Insights into the terminal pleistocene climate of Australia from high resolution climate modelling.

ABSTRACT: Interpretations of the palaeoclimate at the end of the deglaciation over Australia suggest that conditions were becoming warmer, but there is an inconsistent picture of the monsoon and its impacts. This understanding can be improved using Earth System Models, but these are too coarse in resolution to fully interrogate the changes in the monsoon and associated climate experienced by early Aboriginal populations. Here we present the first downscaled climate modelling results at high resolution of Sahul-Australia in the terminal Pleistocene (12,000 years before present). The simulations were performed using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model downscaled from the Community Earth System Model (CESM) and compared to pre-industrial (1850 CE) simulations. Results show that the monsoon

SUBMITTER: Lowry AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11923217 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature