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The SPECIAL presence at the EGU General Assembly 2021 by Yicheng Shen

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12th May 202112th May 2021

The annual EGU General Assembly is Europe’s largest and most prominent geosciences event. The General Assembly also features a job centre, artists-in-residence, and a newsletter, EGU Today, which highlights sessions,…Read More >

The SPECIAL presence at the EGU General Assembly 2021 by Yicheng Shen

Classifying Land Use Practices in the Holocene by Sandy Harrison

Posted on
26th April 2021

The possibility that people had a significant effect on global climate in the pre-industrial era is still a matter for debate. The introduction and spread of agriculture during the Neolithic…Read More >

Classifying Land Use Practices in the Holocene by Sandy Harrison

Reconstructing long-term climate change in Spain by Sandy Harrison

Posted on
26th April 202126th April 2021

The SPECIAL group has a long history of working with scientists from the Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología in Zaragoza, first through the DINAMO3 project and now through the wonderfully named…Read More >

Reconstructing long-term climate change in Spain by Sandy Harrison

A framework for new analyses of lake status data by Sandy Harrison

Posted on
26th February 202126th February 2021

The Global Lake Status Database (GLSDB) has been widely used by the climate modelling community to evaluate model predictions of changing hydroclimate, most particularly changes in the monsoon regions in…Read More >

A framework for new analyses of lake status data by Sandy Harrison

An improved statistical approach for reconstructing past climates from biotic assemblages. By Mengmeng Liu

Posted on
11th January 2021

How to know the climates at the remote past? Unfortunately, we don’t have a time machine to go back and measure them. We have to infer them from some indicators….Read More >

An improved statistical approach for reconstructing past climates from biotic assemblages. By Mengmeng Liu

The SPECIAL presence at the PMIP2020 meeting

Posted on
1st December 2020

The Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison project (PMIP; https://pmip.lsce.ipsl.fr/), which began in the early 1990s to provide an efficient mechanism for coordinating palaeoclimate modelling activities, held it’s biannual meeting in Nanjing (China)…Read More >

The SPECIAL presence at the PMIP2020 meeting

What are the drivers of regional-scale speleothem oxygen isotope trends? By Sarah Parker

Posted on
24th July 2020

The first paper of my PhD, “A data-model approach to interpreting speleothem oxygen isotope records from monsoon regions on orbital timescales”, is available online at Climate of the Past Discussions…Read More >

What are the drivers of regional-scale speleothem oxygen isotope trends?  By Sarah Parker

Benchmarking is a necessary evil. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
20th July 202029th January 2021

The FireMIP paper describing the benchmarking of fire-enabled vegetation model simulations of the historic period is now out in Geoscientific Model Development (https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3299-2020). The team, led by Stijn Hantson, have…Read More >

Benchmarking is a necessary evil. By Sandy Harrison

Virtual visit to the Tsinghua Tiger Team. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
9th July 20209th July 2020

This month I have been in Tsinghua virtually, working on a daily basis with the team in Earth Sciences: Han Wang, Huiying Xu, Shengchao Qiao, Yanghan Ren, Ziqi Zhu and…Read More >

Virtual visit to the Tsinghua Tiger Team. By Sandy Harrison

The impact of methodological decisions on climate reconstructions using WA-PLS. By Mark Turner

Posted on
25th June 202025th June 2020

Finally… long in the making, my “method” paper is out in Quaternary Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.44 today. It could not have been completed without a great deal of help from my co-authors…Read More >

The impact of methodological decisions on climate reconstructions using WA-PLS. By Mark Turner

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