{"id":617,"date":"2019-11-19T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/?p=617"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:55:33","slug":"smpds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/smpds\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"ep_tm_pagetitle rd_citation_left\" style=\"text-align: center\">Modern pollen data for climate reconstructions, version 3 (SMPDS)<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-415 \" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/Unorganized\/Modern-Pollen-dataset-1-1024x474.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/Unorganized\/Modern-Pollen-dataset-1-1024x474.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/Unorganized\/Modern-Pollen-dataset-1-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/Unorganized\/Modern-Pollen-dataset-1-768x356.png 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/Unorganized\/Modern-Pollen-dataset-1.png 1801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This dataset includes counts for 5,012 pollen taxa from modern samples collected worldwide, accompanied by detailed metadata for each site and entity. It is intended to support quantitative reconstructions of past climate and vegetation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to dataset:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/researchdata.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Harrison=3ASandy=3A=3A.html\"><span class=\"person_name\">Harrison, Sandy<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchdata.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Egbudom=3AMary-Ann=3A=3A.html\"><span class=\"person_name\">Egbudom, Mary-Ann<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchdata.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Villegas-Diaz=3ARoberto=3A=3A.html\"><span class=\"person_name\">Villegas-Diaz, Roberto<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2025): The SPECIAL Modern Pollen Data Set for Climate Reconstructions, version 3 (SMPDSv3). University of Reading. Dataset.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.001473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.001473<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/researchdata.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Villegas-Diaz=3ARoberto=3A=3A.html\"><span class=\"person_name\">Villegas-Diaz, Roberto<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchdata.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Harrison=3ASandy=3A=3A.html\"><span class=\"person_name\">Harrison, Sandy<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2022): The SPECIAL Modern Pollen Data Set for Climate Reconstructions, version 2 (SMPDSv2). University of Reading. Dataset.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.000389\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.000389<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"person_name\">Harrison, Sandy<\/span>\u00a0 (2019): Modern pollen data for climate reconstructions, version 1 (SMPDS). University of Reading. Dataset. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.194<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wei, D., Gonz\u00e1lez-Samp\u00e9riz, P., Gil-Romera, G., Harrison, S. P., and Prentice, I. C., (in review, 2019). Climate changes in interior semi-arid Spain from the last interglacial to the late Holocene, Clim. Past Discuss., <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/cp-2019-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/cp-2019-16<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern pollen data for climate reconstructions, version 3 (SMPDS) &nbsp; Description:\u00a0 This dataset includes counts for 5,012 pollen taxa from modern samples collected worldwide, accompanied by detailed metadata for each&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#112;&#97;&#108;&#97;&#101;&#111;&#99;&#108;&#105;&#109;&#97;&#116;&#101;&#47;&#115;&#109;&#112;&#100;&#115;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[52,29,46,54],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-database","tag-pollen","tag-resources","tag-smpds"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>- SPECIAL Palaeoclimate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/smpds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"- SPECIAL Palaeoclimate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Modern pollen data for climate reconstructions, version 3 (SMPDS) &nbsp; 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