Reading Sheet – Noren et al., Millennial Scale Storminess

1. What’s the point of the paper? In other words, what’s the big idea the authors want to get across to you the readers?

2. List and describe the series methods used by the authors to determine that storminess had varied through the Holocene (last 10,000 years).

3. When was the New England climate stormier in the past and what else was happening around the world in terms of climate change at those times?

4. How many times did you need to read the paper before you understood what the authors were doing and their main points? How does the writing style of this paper differ from others you have read so far in this class.