Equator to Pole: Reconstructing tropical and Antarctic climate variability over the last millennium and their impacts on southern Australian rainfall

水资源管理是澳大利亚南部可持续农业和城市人口面临的最大挑战之一。导致南澳大利亚灾难性干旱的关键因素是热带印度洋偶极子和极地南方年模气候系统，它们影响水分的可用性和输送途径。这个合作研究项目汇集了一个独特的技术研究团队，以开发这些气候系统及其对过去一千年澳大利亚降雨的影响的有针对性的珊瑚，冰和洞穴重建。这一关于澳大利亚降雨变化驱动因素的基本新知识将有助于提高我们宝贵水资源未来变化的可预测性。

Water resource management is one of the greatest challenges facing sustainable agriculture and urban populations across southern Australia. Key players driving catastrophic droughts in southern Australia are the tropical Indian Ocean Dipole and polar Southern Annual Mode climate systems, which affect moisture availability and transport pathways. This collaborative research project draws together a uniquely-skilled research team to develop targeted coral, ice and cave reconstructions of these climate systems and their impacts on Australian rainfall through the last millennium. This fundamental new knowledge of the drivers of Australian rainfall variability will aid improved predictability of future changes in our valuable water resources.