Dr Nils Weitzel
BSc, MSc, BSc, PhD
Expertise
Current positions
Marie Curie Research Fellow
School of Geographical Sciences
Contact
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Research interests
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Temporal and spatial structure of climate variability
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Glacial-interglacial climate and vegetation variability
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Abrupt climate change
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Statistical climate reconstructions from pollen records
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Climate field reconstructions with Bayesian hierarchical models
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
MSCA Fellowship - N Weitzel - Utilising palaeobotanical data to calibrate the response of vegetation to carbon dioxide in Earth system models
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/10/2024 to 30/09/2026
Publications
Selected publications
08/04/2024Towards spatio-temporal comparison of simulated and reconstructed sea surface temperatures for the last deglaciation
Climate of the Past
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales
Nature Geoscience
The deglacial forest conundrum
Nature Communications
Recent publications
09/01/2025cupsm v1.0.0
Atmospheric and Oceanic Pathways Drive Separate Modes of Southern Hemisphere Climate in Simulations of Spontaneous Dansgaard‐Oeschger‐Type Oscillations
Geophysical Research Letters
Large-scale vegetation shifts during substantial warming — Proxy-based biome reconstructions of MIS 6 and MIS 5e in Europe
Quaternary Science Reviews
Patterns of changing surface climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to present in transient model simulations
Climate of the Past
State Dependency of Dynamic and Thermodynamic Contributions to Effective Precipitation Changes
Journal of Climate
