COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Century-scale Variability in the Asian Southwest Monsoon

该奖项是为了表彰亚利桑那大学、路易斯安那州立大学和中国中央研究院之间的一个合作项目，该项目使用经过验证的方法，首次系统地研究了百年尺度的亚洲西南季风变化。该项目将重点关注西藏，在那里，早期的工作已经证明了强烈的季风影响，并且调查人员知道他们可以获得具有百年尺度变化特征的日期明确的湖泊沉积物记录。通过比较沿着一个敏感的东西气候梯度的高分辨率、多代理（沉积学、地球化学和古生态学）记录，他们将能够将区域（季风）气候信号与特定地点的环境影响分开。此外，他们将能够辨别任何观测到的季风事件是否具有时间侵入性，并能够量化三种不同的重要植被类型对世纪尺度气候事件的敏感性和反应速度。

This award is for a collaborative project (between University of Arizona, Louisiana State University, and Academia Sinica, China) to use proven methods to provide the first systematic study of century-scale SW Asian Monsoon variability. The project will focus on Tibet, where earlier work has demonstrated strong monsoonal influences, and where the investigators know they can obtain well-dated lake sediment records characterized by century-scale variability. By comparing high resolution, multiproxy (sedimentologial, geochemical and paleoecological) records along a sensitive east-west climate gradient, they will be able to separate the regional (monsoonal) climate signal from site-specific environmental influences. Moreover, they will be able to discern if any observed monsoonal events are time-transgressive or not, and also be able to quantify the sensitivity and rate of response of three different important vegetation types to century-scale climate events.