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Extending a first-principles primary production model to predict wheat yields. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
20th February 2020

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

Posted on
21st January 2020

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 >

Brierley et al. “Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations” now available in CoP Discussions by Sandy P. Harrison

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

Posted on
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

The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru

Posted on
10th August 201930th October 2020

Sandy Harrison and Laia Comas Bru attended the 20th INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress between 25th and 31st July 2019 in Dublin (Ireland) to represent the SPECIAL research…Read More >

The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru

Recent global and regional trends in Wildfire behaviour. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
9th July 2019

In 2017, Andela et al. (Science) indicated that there had been a global decline in burnt are over the last two decades and specifically attributed this to anthropogenic activities. Furthermore,…Read More >

Recent global and regional trends in Wildfire behaviour. By Sandy Harrison

SPECIAL, CRANE and LANDCOVER6k synergies meeting. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
10th June 201915th June 2020

Sandy Harrison and Laia Comas-Bru hosted a meeting in Reading this week bringing together members of the PAGES LandCover6k group and the CRANE and CLASS projects to explore synergies in…Read More >

SPECIAL, CRANE and LANDCOVER6k synergies meeting. By Sandy Harrison

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

Tsinghua Tiger Team. By Sandy Harrison

Posted on
7th November 201815th November 2018

I have spent the last three weeks working at Tsinghua University in Beijing, as part of my on-going Chinese High End Expert appointment. During this time, I’ve been working with…Read More >

Tsinghua Tiger Team. By Sandy Harrison

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