Aim and Output of Workshop

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for climatologists and modellers to focus on new ideas, observations, analyses and theories of climate change to highlight ways of improving the understanding and prediction of future climate change and variability in the Australasian region. Outputs of the workshop will be threefold:

1. Comprehensive review of palaeoclimatic and historical datasets for the Australasian region including the quality of the observational data, site replication, spatial distribution of sites, chronologies and temporal resolution, calibration, qualitative vs. quantitative and extreme events

2. Role of modeling in integrating the palaeo and historical data to identify climatic mechanisms driving change across the Australasian region

3. Incorporation of climatic and modeling datasets to develop a record of climatic change in the Australasian region (including the last millennium)

The outcome of the meeting is intended to be an edited volume in the Journal of Quaternary Science.