, in a global context of climate change.

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Published: Wednesday, 19 June 2019 16:18

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

Highlights include the full chronological listing of PAGES sessions at the 20th INQUA Congress in July, the new "Find data" website tab, PAGES working group news and meeting announcements, recent products, IPCC updates, ECN updates, and other announcements.