
Qin Tao
Doctoral student

Large-scale weather patterns have strong impacts on wind strength and direction. It has been proposed that weather patterns will change due to global warming. However, it is difficult to attribute short-term change in weather to climate change due to the short period of instrumental observations.
In my PhD project, we will combine geological archives, with climate model output to develop unique seasonally resolved climate field reconstructions for the North Atlantic region. Using this baseline of weather patterns covering the past millennium we will evaluate state-of-the-art climate models in terms of skill in reproducing past and present weather and wind. The end goal is to provide improved future scenarios with maps of wind strength and direction using the best performing models.
Supervisors: Jesper Sjolte (main supervisor, LU); Raimund Muscheler (LU).
Publications
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Atmospheric and Deposition Responses of 10Be to Volcanic Eruptions Inferred From the Aerosol-Climate Model ECHAM6.3-HAM2.3-SALSA2.0 : 10Be
Minjie Zheng, Raimund Muscheler, Anton Laakso, Florian Adolphi, Zhengyao Lu, et al.
(2026) Geophysical Research Letters, 53
LetterClimate field reconstructions for the North Atlantic region of annual and seasonal resolution spanning CE 1241–1970
Jesper Sjolte, Qin Tao
(2026) Climate of the Past, 22 p.915-933
ArticleDistinct winter North Atlantic climate responses to tropical and extratropical eruptions over the last millennium in PMIP simulations and reconstructions
Qin Tao, Cheng Shen, Raimund Muscheler, Jesper Sjolte
(2025) Climate of the Past, 21 p.2561-2578
ArticleSolar, Atmospheric, and Volcanic Impacts on 10Be Depositions in Greenland and Antarctica During the Last 100 Years
Minjie Zheng, Florian Adolphi, Chiara Paleari, Qin Tao, Tobias Erhardt, et al.
(2023) Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128
ArticlePersistent Model Biases in the Spatial Variability of Winter North Atlantic Atmospheric Circulation
Qin Tao, Jesper Sjolte, Raimund Muscheler
(2023) Geophysical Research Letters, 50
ArticleTree-ring reconstructed diurnal temperature range on the eastern Tibetan plateau and its linkage to El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Qin Tao, Qi Bin Zhang, Xing Chen
(2021) International Journal of Climatology, 41 p.1696-1711
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