The impact of India-Asia tectonics on climate

这个跨学科的项目旨在确定过去5000万年来构造对全球气候的控制。将运用构造学、古地理、气候模拟和高性能计算相结合的方法，系统地测试在重建印度支那区域及其陆地/海路形态和地形方面的悬而未决的问题，这些问题一直困扰着以前的古气候演变模型。该提案预计将在构造学、古气候模型和现代气候之间的区域产生新的知识。这为将构造-气候耦合解释为当前气候演变的驱动因素提供了重大好处。

This interdisciplinary project aims to determine the controls of tectonics on global climate in the last 50 million years. A combination of tectonics, paleogeography, climate modelling and high-performance computing will be applied to test systematically outstanding issues in the reconstruction of the Indo-Asia region and their landmass/seaways configurations and topography, which have bedevilled previous models of paleoclimate evolution. The proposal expects to generate novel knowledge in the area at the boundary between tectonics, paleoclimate modelling and present-day climate. This provides significant benefits to the interpretation of tectonics–climate coupling as current drivers of climate evolution.