Controversies in the late Quaternary of the Southern Hemisphere

摘要

This special issue derives from a symposium held at the V1 Southern Connection Congress in Bariloche, Argentina, in February 2010. It was an initiative of the INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission project, 'Land-Ocean Correlation of Long Quaternary Records from the Southern Hemisphere on orbital and Sub-Orbital Time-scales' or 'PASH2' designed in response to the continually growing appreciation of the distinct but generally poorly understood contributions of Southern Hemisphere continents and oceans to the history of global climate. The abbreviation 'PASH2' was adopted to denote the connection with 'PASH', an acronym for a previous INQUA project 'Palaeoclimates of the Southern Hemisphere' conducted under the umbrella of its Global Change Programme.