OA18
Low-latitude and high-latitude climates and linkages in the Asia Oceania Sector in the late Quaternary

Main Organiser
Paul Hesse
Dept of Physical Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
phesse@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au

Co-Organiser(s)
James Shulmeister
Dept of Geology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
james.shulmeister@canterbury.ac.nz

Guo Zhengtang
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
ztguo@95777.com

Brief Description
The Asia-Oceania region is host to the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and the tropical monsoon systems associated with it which have a wide impact on regional and global climate, climate variability and ocean circulation. The effects of this tropical climate system are also felt in
mid and high latitudes of both hemispheres, which are also impacted by polar weather systems. We invite original research papers dealing with palaeoclimatic reconstructions of the tropical (monsoonal) climate system and the warm pool, high latitude climate systems or their interaction in the mid-latitudes of the Asia-Oceania region. Papers may include proxy evidence, modelling results or model validation using proxy data. This session is an activity of the Austral-Asia Pole Equator Pole (PEP 2) Transect project.