Climatology Group
Mission: We study high-resolution climate variability through the analysis of tree rings and other palaeoclimate archives at regional to global scales. Instrumental climate data are evaluated and used for the calibration of these archives to reconstruct climate over the past couple hundred to thousand years. We teach introductory and methodological courses on climatology with emphasis on spatial patterns and long-term changes of climate and ecological variability.
Recent paper: New Alpine reconstruction
Calibration of tree-ring density data (blue) against regional instrumental data (red) to reconstruct pan-alpine summer temperatures back to 742 CE.
Details can be found here: Esper et al. (2025) Dendrochronologia 94, 126432