Testing the hypothesis of synchronous inter-hemispheric climatic change during the Last Termination (20,000-10,000 years ago)

该项目产生的结果将使人们更好地了解澳大利亚地区对一系列不同气候条件的敏感性（远远超出历史数据集记录的敏感性）。我们将以最后一个冰期（2万至1万年前）结束时的气候为重点，研究澳大利亚地区变化的时间、速度和幅度，并测试这种变化是否与南半球和北半球中纬度和高纬度地区的其他记录相一致。研究结果将为了解澳大利亚当前和未来的气候变化提供一个相当好的背景。

The results generated in this project will provide a greater understanding of the sensitivity of the Australasian region to a range of different climatic conditions (far beyond that recorded in historical datasets). Focussing on climate at the end of the last ice age (20,000-10,000 years ago) we will investigate the timing, rate and magnitude of change in the Australasian region and test whether the variability was in phase with other records from the mid- and high-latitudes of the Southern and Northern Hemisphere. The results will provide a considerably improved context for understanding present and future climate change in Australia.