2025
Editor's highlight: Revised Emissions Show Higher Cooling in 10th Century Eruption, EOS, 16 May 2025, AGU.
Fuglestvedt, H. F. et al. (2025). Revisiting the 10th‐century Eldgjá eruption: Modeling the climatic and environmental impacts. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL110507. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110507.
2024
Loftsgarden and Iversen (2024). The Impact Of The 6th Century Crisis – Exploring Burials as a Proxy For Population Dynamics in Iron Age Scandinavia. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2024.2412018.
Hutchison et al. (2024). High‐Resolution Ice‐Core Analyses Identify the Eldgjá Eruption and a Cluster of Icelandic and Trans‐Continental Tephras Between 936 and 943 - CE. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres - Wiley Online Libary. Volume 129, Issue 16: e2023JD040142.
van Dijk et al. (2024) High-frequency climate forcing causes prolonged cold periods in the Holocene. Commun Earth Environ, 5, 242. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01380-0.
Gabriel et al. (2024) Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period. Commun Earth Environ, 5, 194. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01350-6.
Fuglestvedt et al. (2024). Volcanic forcing of high-latitude Northern Hemisphere eruptions | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (nature.com). npj Climate and Atmospheric Science volume 7, Article number: 10.
Zhuo et al. (2024). Initial atmospheric conditions control transport of volcanic volatiles, forcing and impacts (copernicus.org). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Volume 24, issue 10, pp: 6233–6249.
Arthur et al. (2024). The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD). The Holocene, ff10.1177/09596836231225718ff. ffhal-04432297.
2023
Ballo et al. (2023). Using microcomputed tomography (μCT) to count varves in lake sediment sequences: Application to Lake Sagtjernet, Eastern Norway. Quaternary Geochronology, Volume 75, 101432, ISSN 1871 1014, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2023.101432.
Loftsgarden & Solheim (2023). Uncovering population dynamics in Southeast Norway from 99 1300 BC to AD 800 using summed radiocarbon probability
distributions. In M. Ødegaard & I. Ystegaard (Eds.), Settlement and landscape from the Bronze Age to the Renaissance in the Nordic Countries (1700 BC–AD 1600) (pp. 99-112). Sidestone Press, Leiden. ISBN 978-94-6427-042-6.
van Dijk, Gundersen et al. (2023). Climatic and societal impacts in Scandinavia following the 536 and 540 CE volcanic double event. Clim. Past, 19, 357–398, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-357-2023.
Outreach: The Vikings project is one of the highlighted research projects in the SIGMA 2 NRIS's Annual report 2022. Title; Volcanic eruptions and Viking society.
2022
van Dijk (2022). Tale of Fire and Ice: How clusters of large volcanic eruptions shaped climate and societies of the mid- to late-Holocene, PhD thesis, MetOs, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo.
Bajard et al (2022). Climate adaptation of pre-Viking societies. Quaternary Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107374.
van Dijk et al. (2022). Was there a volcanic-induced long-lasting cooling over the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-6th–7th century?, Clim. Past, 18, 1601–1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1601-2022.
Gundersen (2022). Iron Age Vulnerability. The Fimbulwinter hypothesis and the archaeology of the inlands of eastern Norway. PhD thesis, KHM, University of Oslo.
2021
ter Schure (2021), Dung, Dirt & DNA: unearthing past and present biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding. PhD thesis, IBV, University Oslo.
ter Schure et al (2021). Anthropogenic and environmental drivers of vegetation change in southeastern Norway during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107175
de Bode, Anna (2021). A pollen-based reconstruction of the paleoenvironment and cultural landscape in Southeastern Norway from the Iron Age to the Middle Ages. Bachelor thesis, Archaeology, University Leiden, https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3209493.
Abbott et al (2021). Cryptotephra from the Icelandic Veiðivötn 1477 CE eruption in a Greenland ice core: confirming the dating of volcanic events in the 1450s CE and assessing the eruption's climatic impact, Clim. Past, 17, 565–585, DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-565-2021.
2020
Aukan, Ingvild (2020). Sea-ice Response to the 536/540 CE Double Volcanic Eruption Event, Master thesis, MetOs, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo.
2019
Solheim & Iversen (2019). The mid-6th century crises and their impacts on human activity and settlements in southeastern Norway, In Niall Brady & Claudia Theune (ed.), SETTLEMENT CHANGE ACROSS MEDIEVAL EUROPE OLD PARADIGMS AND NEW VISTAS. Sidestone Press. ISBN 978-90-8890-806-4. PP 423 - 434.
Loftsgarden (2019). Ferd og frakt over fjell og vidde. Primitive Tider. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/pt.7555
Toohey et al (2019). Disproportionately strong climate forcing from extratropical explosive volcanic eruptions. Nature Geoscience, Vol. 12, pages 100–107. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0286-2