Primary Convener:
Chuan-Chou Shen, National Taiwan University

Convener:
Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Texas at Austin
Liangcheng Tan, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Na Wang, University of California Santa Barbara

Early Career Convener:
Na Wang, University of California Santa Barbara

Chair:
Chuan-Chou Shen, National Taiwan University, High‐precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC)
Na Wang, University of California Santa Barbara
Kaustubh Thirumalai, University of Texas at Austin
Liangcheng Tan, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tropical-subtropical climate changes during the Pleistocene and Holocene are manifested as pronounced reorganizations of rainfall patterns, in contrast to the dramatic temperature swings in the higher latitudes. Due to anthropogenic perturbations, future regional and global conditions, such as ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole, are more difficult to predict. Despite the increasing availability of tropical-subtropical paleoclimate records and model simulations, the physical mechanisms driving these changes are still unclear. We invite contributions exploring hydrological and monsoonal changes on annual-to-glacial timescales since the Pleistocene using natural archive data, new proxies, and climate simulations to reconstruct hydroclimate changes from local to regional scales in the tropics and their global links. We particularly welcome proxy-model syntheses exploring physical mechanisms.

Index Terms
4901 Abrupt|rapid climate change
4902 Anthropogenic effects
4934 Insolation forcing
4946 Milankovitch theory

Suggested Itineraries:
Climate Change and Global Policy
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering