Climate of the Past (CP)

Co-Editors-in-Chief:

Carlo

 

Barbante

, 

Thorsten

 

Kiefer

, 

Marie-France

 

Loutre

 &

Denis-Didier

 

Rousseau

Open Access – Public Peer-Review & Interactive Public Discussion – Personalized Copyright under a Creative Commons License – Moderate Article Processing Charges

Indexed in  Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) ,  Scopus ,  ADS ,  Current Contents ,  GeoRef  and  J-Gate . Included in the  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  as well as in the  Bodleian Library (UK) ,  Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (D)  and  Library of Congress (USA) . Long-term e-archived in  Portico and  CLOCKSS .

Aims and Scope

Climate of the Past (CP) is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of research articles, short communications and review papers on the climate history of the Earth. CP covers all temporal scales of climate change and variability, from geological time through to multidecadal studies of the last century. Studies focussing mainly on present and future climate are not within scope.

The main subject areas are:

• reconstructions of past climate based on instrumental and historical data as well as proxy data from marine and terrestrial (including ice) archives;
• development and validation of new proxies, improvements of the precision and accuracy of proxy data;
• theoretical and empirical studies of processes in and feedback mechanisms between all climate system components in relation to past climate change on all space and time scales;
• simulation of past climate and model-based interpretation of palaeo climate data for a better understanding of present and future climate variability and climate change.

Climate of the Past has an innovative two-stage publication process which involves a scientific discussion forum and exploits the full potential of the Internet to:

• foster scientific discussion;
• enhance the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance;
• enable rapid publication;
• make scientific publications freely accessible.

In the first stage, papers that pass a rapid access-review by one of the editors are immediately published on the Climate of the Past Discussions (CPD) website. They are then subject to Interactive Public Discussion, during which the referees' comments (anonymous or attributed), additional short comments by other members of the scientific community (attributed) and the authors' replies are also published in CPD. In the second stage, the peer-review process is completed and, if accepted, the final revised papers are published in CP. To ensure publication precedence for authors, and to provide a lasting record of scientific discussion, CPD and CP are both ISSN-registered, permanently archived and fully citable.

Issuing Body

Climate of the Past (CP) and Climate of the Past Discussions (CPD) are published by the Copernicus GmbH (Copernicus Publications) on behalf of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

CP
ISSN 1814-9324
eISSN 1814-9332
http://www.clim-past.net

CPD
eISSN 1814-9359
http://www.clim-past-discuss.net