Please join us and register for the now rescheduled History and Climate Change Workshop of Spring 2022, on Wednesday, May 5th, at 4pm, featuring Columbia's Rhiannon Stephens and Jason Smerdon, who will lead A Discussion on Building a Climate and History Network at Columbia.
Fayerweather Hall, Room 513
1180 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Historical climatology can dramatically extend the climate record in many parts of the world. That has definitely been the case for Africa, where the instrumental record of many countries barely goes back to the early twentieth century. This talk will focus on five aspects of the historical climatology of Africa: information sources, quantification of non-instrumental data, development of a two-century semi-quantitative data set for the whole continent, and two unusual periods with the nineteenth century.
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