Australia as the world warmed: our regional response to rapid global warming events in the geological past

对下个世纪全球气候变化的预测是如此悲观，我们必须从250多万年前的上新世来寻找过去的类似情况。尽管如此，更新世晚期全球快速变暖的近期事件可能与未来几十年的预期大致相同。该项目将以高分辨率的绝对时间尺度研究过去澳大利亚区域温度和降雨对这些事件的响应。必要的分析技术是新的，这意味着以前无法尝试进行这种范围的研究，它们将在本项目下进一步发展。产出将包括空间格局和领先/滞后关系，可用于补充澳大利亚的气候模式预测。

Projections of global climate change over the next century are so negative we must look to the Pliocene Epoch, more than 2.5 million years ago, for past analogues. Nonetheless, more recent episodes of rapid global warming during the late Pleistocene might approximate those expected for coming decades. This project will study past Australian regional temperature and rainfall responses to these events, on a high-resolution absolute timescale. The necessary analytical technologies are new, meaning a study of this scope could not previously be attempted, and they will be further developed under this project. Outputs will include spatial patterns and lead/lag relationships which can be used to supplement climate model predictions for Australia.