Using Pollen Records from New Zealand and Southern Chile to Reconstruct New Zealand Climate Variability over the Last 14,000 years

• Main Author: Jara Parra, Ignacio Alonso
• Other Authors: Newnham, Rewi
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Victoria University of Wellington 2016
• Subjects: Climate; Vegetation; New Zealand; Alpine Lake; Antarctic; Patagonia; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/5475

Climate variability in New Zealand (34-47°S), a long, narrow continental strip straddling the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, results largely from the interplay between sub-tropical and sub-Antarctic atmospheric and oceanic circulation systems. Despite their importance to present-day New Z...