CTP West Tasmania Tree ring width, PAGES Australasia 2k Version Allen, K.J. Allen, K.J. PAGES 2k Network PAGES Australasia 2k earth science/paleoclimate/tree-ring (CTP West Tasmania>LATITUDE -42>LONGITUDE 146) This study presents a comprehensive assessment of high-resolution Southern Hemisphere (SH) paleoarchives covering the last 2000 years. We identified 174 monthly to annually resolved climate proxy (tree ring, coral, ice core, documentary, speleothem and sedimentary) records from the Hemisphere. We assess the interannual and decadal sensitivity of each proxy record to large-scale circulation indices from the Pacific, Indian and Southern Ocean regions over the twentieth century. We then analyse the potential of this newly expanded palaeoclimate network to collectively represent predictands (sea surface temperature, sea level pressure, surface air temperature and precipitation) commonly used in climate reconstructions. The key dynamical centres-of-action of the equatorial Indo-Pacific are well captured by the palaeoclimate network, indicating that there is considerable reconstruction potential in this region, particularly in the post AD 1600 period when a number of long coral records are available. Current spatiotemporal gaps in data coverage and regions where significant potential for future proxy collection exists are discussed. We then highlight the need for new and extended records from key dynamical regions of the Southern Hemisphere. Although large-scale climate field reconstructions for the SH are in their infancy, we report that excellent progress in the development of regional proxies now makes plausible estimates of continental- to hemispheric-scale climate variations possible. STUDY NOTES: Uploaded by R. Neukom, data obtained from original authors These are no raw data but processed and truncated chronologies. Details see (Neukom and Gergis 2011, The Holocene, DOI: 10.1177/0959683611427335). For the raws contact the authors or check ITRDB. NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce Investigator : Allen, K.J. 2013-02-28 ONLINE Files online, ASCII https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1003971 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/reconstructions/pages2k/australasia2k/CTP_West.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/reconstructions/pages2k/australasia2k/CTP_West.txt English https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1003971 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/reconstructions/pages2k/australasia2k/CTP_West.txt Allen, K.; Cook, E. ; Francey, R.; Michael, K2001The climatic response of Phyllocladus aspleniifolius (Labill.) Hook. f in TasmaniaJournal of Biogeography28305-31610.1029/2005GC001232 Allen, K2002The Temperature Response in the Ring Widths of Phyllocladus Aspleniifolius (Celery-top Pine) Along an Altitudinal Gradient in the Warra LTER Area, Tasmania403287-299 Neukom, R. and J. Gergis. 2012. Southern Hemisphere high-resolution palaeoclimate records of the last 2000 years. The Holocene, 22(5), 501-524. DOI: 10.1177/0959683611427335 START YEAR: 1547 AD * END YEAR: 1998 AD 146 -42 146 -42