PALAEOCLIMATES GROUP

CONTACT AND OTHER INFORMATION

This page gives information on the members of the Palaeoclimates Group, current publications, and how to contact us.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Current members
  • Affiliated members
  • Recent publications of group members
  • How to contact us
  • Information about this web page

CURRENT MEMBERS


Dr. Paul Valdes P.J.Valdes@Reading.ac.uk Ext: 6517 Head of Palaeoclimates group
Jake Badger J.Badger@Reading.ac.uk Ext: 7846
Richard Betts rabetts@meto.gov.uk
David Cameron swrcmron@Reading.ac.uk
Doug Clark D.B.Clark@Reading.ac.uk
Helen Craggs H.J.Craggs@Reading.ac.uk
Dr. Buwen Dong swsdong@met.Reading.ac.uk Ext: 4384
Dr. Nic Gedney N.Gedney@Reading.ac.uk Ext: 6507
Dr. Robin Glover R.W.Glover@Reading.ac.uk Ext: 4384
Dr. Masa Kageyama masa@met.Reading.ac.uk
Dr. Paul Markwick P.J.Markwick@Reading.ac.uk Ext: 4384 past climates, geology, palaeoecology, palaeogeography
Dr. Isabelle Marsiat marsiat@Reading.ac.uk Ext: 6507
Len Shaffrey L.C.Shaffrey@Reading.ac.uk
Matthew Woodman M.R.H.Woodman@Reading.ac.uk

Funding is currently from the NERC, EU, Royal Society, Hadley Centre, Institute of Hydrology, and DeBeers


AFFILIATED MEMBERS

Affiliated members: Prof. Bruce Sellwood and Prof. Bob Spicer and their groups


PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE PALAEOCLIMATES GROUP

Betts, R. A., P. M. Cox, S. E. Lee, and F. I. Woodward. Contrasting physiological and structural vegetation feedbacks in climate change simulations. Nature, 387:796-799, 1997

Dong, B.-W. and Valdes, P. J. 1995 Sensitivity studies of northern hemisphere glaciation using an atmospheric general circulation model. J. Climate. 8. 2471-2496.

Dong, B.-W., Valdes, P. J. and Hall, N. M. J. 1996 The changes of monsoonal climate due to Earth's orbital perturbations and ice age boundary conditions. Palaeoclimates-Data and modelling. 1, 203-240.

Dong, B.-W. and Valdes, P. J., 1997: Modelling the Asian summer monsoon rainfall and Eurasian winter/spring snow mass. Submitted to Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.

Dong, B.-W. and Valdes, P. J., 1997: PMIP simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum climates using the UGAMP GCM, Prescribed versus computed SSTs. Accepted by Clim. Dyn.

Dong, B.-W. and Valdes, P. J., 1997: Climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: Sensitivity to horizontal resolution using the UGAMP GCM. Draft available from authors.

Hall, N. M. J., Dong, B.-W. and Valdes, P. J 1996: Atmospheric equilibrium, instability and energy transport at the Last Glacial Maximum. Clim Dyn 12: 497-511

Hall, N. M. J., Valdes, P. J. and Dong, B.-W. 1996: The maintenance of the last great ice sheets: A UGAMP GCM study. J. Climate. 9, 1004-1019.

Harrison, S. P., Jolly, D., Laarif, F., Abe-Ouchi, A., Dong, B., Herterich, K., Hewitt, C., Joussaume, S., Kutzbach, J. E., Mitchell, J., de Noblet, N. and Valdes, P., 1997: Intercomparison of simulated global vegetation distribution in response to 6 kyr B. P. orbital forcing. To appear in J. of Climate.

Markwick, P.J. 1997: Fossil crocodilians as indicators of Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic climates: implications for using palaeontological data for reconstructing palaeoclimate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. In Press

Markwick, P.J., and D.B. Rowley, 1997: The geologic evidence for Triassic to Pleistocene glaciations: implications for eustacy. SEPM Special Paper. In Press.

Markwick, P.J., 1994: 'Equability,' continentality and Tertiary "climate": the crocodilian perspective. Geology, v.22, p.613-616.

Woodward, F.I., M.R.Lomas and R.A.Betts. Vegetation-climate feedbacks in a greenhouse world. Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society, B352, November 1997. (in press).


INFORMATION ABOUT THIS WEB PAGE

This web page was designed and constructed by Paul Markwick on an Apple Powerbook 5300 with Pagespinner 2.01.

Information and images on each page were provided by the members of the group. For information about the photographs used on this site please contact Dr Paul Markwick.


The Palaeoclimates Group,
Department of Meteorology,
University of Reading,
READING, RG6 6BB,
United Kingdom.

E-Mail:P.J.Valdes@Reading.ac.uk

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