NEW ZEALAND PALEOCLIMATE RESEARCH WEBSITE
The New Zealand Paleoclimate Research website provides a gateway to
information and research on the climate history of the New Zealand region and
surrounding areas including Australia, Southwest Pacific and Antarctica.
The website is an initiative by an informal collective of scientists from
research institutions within and outside New Zealand (referred to here as the
"NZ paleoclimate community"). Our intention is that the website provides access
to scientific information on New Zealand's climate system and climate history.
New Zealand's climate record is an important link in the understanding of Southern
Hemisphere climate behaviour and global climate changes. Improved understanding
of past climatic conditions and the factors that control climate change will
provide a better scientific basis for anticipating or predicting future change,
as well as practical steps to improve New Zealand, and global, economic and
environmental resilience to climate change.
An overview of the importance of understanding past climates is given on the
Research pages.
The website is funded by the "Global Change through Time" (GCT) research
programme of GNS Science. Contributions from INQUA Commission for Stratigraphy
and Chronology and the Royal Society of NZ International Geosphere Biosphere (IGBP)
Committee assisted in the initiation of this website.
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