ESSC director Dr. Michael Mann and his colleagues have recently published a paper in Nature titled, “Atlantic Hurricanes and climate over the Past 1500 Years.” This article details their work in reconstructing the North Atlantic tropical system record for the past 1,500 years using a combination of sedimentary records and statistical models of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures and the North Atlantic Oscillation. NPR’s All Things Considered interviews Dr. Mann >>