Historical Climatology: Past and Future

Historical climatology came to life about fifty years ago. Currently, this research field is being studied by a few historians as well as geographers and it is subdivided into three parts:

1) Into the reconstruction of past climates on the basis of direct and indirect information from written sources (in particular, reconstructions of temperature and precipitation series from proxy information). In this aspect, historical climatology is a subfield of paleoclimatology;
2) into historical climate impact research;
3) into the history of science and cultural history of climate.

All three areas will be subject of the conference and will be discussed, both, in the context of the general development of the field of climatology, as well as in the context of anthropogenic climate change. The first section of the conference will be dedicated to presenting the state of the art while later sections will portray future perspectives of historical climatology. In sum, the conference is a strategy meeting, which aims at providing a handbook-like overview over the research field, as well as augmenting the organization and networking of the scholars involved.

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