Monsoon Dynamics, Predictability and Tropical Paleoclimate

Project Overview

The Asian-Australian monsoon is a dominant feature in our tropical climate. We plan to elucidate the monsoon’s predictability over 10 to 1000-year timescales. By pairing data from cave formations called speleothems with our climate models, we’re reconstructing the regional climate over the past 10,000 years. We hope to answer specific questions on how the monsoon has changed over the past 10,000 years and how it will behave in the future.