While nature preserves traces of past climates in ice cores, tree rings, and sediments, human records provide a unique and often overlooked perspective1. Diaries, harvest logs, ship logs2, art, and architecture can reveal how people experienced and responded to changing weather patterns over the course of centuries. These sources complement scientific data and provide context […]
Have you ever wondered how can ancient climates be studied if temperature records only go back about 300 years?1 To find out what the climate was like before then, we need to reconstruct it. This is usually done by a paleoclimatologist using a technique called ‘climate reconstruction’2. Paleoclimatology, the study of past climates, is a […]
Disclaimer: This blog entry is the second part of the Science Behind Vegetation Dynamics. As part of the comprehensive course Natural Climate and Human Impacts on Climate, given by Professor Dr. Wolfgang Buermann of the University of Augsburg, this series of entries are a compilation of a seminar on the fundamental mechanisms of planetary climate, methods […]
As part of the comprehensive course Natural Climate and Human Impacts on Climate, given by Professor Dr. Wolfgang Buermann of the University of Augsburg, this series of entries are a compilation of a seminar on the fundamental mechanisms of planetary climate, methods for reconstructing past climates, current consequences of global climate change, and other relevant […]
