Recent years have seen a growth in scholarship on the intertwined histories of climate,
science, and European imperialism. Scholarship has focused both on how the material …

Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice
Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and …

Agricultural production across eastern Australia and New Zealand is highly vulnerable to
drought, but there is a dearth of observational drought information prior to CE 1850. Using a …

The use of documentary evidence to investigate past climatic trends and events has become
a recognised approach in recent decades. This contribution presents the state of the art in its …

Australian seasonal rainfall is strongly affected by large-scale ocean–atmosphere climate
influences. In this study, we exploit the links between these precipitation influences, regional …

Historical climatology is commonly defined as the study of past climates based on
'documentary evidence'before the establishment of modern networks of meteorological …

This study presents a comprehensive assessment of high-resolution Southern Hemisphere
(SH) paleoarchives covering the last 2000 years. We identified 174 monthly to annually …

In part 1 of this study, Fenby and Gergis (Fenby C, Gergis J. 2012. A rainfall history of south-
eastern Australia Part 1: comparing evidence from documentary and palaeoclimate records …

Climate variability, climate change and extreme events pose risks that need to be quantified
and managed. Dry and hot conditions have notable impacts, and have a strong link to …

This study fills an important gap in south-eastern Australia's climate record by compiling
qualitative historical data from the time of first European settlement of Australia in 1788 until …