Sandy has just returned from a ten-day trip to Bangalore, which was originally planned to coincide with the PACMEDY stakeholder meeting in Pune and opportunities to give lectures at the…Read More >
Guest post – The SISAL working group. By Nikita Kaushal
February, 2020 marks the end of the first phase of the 3-year PAGES Working Group called SISAL. SISAL – Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis was the herculean effort lead by…Read More >
Extending a first-principles primary production model to predict wheat yields. By Sandy Harrison
Tsinghua Tiger Shengchao Qiao’s first paper is now out in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107932). In this paper, Shengchao has extended the P model to create a new model –…Read More >
Brierley et al. “Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations” now available in CoP Discussions by Sandy P. Harrison
There was a flurry of PMIP-related activity over the Christmas and New Year “holidays” because of the need to get papers describing experimental results that are going to be cited…Read More >
A Method for Generating Coherent Spatially Explicit Maps of Seasonal Paleoclimates From Site‐Based Reconstructions by Sandy P. Harrison
The good news this morning is that Sean’s paper describing the new method he’s developed to reconstruct palaeoclimate using data assimilation techniques has been published (open access, of course) In…Read More >
Launch of Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment, and Society written by Pablo Paiewonsky, Alexander Kuhn-Regnier and David Kesner
The launch of the new Leverhulme Centre was celebrated with a symposium on November the 13th, 2019, at Imperial College London. SPECIAL group members Alexander Kuhn-Regnier, David Kesner, Pablo Paiewonsky,…Read More >
On the road to the ERC Starting grant through the SPECIAL highway by Łukasz Pawlik
I’m happy to join the Special group and glad Professor Sandy Harrison agreed to be my supervisor during my stay here at the University of Reading. I currently work as…Read More >
Fossil pollen data for climate reconstructions from El Cañizar de Villarquemado Description: The sedimentary sequences from El Cañizar de Villarquemado provide a palaeoenvironmental record from the western Mediterranean Basin spanning…Read More >
The climatic space of European pollen taxa Description: Pollen data are widely used to reconstruct past climate changes, using relationships between modern pollen abundance in surface samples and climate at…Read More >
Multi-variable benchmark for Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations Description: Reconstruction of climate anomalies for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, c.a. 21,000 years ago), made by combining pollen based reconstructions (from…Read More >