The Climate and Environmental Dynamics group in the Department of Geography conducts research on past, present and future climate and environmental variability. Understanding the mechanisms, evolution and impacts of global climate and environmental systems is central to the research of members of the Climate and Environment Dynamics Research Group. Their research explores how different components of the Earth’s system respond to, and modulate, climatic changes at various spatiotemporal scales. A wide range of local to global proxy data, as well as physical and biological models, is employed to illuminate processes acting within and between the earth’s atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere and cryosphere.
Among others, sedimentary and volcanic archives, tree-rings, historical sources and palaeoclimate models, are compiled and analysed to enhance our understanding of how past natural and anthropogenic climate variability has shaped our planet, and human history. Modern day environments, ecosystems and atmospheric processes are studied using both observational and modelling techniques, which allow us to understand the implications of long-term human-environment interactions and improve predictions of future climate change.
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