Journal articles
This research contributes to the objectives of Q-MARE (a PAGES working group).
Furong Li and Marie-José Gaillard conceptualized and coordinated the study as a contribution to the PAGES working group “LandCover6k”.
The data used in this study were extracted from WALIS, a sea-level database interface developed by the ERC Starting Grant WARMCOASTS (ERC-StG-802414) in collaboration with PALSEA (PAGES/INQUA) working group.
The development of the WALIS visualization interface was sponsored by the PAGES “Data Stewardship Scholarship” given to Sebastian Garzòn.
This review is a product of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies (CRIAS) working group. It is not associated with any conference. We thank the reviewers and editors for their valuable comments on the manuscript.
The authors would like to thank PAGES (Past Global Changes) for supporting the CRIAS working group in this research.
This paper presents a novel approach to assimilate climate information contained in chronicles and annals from the 15th century to generate climate reconstructions of the Burgundian Low Countries, taking into account uncertainties associated with the descriptions of narrative sources. Our study aims to be a first step towards a more quantitative use of available information contained in historical texts, showing how Bayesian inference can help the climate community with this endeavor.
The work profited from discussions at the CVAS working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) programme.
This research benefited from participation in the Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) and the Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies (CRIAS) working groups of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project.
This is a contribution to the PAGES Working Group on Quaternary Interglacials (QUIGS).
The authors acknowledge PALSEA, a working group of the International Union for Quaternary Sciences (INQUA) and Past Global Changes (PAGES), which in turn received support from the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
We thank two anonymous reviewers for providing comments that greatly improved the manuscript. We also thank Andrew Kerr for their editorial handling of the manuscript. We also thank the SISAL project, and international PAGES working group, for compiling and providing access to the SISAL database v1.