Climate of the Past (CP)
Co-Editors-in-Chief: Martin Claussen, Gerald M. Ganssen, Denis-Didier Rousseau & Eric W. Wolff
Open Access – Public Peer-Review & Interactive Public Discussion – Personalized Copyright under a Creative Commons License
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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 Bibliothek (D) and Library of Congress (USA) . Long-term e-archived in Portico .
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.
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 ISSN: 1814-9340 eISSN: 1814-9359 http://www.clim-past-discuss.net |
