Tinted detail of a photo: Weathered limestone cliff built of hundreds of thin stacked layers like a pile of pancakes, grey at the top and orange-brown below, with a small dark pool in a hollow.
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CYCLIM: cycle counting a faster way

CYCLIM: cycle counting a faster way

As we try to predict what will happen under increasing anthropogenic climate change, climate models can only get us so far. Another key is understanding past changes in the Earth’s climate. To do this, palaeoclimatologists turn to natural archives (e.g., sediment cores and speleothems) and extract records of past variability using their properties, such as …[Read More]