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Professor Iain Colin Prentice

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Chair in Biosphere and Climate Impacts
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2482c.prentice

 
 
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Location

 

2.3Centre for Population BiologySilwood Park

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Wei:2021:10.1017/qua.2020.108,
author = {Wei, D and Gonzalez-Samperiz, P and Gil-Romera, G and Harrison, SP and Prentice, IC},
doi = {10.1017/qua.2020.108},
journal = {Quaternary Research},
pages = {143--155},
title = {Seasonal temperature and moisture changes in interior semi-arid Spain from the last interglacial to the late Holocene},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.108},
volume = {101},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The El Cañizar de Villarquemado pollen record covers the last part of MIS 6 to the late Holocene. We use Tolerance-Weighted Averaging Partial Least-Squares (TWA-PLS) to reconstruct mean temperature of the coldest month (MTCO) and growing degree days above 0° C (GDD0) and the ratio of annual precipitation to annual potential evapotranspiration (MI), accounting for the ecophysiological effect of changing CO2 on water-use efficiency. Rapid summer warming occurred during the Zeifen-Kattegat Oscillation at the transition to MIS 5. Summers were cold during MIS 4 and MIS 2, but some intervals of MIS 3 had summers as warm as the warmest phases of MIS 5 or the Holocene. Winter temperatures declined from MIS 4 to MIS  2. Changes in temperature seasonality within MIS 5 and MIS 1 are consistent with insolation seasonality changes. Conditions became progressively more humid during MIS 5, and MIS 4 was also humid although MIS 3 was more arid. Changes in MI and GDD0 are anti-correlated, with increased MI during summer warming intervals. Comparison with other records shows glacial-interglacial changes were not unform across the circum-Mediterranean region but available quantitative reconstructions are insufficient to determine if east-west differences reflect the circulation-driven precipitation dipole seen in recent decades.
AU  - Wei,D
AU  - Gonzalez-Samperiz,P
AU  - Gil-Romera,G
AU  - Harrison,SP
AU  - Prentice,IC
DO  - 10.1017/qua.2020.108
EP  - 155
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 0033-5894
SP  - 143
TI  - Seasonal temperature and moisture changes in interior semi-arid Spain from the last interglacial to the late Holocene
T2  - Quaternary Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.108
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/84961
VL  - 101
ER  -
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