Past and Present Variability in Monsoon Climate over the Himalayas Reconstructed from Tree-Rings

该奖项将创建一个可公开访问的喜马拉雅山和印度次大陆地区树木年轮年表数据库，这将有助于重建过去几个世纪的气候。 它还将资助对印度和不丹的考察，以进一步扩大树木年轮网络，并为统计分析这些实地考察的新树木年轮数据提供支持。 来自这一气候敏感地区的此类数据对于了解年度至世纪时间尺度上的全球气候变率至关重要。 在建立独特气候信息数据库的过程中，研究工作还将通过合作研究和组织国际研讨会，与在这一以前无法进入的地区工作的国际同事建立合作关系，以分享科学数据和想法。

This award will create a publicly accessible database of tree ring-based chronologies from the Himalayas and the Indian subcontinent regions that will help reconstruct climate over the past few centuries. It will also fund expeditions to India and Bhutan to further expand the tree-ring network and provide support to statistically analyze new tree ring data from these field expeditions. Such data from this climatically sensitive region is critical for understanding global climate variability on annual to century timescales. In the process of building a database of unique climate information, the research effort will also build collaborations with international colleagues working in this previously inaccessible region through cooperative research and the organization of an international workshop to share scientific data and ideas.