Editorial: Recent results and new perspectives in historical climatology: An overview

Abstract

CC-BY35 EDITORIAL: Climate ReConstRuCtion and impaCts fRom the aRChives of soCieties This issue of the Past Global Changes Magazine presents the state of research in the field of historical climatology. Its articles examine different regions of the world and review innovative methodological approaches, recent scientific results, and analyses of new source materials.

New perspectives on historical climatology

“…These include a first concise undergraduate textbook for climate and global history (Lieberman & Gordon, 2018) and a new synthesis of European historical climatology of the past millennium by Pfister and Wanner (2021). The CRIAS working group has produced special issues on the global state of the field in historical climatology and international methods in reconstruction and impacts from archives of societies (Camenisch et al, 2020). Recent edited volumes have aimed for a global perspective on historical episodes.…”

“…Since the 2010s, the field has seen new and expanded initiatives. Projects such as Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) have continued the recovery and analysis of early instrumental weather data from around the world (Allan et al, 2016), and the Past Global Changes Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives Societies working group (CRIAS) has organized workshops and publications focused on international collaboration and methodological advances in the field (Camenisch et al, 2020). While work has continued through established schools of historical climatology, climate history has received numerous and diverse contributions from new teams and new disciplines.…”