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Paleomagnetic Data Hint at Link from Earth’s Core to Continents

by Bas den Hond 15 June 20177 October 2021

Earth’s magnetic field waxes and wanes as supercontinents form and break up, suggests a new study postulating a direct connection between our planet’s crust and its core.

Editors' Vox

A Sea Change in Paleoceanography

by E. Thomas 22 May 20174 February 2018

The Editor-in-Chief of Paleoceanography explains that the journal is changing its name to Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology to reflect the evolution of science in this field.

New research links ocean acidification and its effect on extinction events to better understand Earth’s ancient seas.

Research Spotlights

Exploring Ancient Ocean Acidification in the Rock Record

by A. Branscombe 10 March 201715 November 2021

Scientists studying Earth's ancient oceans use a new method to measure ocean acidification and its effect on extinction events.

Scientists look at corals for clues to past climate trends.

Research Spotlights

Corals Reveal Ancient Ocean Temperatures in Great Barrier Reef

by Sarah Stanley 27 October 2016

Old coral colonies suggest that a prehistoric warming event called the mid-Holocene Thermal Maximum may have occurred earlier than previously thought.

Variations in rock hold clues to the movement of the intertropical convergence zone and how it may have influenced the Earth’s climate. Title tag: Variations in rock hold clues to the movement of the intertropical convergence zone and how it may have influenced the Earth’s climate.

Research Spotlights

Simulating the Climate 145 Million Years Ago

by S. Hall 10 October 2016

A new model shows that the Intertropical Convergence Zone wasn't always a single band around the equator, which had drastic effects on climate.

Climate variability governs the position of the southern edge of the Greenland ice sheet near Kangerlussuaq.

Science Updates

Comprehensive Earth System Models of the Last Glacial Cycle

by M. Latif, M. Claussen, M. Schulz and T. Brücher 23 September 2016

Much of modern climate science fails to consider millennium-scale processes, many of which may prove to be important for predicting the climate trajectory in the shorter term.

Aerial view of Orakei basin, near Auckland, New Zealand, where a research team took core samples near the center of a maar, an ancient volcanic explosion crater.

Science Updates

Probing the History of New Zealand's Orakei Maar

by P. C. Augustinus 20 September 201626 September 2016

A team of scientists drilled into the bed within a northern New Zealand explosion crater lake to gain insights into volcanic hazards and past climates.

Research Spotlights

Adapting Weather Forecasting Techniques to Paleoclimate Studies

by Terri Cook 17 June 201617 June 2016

First results of the Last Millennium Climate Reanalysis Project demonstrate the potential of the method to improve historical climate estimates by linking proxy data with climate models.