Are Northern- And Southern-Hemisphere Climates Synchronised on Orbital Timescales? New Insight Into Earth's Climate History

Grant number: DE120102530 | Funding period: 2012 - 2016

Completed

Abstract

This project will generate a very high (1-100 year) resolution palaeoclimate record in order to test whether southern hemisphere ice age climate changes 1.5 million years ago were synchronised with the northern hemisphere. This will provide a critical test of theories on the mechanisms driving glacial- interglacial climate changes.

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