Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450358

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0450358

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Uncoupling past salinity and temperature signals in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool: implications for climate change in the Australian region. The tropical oceans and in particular the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, immediately to Australia's north, play a key role in modulating global and Australian climate through El-Niño and related phenomena. Using a new microanalysis approach to analyse individual foraminifera from deep-sea cores, we will reconstruct past salinity and temperature variability within the Warm Pool, and determine changing rainfall patterns and, ENSO and monsoon behaviour under climate conditions that lie outside modern records. This information is vital for understanding past climate and predicting the future intensity and frequency of El-Niño related drought and wet cycles in Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $280,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology Not Elsewhere Classified | Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Geochemistry | Inorganic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate variability | Other | Climate change |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Climate variability | Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Geochemistry | Geology Not Elsewhere Classified | Inorganic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Other

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