Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Geophysical Union.

It publishes original research articles dealing with all aspects of understanding and reconstructing Earth's past climate and environments from the Precambrian to modern analogs.

[2] The founding editor-in-chief was James P. Kennett[3][4][2] and the journal is currently edited by Matthew Huber (Purdue University) .

[5] The journal is abstracted and indexed by GEOBASE, GeoRef, Scopus, and several CSA indexes.

[6] As of January 2014, the three most highly cited articles are:[7]