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Overview

Danny McCarroll is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science. The subfields of their work include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Archeology, and Ecology.

The scientist's main research topics cover a broad range of areas related to climate and environmental history. These include Tree-ring climate responses, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Climate variability and models, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Maritime and Coastal Archaeology.

McCarroll has authored several recent papers featuring multidisciplinary and collaborative research. Notable publications include:

  • Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years (2023, Nature Geoscience)
  • Summer precipitation for the England and Wales region, 1201-2000 CE, from stable oxygen isotopes in oak tree rings (2020, Journal of Quaternary Science)
  • A ~700 years perspective on the 21st century drying in the eastern part of Europe based on δ18O in tree ring cellulose (2022, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Dating of non-oak species in the United Kingdom historical buildings archive using stable oxygen isotopes (2021, Dendrochronologia)
  • Oxygen isotope dating of oak and elm timbers from the portcullis windlass, Byward Tower, Tower of London (2020, Journal of Archaeological Science)

Frequent co-authors in McCarroll's body of work include Neil J. Loader, D. E. Davies, Giles Young, Roderick J. Bale, and D. H. Miles.

Research venues where McCarroll has regularly published are:

  • Vernacular Architecture
  • Dendrochronologia
  • The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

  • Stable isotopes in tree rings.

    Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Comparison of stable carbon isotope ratios in the whole wood, cellulose and lignin of oak tree-rings

    N.J. Loader;I. Robertson;I. Robertson;D. McCarroll

  • Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere

    Danny McCarroll;Mary H. Gagen;Neil J. Loader;Iain Robertson

  • Exorcising the `segment length curse': summer temperature reconstruction since AD 1640 using non-detrended stable carbon isotope ratios from pine trees in northern Finland

    Mary Gagen;Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Iain Robertson

  • Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests

    Matthias Saurer;Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;David C. Frank;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos

  • Multiproxy dendroclimatology: a pilot study in northern Finland

    Danny McCarroll;Risto Jalkanen;Sheila Hicks;Mervi Tuovinen

  • Stable carbon isotope ratios of Pinus sylvestris from northern Finland and the potential for extracting a climate signal from long Fennoscandian chronologies

    Danny McCarroll;Frank Pawellek

  • THE LAST ICE SHEET IN NORTH-WEST SCOTLAND: RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPLICATIONS

    Colin K. Ballantyne;Danny McCARROLL;Atle Nesje;Svein Olaf Dahl

  • A 1200-year multiproxy record of tree growth and summer temperature at the northern pine forest limit of Europe

    Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Risto Jalkanen;Mary H. Gagen

  • Multiple stable isotopes from oak trees in southwestern Scotland and the potential for stable isotope dendroclimatology in maritime climatic regions

    N.J. Loader;P.M. Santillo;J.P. Woodman-Ralph;J.E. Rolfe

  • Blue intensity in Pinus sylvestris tree-rings : developing a new palaeoclimate proxy

    Rochelle Campbell;Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Håkan Grudd

  • Clastic dykes in over-consolidated tills: evidence for subglacial hydrofracturing at Killiney Bay, eastern Ireland

    Kenneth F Rijsdijk;Geraint Owen;William P Warren;Danny McCarroll

  • Stable carbon isotopes from Torneträsk, northern Sweden provide a millennial length reconstruction of summer sunshine and its relationship to Arctic circulation

    N. J. Loader;G. H. F. Young;Håkan Grudd;D. McCarroll

  • Blue Reflectance Provides a Surrogate for Latewood Density of High-latitude Pine Tree Rings

    D. McCarroll;E. Pettigrew;A. Luckman;F. Guibal

  • Bayesian modelling the retreat of the Irish Sea Ice Stream

    Richard C. Chiverrell;Ian M. Thrasher;Geoffrey S. P. Thomas;Andreas Lang

  • Potential and Limitations of the Schmidt Hammer for Relative-Age Dating: Field Tests on Neoglacial Moraines, Jotunheimen, Southern Norway*

    Danny Mccarroll

  • Extracting Climatic Information from Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings

    Neil J. Loader;Danny McCarroll;Mary Gagen;Iain Robertson

  • A 500-year record of summer near-ground solar radiation from tree-ring stable carbon isotopes

    Giles H.F. Young;Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Andreas J. Kirchhefer

  • Deformation styles as a key for interpreting glacial depositional environments

    Danny McCarroll;Kenneth F. Rijsdijk

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil J. Loader
Neil J. Loader Swansea University
Iain Robertson
Iain Robertson Swansea University
Colin K. Ballantyne
Colin K. Ballantyne University of St Andrews
Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Christopher Bronk Ramsey University of Oxford
John A. Matthews
John A. Matthews Swansea University
Atle Nesje
Atle Nesje University of Bergen
James D. Scourse
James D. Scourse University of Exeter
Richard A. Shakesby
Richard A. Shakesby Swansea University
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge

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