Millennial climate change in southern Australia during the Last Glacial

突然的变暖和变冷事件是地球最近气候周期的一个持续特征。令人惊讶的是，人们对这些事件如何影响澳大利亚的气候知之甚少。该项目将在这些事件期间精确重建澳大利亚南部的降雨和温度趋势。这些新的陆地和海洋数据将与模式模拟进行比较，以确定北方半球突然的气候扰动到达我们地区的速度，以及发生这种情况的过程。研究结果将推进关于气候突变如何在全球传播的理论，并为澳大利亚自然历史上的顶点事件提供期待已久的气候背景。

Abrupt warming and cooling events were a persistent feature of Earth's most recent climate cycle. Surprisingly, little is known of how these events affected the climate of Australia. This project will produce precisely dated reconstructions of rainfall and temperature trends in southern Australia during these events. These new terrestrial and ocean data will be compared with model simulations to determine how rapidly abrupt climate perturbations in the Northern Hemisphere reached our region, and the processes by which this occurred. The results will advance theory on how abrupt climate change propagates globally and provide a long-awaited climatic context for capstone events in Australia's natural history.