In 2017, Andela et al. (Science) indicated that there had been a global decline in burnt are over the last two decades and specifically attributed this to anthropogenic activities. Furthermore,…Read More >
Science Meets Policy: The Interacademy Partnership Report on the Sustainable Development Goals. By Sandy Harrison
The Interacademy Partnership (IAP) has just released the final report of the working group on “Improving Scientific Input to Global Policy Making, with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development…Read More >
Team member highlight: Dongyang Wei
Dongyang joined the SPECIAL group as a graduate research assistant after completing her MRes degree in Ecosystem and Environmental Change from Imperial College London. During her stay in SPECIAL group,…Read More >
SPECIAL, CRANE and LANDCOVER6k synergies meeting. By Sandy Harrison
Sandy Harrison and Laia Comas-Bru hosted a meeting in Reading this week bringing together members of the PAGES LandCover6k group and the CRANE and CLASS projects to explore synergies in…Read More >
EGU 2019 Science Highlights. By Mark Turner
Sandy Harrison, Laia Comas Bru, and I went to the EGU in Vienna last week, I for the first time. It’s a huge and impressively wide-ranging conference (and in a…Read More >
EGU 2019. By Sandy Harrison
The SPECIAL group was part of the annual migration of European scientists to Vienna for the European Geosciences Union annual meeting again this year. The SISAL group was well represented…Read More >
CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop: assessing future climate change given climate variability, predictability and uncertainty. By Sandy Harrison
The CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop, held last week (25-28th March) in Barcelona, provided an opportunity for the various model intercomparison projects under the banner of CMIP to update the community…Read More >
New theoretic-based approach of quantifying climatic influences on tree-ring width. By Guangqi Li
The narrow-wide pattern of tree-ring width records past climate change, which makes tree-ring width a major archive for the palaeo climate reconstruction, especially for the last millennium. To use tree-ring…Read More >
FireMIP Sensitivity Experiments. By Sandy Harrison
It is very exciting to see that the FireMIP paper on the sensitivity of burnt area to environmental and anthropogenic controls, led by Lina Teckentrup, is now out in Biogeosciences…Read More >
Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change. By Laia Comas Bru
Although quantitative isotopic data from speleothems has been used to evaluate isotope-enabled model simulations in the past, currently no consensus exists regarding the most appropriate methodology through which achieve this….Read More >
