The much-anticipated second synthesis product from PAGES' former working group Global Monsoon is now in press in Earth-Science Reviews.
Pinxian Wang et al. address driving mechanisms of global monsoon (GM) variability and outstanding issues in GM science in their paper, titled "The global monsoon across time scales: mechanisms and outstanding issues."
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
A new PAGES working group launched today - PalEOclimate and the PeopLing of the Earth (PEOPLE 3000).
By integrating archaeological data, paleoecological data and dynamic modeling, PEOPLE 3000 aims to explain long-term patterns of growth in the consumption of energy in social-ecological systems, and the tipping points of these systems within the contexts of changing climates and environments, over the last 3000 years.
Learn more about the group and be involved! Sign up to their mailing list! All details here.
Results of a new VICS working group paper, published recently in Environmental Research Letters, emphasize the need for interdisciplinary approaches to climate change adaptation considering not only biophysical, but also social, economic and political aspects.
Severe climatic anomalies in summer 1816, partly due to the eruption of Tambora in April 1815, contributed to delayed growth and poor harvests of important crops in Central Europe. Coinciding with adverse socio-economic conditions, this event triggered the last subsistence crisis in the Western world.
Several PAGES working groups - PAGES 2k Network, DICE and PALSEA2 - will be conducting sessions at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans from 11-15 December 2017.
Have you considered submitting an abstract to one of the sessions?
The Fall Meeting is the largest preeminent Earth and space science meeting in the world.
Abstracts are due 2 August. All details here.
Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Darrell Kaufman, PAGES SSC member and one of the authors of the recent Scientific Data paper, "A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era", talks about the importance of community-endorsed data compilations in an accompanying "behind the scenes" blog post.
Kaufman, professor at Northern Arizona University, USA, describes how there's "more scientific ingenuity to a well-crafted data compilation and more coordination behind a community endorsed data product than meets the eye."
Read the blog, published on nature.com, here.
Another 2k Consortium member, Scott St George, has created a data location map here.
