Scheduled special issues
The following special issues are scheduled for publication in CP:
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The increasing publication of large-scale syntheses of vegetation reconstructions and the steadily growing ability to perform long-term transient and sophisticated past time-slice Earth system model simulations allow for more and more detailed analyses of the large-scale vegetation transitions and their effect on climate. However, previous studies also reveal that new metrics are needed to quantitatively compare the more complex reconstructions and model results.
With this special issue, we would like to bundle reconstructions, vegetation simulations and comparison tools. We invite all papers on the broad theme of past vegetation dynamics and their interaction with climate. This includes (a) vegetation simulations of various time intervals, (b) regional to global data–model or model–model comparison studies, (c) development of data–model comparison tools and techniques, and (d) vegetation–climate dynamics inferred from compilations of regional to global vegetation records. Any other related topic (past land use or past fire dynamics) is also welcome. Data compilation products may also be considered if the compiled data are integrated and used to address specific questions about past vegetation dynamics.
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Two closely coordinated groups (one from the USA and the other from Europe) are revisiting the Camp Century sub-ice sediment and the silty ice zone just above it using a wide variety of analytical techniques to make inferences about ice sheet behaviour, palaeo-climate, and palaeo-ecology as well as sediment transport and sourcing. The paper that kicked this off was in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2 years ago: "A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century" (Christ et al., 2021).
Talking among the 20+ lead investigators, we decided that the papers coming out of multiple, coordinated investigations of this historic (and still unique) ice core would be very useful to the broader community if they could be gathered into a special issue. Having these papers together would increase their impact and accessibility. Because of the wide variety of investigations being conducted on the core materials, a combined special issue including papers from both The Cryosphere and Climate of the Past will generate the most contributions and the largest readership.
Reference:
Christ, A. J., Bieman, P. R., Schaefer, J. M., Dahl-Jensen, D., Steffensen, J. P, Corbett, L. B., Peteet, D. M., Thomas, E. K., Steig, E. J., Rittenour, T. M., Tison, J.-L., Blard, P.-H., Perdrial, N., Dethier, D. P., Lini, A., Hidy, A. J., Caffee, M. W., and Southon, J.: A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 118, e2021442118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021442118, 2021.
2023
Two closely coordinated groups (one from the USA and the other from Europe) are revisiting the Camp Century sub-ice sediment and the silty ice zone just above it using a wide variety of analytical techniques to make inferences about ice sheet behaviour, palaeo-climate, and palaeo-ecology as well as sediment transport and sourcing. The paper that kicked this off was in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2 years ago: "A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century" (Christ et al., 2021).
Talking among the 20+ lead investigators, we decided that the papers coming out of multiple, coordinated investigations of this historic (and still unique) ice core would be very useful to the broader community if they could be gathered into a special issue. Having these papers together would increase their impact and accessibility. Because of the wide variety of investigations being conducted on the core materials, a combined special issue including papers from both The Cryosphere and Climate of the Past will generate the most contributions and the largest readership.
Reference:
Christ, A. J., Bieman, P. R., Schaefer, J. M., Dahl-Jensen, D., Steffensen, J. P, Corbett, L. B., Peteet, D. M., Thomas, E. K., Steig, E. J., Rittenour, T. M., Tison, J.-L., Blard, P.-H., Perdrial, N., Dethier, D. P., Lini, A., Hidy, A. J., Caffee, M. W., and Southon, J.: A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 118, e2021442118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021442118, 2021.
2022
The increasing publication of large-scale syntheses of vegetation reconstructions and the steadily growing ability to perform long-term transient and sophisticated past time-slice Earth system model simulations allow for more and more detailed analyses of the large-scale vegetation transitions and their effect on climate. However, previous studies also reveal that new metrics are needed to quantitatively compare the more complex reconstructions and model results.
With this special issue, we would like to bundle reconstructions, vegetation simulations and comparison tools. We invite all papers on the broad theme of past vegetation dynamics and their interaction with climate. This includes (a) vegetation simulations of various time intervals, (b) regional to global data–model or model–model comparison studies, (c) development of data–model comparison tools and techniques, and (d) vegetation–climate dynamics inferred from compilations of regional to global vegetation records. Any other related topic (past land use or past fire dynamics) is also welcome. Data compilation products may also be considered if the compiled data are integrated and used to address specific questions about past vegetation dynamics.