The SPECIAL EPD Database: an expanded resource to document changes in vegetation and climate from pollen records from Europe, the Middle East and western Eurasia Description: Past changes in vegetation…Read More >
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Reconstructing long-term climate change in Spain by Sandy Harrison
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 >
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 >
Fossil pollen data for climate reconstructions from El Cañizar de Villarquemado Description: The sedimentary sequences from El Cañizar de Villarquemado provide a palaeoenvironmental record from the western Mediterranean Basin spanning…Read More >
The climatic space of European pollen taxa Description: Pollen data are widely used to reconstruct past climate changes, using relationships between modern pollen abundance in surface samples and climate at…Read More >
Multi-variable benchmark for Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations Description: Reconstruction of climate anomalies for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, c.a. 21,000 years ago), made by combining pollen based reconstructions (from…Read More >
Modern pollen data for climate reconstructions, version 1 (SMPDS) Description: The dataset contains percentage counts for the 247 most important European pollen taxa from individual modern samples from Europe…Read More >
EMBSeCBIO modern pollen biomisation Description: The data set contains metadata describing modern pollen samples for the Eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea-Caspian-Corridor region and biome reconstructions made using these data. Observed vegetation…Read More >
The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru
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 >
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 >
