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EGU 2019 Science Highlights. By Mark Turner

Posted on
18th April 201918th April 2019

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 Science Highlights. By Mark Turner

EGU 2019. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
16th April 2019

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 >

EGU 2019. By Sandy Harrison

CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop: assessing future climate change given climate variability, predictability and uncertainty. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
5th April 2019

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 >

CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop: assessing future climate change given climate variability, predictability and uncertainty. By Sandy Harrison

New theoretic-based approach of quantifying climatic influences on tree-ring width. By Guangqi Li

Posted on
22nd March 2019

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 >

New theoretic-based approach of quantifying climatic influences on tree-ring width. By Guangqi Li

FireMIP Sensitivity Experiments. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
18th March 201926th March 2019

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 >

FireMIP Sensitivity Experiments. By Sandy Harrison

Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change. By Laia Comas Bru

Posted on
11th March 201911th March 2019

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 >

Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change. By Laia Comas Bru

SISAL: Bringing Added Value to Speleothem Research. By Laia Comas Bru

Posted on
21st February 201911th March 2019

The introductory paper of the SISAL’s Special Issue in the open-access journal “Quaternary”, edited by Sandy Harrison and myself, is now published: https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/2/1/7. In this editorial paper, we discuss some…Read More >

SISAL: Bringing Added Value to Speleothem Research. By Laia Comas Bru

How does climate change in semi-arid Spain from 130,000 years ago? By Dongyang Wei

Posted on
18th February 201911th March 2019

Our paper “Climate changes in interior semi-arid Spain from the last interglacial to the late Holocene” is now online in Climate of the Past Discussions (https://www.clim-past-discuss.net/cp-2019-16/). In this paper, we…Read More >

How does climate change in semi-arid Spain from 130,000 years ago? By Dongyang Wei

LandCover6k European Land Use chapter meeting. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
8th February 201927th February 2020

LandCover 6k is an international initiative sponsored by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project (http://pastglobalchanges.org/landcover6k). One of the goals is to create a global data set of anthropogenic land use…Read More >

LandCover6k European Land Use chapter meeting. By Sandy Harrison

Four in one blow. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
1st February 201911th March 2019

I feel like the tailor in Grimm’s Das tapfere Schneiderlein today, with four papers being submitted in one day. Dongyang’s persistence on getting the Villarquemado climate reconstruction paper submitted before…Read More >

Four in one blow. By Sandy Harrison

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