Reconstructing the Australasian monsoon over the last 40,000 years using speleothems and palaeoclimate modelling

• Main Author: Krause, Claire Elizabeth
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Climate; palaeoclimate; paleoclimate; speleothem; stalagmite; monsoon; Sulawesi; convection; Pacific; Sheffield; Sunda; ice core; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/104839

Deep atmospheric convection over the western equatorial Pacific occurs at the junction of the rising limbs of the meridional Hadley cells and the Pacific Walker circulation, making it one of the most atmospherically dynamic regions on Earth. Here, interactions between the Australasian monsoon and at...