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Publications

Journal articles

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Scherer C, Ludlow F, Matthews AI, Hayes P, Klais R & Holm P (2024) A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE, The Holocene (link)
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Lücke LJ, Schurer AP, Toohey M, Marshall LR and Hegerl GC (2023) The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last millennium, Climate of the Past, 19 (5) (link)
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van Dijk E, Mørkestøl Gundersen I, de Bode A, Høeg H, Loftsgarden K, Iversen F, Timmreck C, Jungclaus J and Krüger K (2023) Climatic and societal impacts in Scandinavia following the 536 and 540 CE volcanic double event , Climate of the Past, 19 (link)
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Singh R, Tsigaridis K, LeGrande AN, Ludlow F and Manning JG (2023) Investigating hydroclimatic impacts of the 168–158 BCE volcanic quartet and their relevance to the Nile River basin and Egyptian history, Climate of the Past, 19 (link)
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Heli H, Stoffel M and Corona C (2022) Recession or resilience? Long-range socioeconomic consequences of the 17th century volcanic eruptions in northern Fennoscandia, Climate of the Past, 18(9) (link)
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Sigl M, Toohey M, McConnell JR, Cole-Dai J and Severi M (2022) Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth during the Holocene (past 11,500 years) from a bipolar ice core array, Earth System Science Data (link)
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Mackay H, Plunkett G, Jensen BJL, Aubry TJ, Corona C, Kim WM, Toohey M, Sigl M, Stoffel M, Anchukaitis KJ, Raible C, Bolton MSM, Manning JG, Newfield TP, Di Cosmo N, Ludlow F, Kostick C, Yang Z, McClung LC, Amesbury M, Monteath A, Hughes2 PDM, Langdon PG, Charman D, Booth R, Davies KL, Blundell A and Swindles GT (2022) The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic region, Climate of the Past, 18, 1475–1508 (link)
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Stoffel M, Corona C, Ludlow F, Sigl M, Huhtamaa H, Garnier E, Helama S, Guillet S, Crampsie A, Kleemann K, Camenisch C, McConnell J and Gao C (2022) Climatic, weather, and socio-economic conditions corresponding to the mid-17th-century eruption cluster, Climate of the Past, 18, 1083–1108 (link)
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Pearson C, Sigl M, Burke A,Davies S, Kurbatov A, Severi M, Cole-Dai J, Innes H, Albert PG and Helmick M (2022) Geochemical ice-core constraints on the timing and climatic impact of Aniakchak II (1628 BCE) and Thera (Minoan) volcanic eruptions, PNAS Nexus, pgac048 (link)
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White S, Moreno-Chamarro E, Zanchettin D, Huhtamaa H, Degroot D, Stoffel M and Corona C (2022) The 1600 CE Huaynaputina eruption as a possible trigger for persistent cooling in the North Atlantic region, Climate of the Past, 18, 739-757 (link)
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Plunkett G, Sigl M, Schwaiger HF, Tomlinson EL, Toohey M, McConnell JR, Pilcher JR, Hasegawa T & Siebe C
(2022) No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology, Climate of the Past, 18 (1), 45–65 (link)
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Stoffel M, Corona C, Ludlow F, Sigl M, Huhtamaa H, Garnier E, Helama S, Guillet S, Crampsie A, Kleemann K, Camenisch C, McConnell J & Gao C (2021) Climatic, weather and socio-economic conditions corresponding with the mid-17th century eruption cluster, Climate of the Past (link)
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Gao C, Ludlow F, Matthews JA, Stine AR, Robock A, Pan Y, Breen R, Nolan B and Sigl M (2021) Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse, Communications Earth & Environment, 2 (link)
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Timmreck C, Toohey M, Zanchettin D, Brönnimann S, Lundstad E and Wilson R (2021) The unidentified eruption of 1809: a climatic cold case, Climate of the Past, 17 (link)
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Niemeier U, Riede F & Timmreck C (2021) Simulation of ash clouds after a Laacher See-type eruption, Climate of the Past, 17(2), 633–652 (link)
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Abbott PM, Plunkett G, Corona C, Chellman NJ, McConnell JR, Pilcher JR, Stoffel M & Sigl M (2021) Cryptotephra from the Icelandic Veiðivötn 1477 CE eruption in a Greenland ice core: confirming the dating of volcanic events in the 1450s CE and assessing the eruption's climatic impact, Climate of the Past, 17(2), 565–585 (link)
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Wang Y, Shao X, Zhang Y & Li M (2021) The response of annual minimum temperature on the eastern central Tibetan Plateau to large volcanic eruptions over the period 1380–2014  CE, Climate of the Past, 17(1), 241-252 (link)
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Campbell BMS & Ludlow F (2020) Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, 120C, 159-252 (link)
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McConnell JR, Sigl M, Plunkett G, Burke A, Kim WM, Raible CC, Wilson AI, Manning JG, Ludlow F, Chellman NJ, Innes HM, Yang Z, Larsen JF, Schaefer JR, Kipfstuhl S, Mojtabavi S, Wilhelms F, Opel T, Meyer H and Steffensen JP (2020) Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom, PNAS, 117 (27) (link)
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Frugone-Álvarez M, Latorre C, Barreiro-Lostres F, Giralt S, Moreno A, Polanco-Martínez J, Maldonado A, Carrevedo ML, Bernárdez P, Prego R, Delgado Huertas A, Fuentealba M & Valero-Garcés B (2020) Volcanism and climate change as drivers in Holocene depositional dynamic of Laguna del Maule (Andes of central Chile – 36° S), Climate of the Past, 16, 1097–1125 (link)
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McConnell JR, Sigl M, Plunkett G, Burke A, Kim WM, Raible CC, Wilson AI, Manning JG, Ludlow F, Chellman NJ, Innes HM, Yang Z, Larsen JF, Schaefer JR, Kipfstuhl S, Mojtabavi S, Wilhelms F, Opel T, Meyer H & Steffensen JP (2020) Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom, PNAS, 117, 15443-15449 (link)
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Guillet S, Corona C, Ludlow F, Oppenheimer C & Stoffel M (2020) Climatic and societal impacts of a "forgotten" cluster of volcanic eruptions in 1108-1110 CE, Scientific Reports, 10, 6715 (link)
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Pinke Z, Pow S & Kern Z (2019) Volcanic mega-eruptions may trigger major cholera outbreaks, Climate Research, 79(2), 151-162 (link)
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Toohey M, Krüger K, Schmidt H, Timmreck C, Sigl M, Stoffel M & Wilson R (2019) Disproportionately strong climate forcing from extratropical explosive volcanic eruptions, Nature Geoscience, 12, 100-107 (link)
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Sigl M, Abram NJ, Gabrieli J, Jenk TM, Osmont D & Schwikowski M (2018) 19th century glacier retreat in the Alps preceded the emergence of industrial black carbon deposition on high-alpine glaciers, The Cryosphere, 12, 3311–3331 (link)
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Huhtamaa H & Helama S (2017) Distant impact: tropical volcanic eruptions and climate-driven agricultural crises in seventeenth-century Ostrobothnia, Finland, Journal of Historical Geography, 57, 40-51 (link)
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Toohey M & Sigl M (2017) Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth from 500 BCE to 1900 CE, Earth System Science Data, 9, 809-831 (link)
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Manning JG, Ludlow F, Stine AR, Boos WR, Sigl M and Marlon JR (2017) Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt, Nature Communications, 8 (link)
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Zambri B, LeGrande AN, Robock A & Slawinska J (2017) Northern Hemisphere winter warming and summer monsoon reduction after volcanic eruptions over the last millennium, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 122, 7971–7989 (link)
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Flückiger S, Brönnimann S, Holzkämper A, Fuhrer J, Krämer D, Pfister C & Rohr C (2017) Simulating crop yield losses in Switzerland for historical and present Tambora climate scenarios, Environmental Research Letters, 12, 74026 (link)
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Rao MP, Cook BI, Cook ER, D’Arrigo RD, Krusic PJ, Anchukaitis KJ, LeGrande AN, Buckley BM, Davi NK, Leland C & Griffin KL (2017) European and Mediterranean hydroclimate responses to tropical volcanic forcing over the last millennium, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 5104–5112 (link)

PAGES Magazine articles

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Michael Sigl, P.M. Abbott, F. Ludlow, F. Riede, M. Toohey and C. Vidal (2023) Moving forward by looking back: Past and future volcanic impacts on climate and society, Past Global Changes Magazine, 31(2), 125 (link)
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Vidal C, Toohey M, Sigl M, Anchukaitis K, Ludlow F & LeGrande A (2019) Understanding volcanic impacts through time, Past Global Changes Magazine, 27(2), 81 (link)
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Toohey M, Ludlow F, LeGrande A, Anchukaitis KJ & Sigl M (2016) Interdisciplinary views on the impacts of volcanic eruptions: from global to personal, Past Global Changes Magazine, 24(2), 78 (link)
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Toohey M, Sigl M, Ludlow F, LeGrande AN & Anchukaitis KJ (2016) Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society working group, Past Global Changes Magazine, 24(1), 29 (link)
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Allegra N. LeGrande and Kevin J. Anchukaitis (2015) Editorial: Volcanic eruptions and climate, Past Global Changes Magazine, 23(2), 46-47 (link)

PAGES Magazine

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Ailsa Chung, Niklas Kappelt, Florian Painer, Lison Soussaintjean, V. Holly L. Winton, Giulia Sinnl, Olivia L. Williams and I. Hernández-Almeida (2023) 31 (2) Young scientists at the leading edge of ice-core research, Past Global Changes Magazine, 31 (2), 57-130 (link)

Articles

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Guillet S, Corona C, Oppenheimer C, Lavigne F, Khodri M, Ludlow F, Sigl M, Toohey M, Atkins PS, Yang Z, Muranaka T, Horikawa N & Stoffel M (2023) Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of medieval volcanism , Nature, 616, 90-95 (link)

Special issues

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Crick L, Burke A, Hutchison W, Kohno M, Moore KA, Savarino J, Doyle EA, Mahony S, Kipfstuhl S, Rae JWB, Steele RCJ, Stephen R, Sparks J and Wolff EW (2021) New insights into the  ∼ 74 ka Toba eruption from sulfur isotopes of polar ice cores, Climate of the Past, 17 (5), 2119–2137 (link)
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Eds: Toohey M, Anchukaitis K, LeGrande AN, Ludlow F, Sigl M, Vidal C & Luterbacher J (2020) Interdisciplinary studies of volcanic impacts on climate and society, Climate of the Past (link)

Books and book chapters

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Bauch M (2019) Chronology and Impact of a Global Moment in the Thirteenth Century: The Samalas Eruption Revisited, 214-232 (link)
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Ludlow F & Crampsie A (2018) Climate, Debt and Conflict: Environmental History as a New Direction in Understanding Early Modern Ireland, 200-230 (link)
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Ludlow F & Travis C (2018) STEAM Approaches to Climate Change, Extreme Weather and Social-Political Conflict, 33-65 (link)
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Francis Ludlow and Charles Travis (2018) STEAM Approaches to Climate Change, Extreme Weather and Social-Political Conflict (link)
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Ludlow F & Crampsie A (2018) Environmental History of Ireland, 1550-1730, 671-704 (link)
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White, Sam (2017) The little ice age and Europe's encounter with North America (link)
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Sam White (2017) A Cold Welcome - The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America (link)

Podcasts

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Michael White (2017) Connecting with Keven Anukaitis, ForecastPod # 48 (link)

Meeting Products

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Toohey M, Ludlow F & LeGrande AN (2016) How Did Climate and Humans Respond to Past Volcanic Eruptions?, Eos, 97 (link)

Blogs

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LeGrande AN (2016) Volcanic eruptions: Reconciling past mismatches, Future Earth Blog (link)