Late-quaternary paleoclimates of the southern tropical Andes and adjacent regions

摘要

Paleoclimate archives from the Andes of South America contain records of tropical climate variability ranging from glacial-interglacial variations in mean climate to interannual changes such as El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. This rich mosaic of information can be used to look at long-term trends in climatic change in the tropics as well as higher-resolution events that have had impacts on prehistoric and modern cultures. This special issue is a compendium of papers that are an outgrowth of the workshop, 'Paleoclimates of the Central Andes', held 11-16 January 2000 at the University of Arizona, convened by J. Betancourt, J. Quade, and G. Seltzer and funded by the US NSF Earth System History program and the InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research.