Landscape-climate disequilibrium in dune fields

该项目旨在预测被风吹过的地貌对气候变化的反应。该项目希望使用新的实验和理论进步来实现这一目标，然后将预测应用于覆盖澳大利亚表面三分之一的沙丘地带，以产生关于过去是什么气候塑造了沙丘的新知识，以及它们将如何应对人为气候变化。该项目的预期成果将加强与学科领先的国际研究人员的合作，并在澳大利亚发展全球独一无二的实验室实验能力。这将极大地改善对沙地对未来气候的响应的预测，从而为理解澳大利亚的环境变化提供重大好处。

This project aims to predict how wind-blown landscapes respond to changes in climate. This project expects to use novel experiments and theoretical advances to meet this aim, then apply the prediction to the dune fields which cover a third of Australia's surface to generate new knowledge on what climate shaped them in the past, and how they will respond to anthropogenic climate change. Expected outcomes of this project will strengthen collaboration with discipline-leading international researchers and develop a globally-unique laboratory experimental capability in Australia. This should provide significant benefits to understanding environmental change in Australia by vastly improving predictions of dune-field response to future climate.