P2C2: ENSO Paleoclimatology in Queensland, Australia

提供资金，以开发复制，多世纪的树木年轮宽度和内到跨年度的氧同位素代理记录的降水在北昆士兰州，澳大利亚从种植园树木样本和长寿的野生标本的热带马蹄莲和南洋杉。该项目的首要科学目标是建立一个可靠的热带树木气候数据档案，这些数据没有形成典型的年度生长带。 该研究区域受到厄尔尼诺-南方涛动（ENSO）活动的强烈影响，以及对农业和水资源产生巨大影响的长期干旱。更广泛的影响涉及强有力的国际合作，支持研究生和博士后学者，并为古气候数据分析带来不同的定量视角。

Funding is provided to develop replicated, multi-century tree-ring width and intra-to-inter annual oxygen isotopic proxy records of precipitation in North Queensland, Australia from plantation tree samples and long lived wild specimens of Callitris intratropica and Araucaria cunninghamii. The overarching scientific goal of the project is to develop a reliable archive of climate data from tropical tress for which classic annual growth bands are not formed. The region of study is strongly affected by El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) activity, as well as longer term droughts with great impact on agriculture and water resources.The broader impacts involve strong international collaboration, supporting a graduate student and post-doctoral scholar, and bringing a different quantitative perspective to the analysis of paleoclimate data.