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 >
climate reconstruction
What are the drivers of regional-scale speleothem oxygen isotope trends? By Sarah Parker
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 >
The impact of methodological decisions on climate reconstructions using WA-PLS. By Mark Turner
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >