Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP140102059
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Equator to Pole: Reconstructing tropical and Antarctic climate variability over the last millennium and their impacts on southern Australian rainfall. Water resource management is one of the greatest challenges facing sustainable agriculture and urban populations across southern Australia. Key players driving catastrophic droughts in southern Australia are the tropical Indian Ocean Dipole and polar Southern Annual Mode climate systems, which affect moisture availability and transport pathways. This collaborative research project draws together a uniquely-skilled research team to develop targeted coral, ice and cave reconstructions of these climate systems and their impacts on Australian rainfall through the last millennium. This fundamental new knowledge of the drivers of Australian rainfall variability will aid improved predictability of future changes in our valuable water resources.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 06-2017
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $480,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Palaeoclimatology | Quaternary Environments | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Climate Change Processes
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Natural Hazards in Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments | Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts) |
