Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include the deadline for new working group submissions, workshop financial support updates, PAGES working group news and meeting announcements, many recent products, ECN updates including the next webinar on 26 September, Future Earth and WCRP information, and other relevant opportunities.
The first version of a crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data has been discussed in a new Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology paper.
PAGES involvement, via our working groups and workshops, in the Paleoclimate Community reporTing Standards (PaCTS) project is highlighted in the "PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data" paper, written by Deborah Khider et al.
PaCTS captures which information should be included when reporting paleoclimate data, with the goal of maximizing the reuse value of paleoclimate datasets, particularly for synthesis work and comparison to climate model simulations. Initiated by the LinkedEarth project, the process to elicit a reporting standard involved an international workshop in 2016, various forms of digital community engagement over the next few years, and grassroots working groups.
PaCTS addresses the acute need for standardizing paleoclimate datasets to minimize "data wrangling", which is estimated to consume up to 80% of researcher time in some scientific fields.
The standards help meet the interoperability and reuse criteria and of FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), of which PAGES is an early signatory.
Access the early-access version here.
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Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.
Highlights include media interest in the recent PAGES 2k Network papers, the deadline for new working group submissions, many recent products, PAGES working group news and meeting announcements, ECN updates, the IPCC Working Group I survey, call for input at EGU 2020, the new Risk KAN program, and other relevant information.
Researchers from the PAGES 2k Network Euro-Med2k subgroup have published a paper on the association between summer temperature and drought across Europe over both short and long timescales.
Placing recent drought in a 12-century-long perspective, authors identified that throughout history northern Europe tends to get wetter and southern Europe tends to get drier during warmer periods. They also observe that recent changes in drought patterns are not yet unprecedented.
Project leader Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist said these new findings are important as we are able to see for the first time that the relationship between summer temperature and drought seen in modern instrumental measurements has persisted for at least 12 centuries. "We can also see that the 20th century wetter trend in the north and drier trend in the south is not unprecedented over this time perspective," he said.
The two PAGES 2k Network papers published last week in Nature and Nature Geoscience have attracted huge international media interest.
If you couldn't access the actual articles before, they're now publicly available using SharedIt. Click the links above to find the full-text, view-only versions.
Scientists from around the world, many not even involved in the studies, have welcomed the papers' findings.
Congratulations to (l-r) Qiuzhen Yin (2019 Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal For Outstanding Young Quaternary Scientist), PAGES Executive Director Marie-France Loutre (2019 INQUA Distinguished Service Medal) and Amaelle Landais (2017 Shackleton Medal) on their awards presented at the 20th INQUA Congress in Dublin, Ireland.
Read more about Dr Loutre's award here.
