[Aqualist] Extension of Abstract due date for the 2013 AOGS Meeting (Feb 8)

[Patrick Moss]

Hello All,

Just letting everyone know that the abstract deadline has been extended (to Feb 8) for the 2013 AOGS meeting in Brisbane from June 22 to 24 (http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2013/public.asp?page=home.htm). In particular, there are two sessions that may be of interest (and which I am both a co-convenor of) and details are below:

BG 7 Late Quaternary environments of temperate Australasia and relationships with the tropical Indo-Pacific region

Temperate Australasia (incorporating southern Australia and New Zealand) lies between the Indo-Pacific tropical heat engine and the cold waters of the Southern Ocean. With contemporary environmental changes within the region there are clear links to the tropical Indo-Pacific region through atmospheric teleconnections, particularly the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). This session will focus on environmental change within the temperate region of Australasia over the past 50,000 years and how the tropical heat engine of the Indo-Pacific region may have influenced these alterations. We invite papers that provide late Quaternary multi-proxy datasets (terrestrial and/or marine) and/or records with improved age control from the temperate regions of Australasia; quantitative estimates (including modelling) of late Quaternary environmental variables from the temperate region; and papers that are providing an understanding of climatic relationships between the temperate areas of Australasia and the tropical Indo-Pacific region, including the ENSO and the IOD phenomena.

IG 17 Late Quaternary evolution of the tropical monsoon systems in Asia and Australasia and linkages to high latitude climate change.

The tropical monsoon systems of South Asia, East Asia and Indonesia-Indo China-Australia are critical components of the global circulation system but the long term history and drivers of many of these systems are poorly understood. The teleconnections to and from the monsoons and the lags and leads associated with these connections are also debated. A particular gap in understanding are the roles of decadal, centennial and longer scale oscillatory systems in modulating the monsoons. This session will focus on the position of the ITCZ and the variability and extent of influence of the three major monsoon systems of our region: the Indian, East Asian and Australian-Indonesian-Indo China, over the past 50 ky. We invite papers on palaeoclimatological reconstructions of changes in monsoon systems from high resolution records such as corals and speleothems and lower resolution proxies, modelling of monsoon long-term behaviour and papers that seek to develop an understanding of climate links between the high latitudes and the monsoons, including investigations of lags and leads in teleconnections.

Patrick


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Dr Patrick Moss
School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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