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

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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

Team member highlight – WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize 2020

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9th December 202010th December 2020

The WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize is awarded annually to an early- to mid-career researcher for their outstanding contribution to the Earth system science community, through achievements in data product generation, data…Read More >

Team member highlight – WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize 2020

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

Virtual visit to the Tsinghua Tiger Team. By Sandy Harrison

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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

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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

A Method for Generating Coherent Spatially Explicit Maps of Seasonal Paleoclimates From Site‐Based Reconstructions by Sandy P. Harrison

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16th January 202016th January 2020

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 >

A Method for Generating Coherent Spatially Explicit Maps of Seasonal Paleoclimates From Site‐Based Reconstructions by Sandy P. Harrison

UK-Russian researcher collaboration for improved understanding of global change in the North. The DIMA workshop. By David Kesner

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11th October 2019

Global change in the Anthropocene knows no political boundaries. We need to understand environmental dynamics on regional to global scales, to understand the implications of global change for the future…Read More >

UK-Russian researcher collaboration for improved understanding of global change in the North. The DIMA workshop. By David Kesner

“Climate Change: the FAQs” and CLIMOVAR workshop. By Laia Comas Bru

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8th October 201917th January 2020

What are the causes of climate change? And its consecuences? What can we do about it? These are some of the questions posed by Secondary School students about climate change…Read More >

“Climate Change: the FAQs” and CLIMOVAR workshop. By Laia Comas Bru

SPECIAL and the Tsinghua Tiger Team in Gongga Mountains. By Sandy Harrison

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11th September 201930th September 2019

The Gongga Mountains in Sichuan are foothills of the Tibetan Plateau and provide a very special opportunity to gather data on the environmental controls on leaf traits. Following a first…Read More >

SPECIAL and the Tsinghua Tiger Team in Gongga Mountains. By Sandy Harrison

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