The impact of India-Asia tectonics on climate

这个跨学科的项目旨在确定构造在过去5000万年中对全球气候的控制。构造学、古地理、气候建模和高性能计算的结合将应用于系统地测试重建印亚地区及其陆/海通道配置和地形的突出问题，这些问题一直困扰着以前的古气候演化模型。该提案希望在构造学、古气候模型和现代气候之间的边界地区产生新的知识。这为构造-气候耦合作为气候演化的当前驱动因素的解释提供了显著的好处。

This interdisciplinary project aims to determine the controls of tectonics on global climate in the last 50 million years. A combination of tectonics, paleogeography, climate modelling and high-performance computing will be applied to test systematically outstanding issues in the reconstruction of the Indo-Asia region and their landmass/seaways configurations and topography, which have bedevilled previous models of paleoclimate evolution. The proposal expects to generate novel knowledge in the area at the boundary between tectonics, paleoclimate modelling and present-day climate. This provides significant benefits to the interpretation of tectonics–climate coupling as current drivers of climate evolution.