EditorialThe AUSTRALASIAN-INTIMATE project special volume
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The INTIMATE project
This special issue, produced by the members of the Australasian INTegration of Ice core, MArine and TErrestrial records (AUS-INTIMATE) group, represents the culmination of a project spanning just on ten years. INTIMATE was first established as a core programme of the INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission in 1995 at the XIVth INQUA Congress in Berlin and aimed to establish a more detailed knowledge of the nature, timing and regional-to-global extent of climatic and environmental changes associated with
Australasian-INTIMATE
Over the years, there have been several attempts to bring together the multiple lines of evidence to synthesise the history of climate change in the Australasian region over the last 30,000 yr. After the success of CLIMAP (CLIMAP Project Members, 1981), the CLIMANZ (CLImate Mapping of Australia and New Zealand project) meeting was held in 1981, with the aim of mapping quantitative estimates of climate change (temperature and precipitation) at key sites during important time slices (32 ± 5,
NZ-INTIMATE
Initial activities of the NZ-INTIMATE group were directed towards (1) to identifying key New Zealand onshore and offshore climate records for the last 30,000 years, and (2) to improve procedures for correlating the records and for dating them more precisely. Two national workshops were subsequently convened, and were attended by over 50 NZ researchers from every institution in NZ engaged in Quaternary research (Alloway, 2004; Alloway and Shulmeister, 2005). As an output of the 2005 workshop,
OZ-INTIMATE
The first attempt by OZ-INTIMATE to synthesize the climatic patterns of the Australian region in the 30,000–8000 yr interval, was made at a workshop hosted by AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering) at Lucas Heights in 2004. This was presented at the AQUA meeting in Cradle Mountain, 2004 (Haberle et al., 2005) and published the following year (Turney et al., 2006). Although a significant effort was made to integrate marine, terrestrial and ice-core records, the paucity
Special volume contributions
One of the final meetings was an AUS-INTIMATE session at the INQUA Congress in Bern (2011) entitled: “Linking Southern Hemisphere multiproxy records and past circulation patterns: AUS-INTIMATE & wider southern connections” convened by Drew Lorrey and Tim Cohen where a total of 23 presentations were given (see Reeves et al., 2011). This special issue was conceptualised at this meeting with ten of the papers in this volume having their genesis there. In addition, the AUS-INTIMATE group wanted a
Where to now?
The North Atlantic INTIMATE group has found that oxygen isotope stratigraphy from Greenland ice cores serves well to define an event stratigraphy for that region. However, there are no good reasons why the Australasian region should use a stratigraphy based on a Greenland ice core record. Part of the remit of the AUS-INTIMATE project was to establish a climate event stratigraphy for the Australasian region to enable comparison with the North Atlantic INTIMATE stratigraphy. Strictly speaking, it
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by INQUA through PALCOMM project numbers 0406 & 0806. AINSE, GNS and AQUA provided generous support by hosting several meetings. We especially thank all of the members of AUS-INTIMATE who have contributed time and data over the last 10 years. Lastly, we would like to thank Editor-in-Chief Prof. Colin Murray-Wallace together with Debbie Barrett and Timothy Horscroft at Elsevier for facilitating the special issue.
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