Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup
Temperate Australia sits between the heat engine of the tropics and the cold Southern Ocean, encompassing a range of rainfall regimes and falling under the influence of different climatic drivers. Despite this heterogeneity, broad-scale trends in climatic and environmental change are evident over th...
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ftunivwollongong:oai:ro.uow.edu.au:smhpapers-2016 2023-05-15T13:38:58+02:00 Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup Petherick, L Bostock, H Cohen, T J Fitzsimmons, K Tibby, J Fletcher, M -S Moss, P Reeves, J Mooney, S Barrows, T Kemp, J Jansen, J Nanson, G Dosseto, A 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/1000 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2016&context=smhpapers unknown Research Online https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/1000 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2016&context=smhpapers Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A ka 30 oz climatic intimate records workgroup over past temperate australia synthesis Medicine and Health Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences article 2013 ftunivwollongong 2020-02-25T10:52:46Z Temperate Australia sits between the heat engine of the tropics and the cold Southern Ocean, encompassing a range of rainfall regimes and falling under the influence of different climatic drivers. Despite this heterogeneity, broad-scale trends in climatic and environmental change are evident over the past 30 ka. During the early glacial period (∼30–22 ka) and the Last Glacial Maximum (∼22–18 ka), climate was relatively cool across the entire temperate zone and there was an expansion of grasslands and increased fluvial activity in regionally important Murray–Darling Basin. The temperate region at this time appears to be dominated by expanded sea ice in the Southern Ocean forcing a northerly shift in the position of the oceanic fronts and a concomitant influx of cold water along the southeast (including Tasmania) and southwest Australian coasts. The deglacial period (∼18–12 ka) was characterised by glacial recession and eventual disappearance resulting from an increase in temperature deduced from terrestrial records, while there is some evidence for climatic reversals (e.g. the Antarctic Cold Reversal) in high resolution marine sediment cores through this period. The high spatial density of Holocene terrestrial records reveals an overall expansion of sclerophyll woodland and rainforest taxa across the temperate region after ∼12 ka, presumably in response to increasing temperature, while hydrological records reveal spatially heterogeneous hydro-climatic trends. Patterns after ∼6 ka suggest higher frequency climatic variability that possibly reflects the onset of large scale climate variability caused by the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Sea ice Southern Ocean University of Wollongong, Australia: Research Online Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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ka 30 oz climatic intimate records workgroup over past temperate australia synthesis Medicine and Health Sciences Social and Behavioral Sciences Petherick, L Bostock, H Cohen, T J Fitzsimmons, K Tibby, J Fletcher, M -S Moss, P Reeves, J Mooney, S Barrows, T Kemp, J Jansen, J Nanson, G Dosseto, A Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup |
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Temperate Australia sits between the heat engine of the tropics and the cold Southern Ocean, encompassing a range of rainfall regimes and falling under the influence of different climatic drivers. Despite this heterogeneity, broad-scale trends in climatic and environmental change are evident over the past 30 ka. During the early glacial period (∼30–22 ka) and the Last Glacial Maximum (∼22–18 ka), climate was relatively cool across the entire temperate zone and there was an expansion of grasslands and increased fluvial activity in regionally important Murray–Darling Basin. The temperate region at this time appears to be dominated by expanded sea ice in the Southern Ocean forcing a northerly shift in the position of the oceanic fronts and a concomitant influx of cold water along the southeast (including Tasmania) and southwest Australian coasts. The deglacial period (∼18–12 ka) was characterised by glacial recession and eventual disappearance resulting from an increase in temperature deduced from terrestrial records, while there is some evidence for climatic reversals (e.g. the Antarctic Cold Reversal) in high resolution marine sediment cores through this period. The high spatial density of Holocene terrestrial records reveals an overall expansion of sclerophyll woodland and rainforest taxa across the temperate region after ∼12 ka, presumably in response to increasing temperature, while hydrological records reveal spatially heterogeneous hydro-climatic trends. Patterns after ∼6 ka suggest higher frequency climatic variability that possibly reflects the onset of large scale climate variability caused by the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. |
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Petherick, L Bostock, H Cohen, T J Fitzsimmons, K Tibby, J Fletcher, M -S Moss, P Reeves, J Mooney, S Barrows, T Kemp, J Jansen, J Nanson, G Dosseto, A |
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Petherick, L Bostock, H Cohen, T J Fitzsimmons, K Tibby, J Fletcher, M -S Moss, P Reeves, J Mooney, S Barrows, T Kemp, J Jansen, J Nanson, G Dosseto, A |
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Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup |
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Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup |
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Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup |
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Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup |
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Climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate Australia - a synthesis from the Oz-INTIMATE workgroup |
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climatic records over the past 30 ka from temperate australia - a synthesis from the oz-intimate workgroup |
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