Research assistant in the SPECIAL group, Jierong Zhao, and SPECIAL group PI, Sandy Harrison, have recently released a pre-print that investigates the importance of CO₂ and climate in influencing changes…Read More >
New Publication on Global Greenness Trends and Patterns
We are pleased to share with you a new paper involving the lead PI of the SPECIAL group, Sandy Harrison. The paper outlines a new framework for modelling leaf area…Read More >
How Well Do Global Models Simulate Fire? A Deep Dive into CMIP6
Introduction Fire is a powerful force of nature and one of the most important disturbances in the Earth’s system. A recent scientific paper involving SPECIAL group PI Sandy Harrison, sheds…Read More >
A New Framework for Predicting Burnt Area
SPECIAL Group leader Sandy Harrison as involved with the publication of a new piece of work that outlines a framework to predict burnt area of wildfires using remote sensing data….Read More >
A Paleo-Science Approach to Fire Modelling: SPECIAL Group Visit to Bordeaux
One of our SPECIAL Group members Olivia Haas had the opportunity to travel to France to present her research. It is great to see our staff generating these international networks…Read More >
Digging into variable selection methods: Team training session
One of the benefits of belonging to a large research group such as SPECIAL, is the opportunity to draw upon, and learn from, the skills that other members of the…Read More >
Beijing: Centre of the Universe?
SPECIAL group leader Sandy Harrison and LEMONTREE/Leverhulme Project co-PI Colin Prentice are currently spending their normal month as “Distinguished Visiting Professors” at Tsinghua University this October. The plan was to…Read More >
LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshop Advancing Plant Pigment Research for Better Earth Monitoring
From September 25th to 27th, a new collaborative group of scientists gathered at the scenic Warbrook House Heritage Hotel in Hook, UK, for the LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshop. The goal?…Read More >
What does the next generation of fire models look like?
On the 16th of September the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Society and the Environment hosted a number of international visitors at Dartington Hall for a brainstorming session on global fire modelling. The meeting…Read More >
JULES Annual Meeting September 2024
Overview A number of SPECIAL group members work within the LEMONTREE project which aims to build a new model of the terrestrial biosphere. LEMONTREE is now moving into it’s implementation…Read More >