De rol van terrestrisch Sub-Antarctica binnen het klimaats­onderzoek op wereldvlak

Abstract

Past climate change is studied in terrestrial, deep ocean and ice cores. For the last ten years, climatological research has been focused on climatic connections between data from different sources and environments on earth and on the driving mechanism behind these climatic connections. The North Atlantic region is the best known region only because of the many palaeoclimatological data present in this area. Past climate change in the Southern Hemisphere has been attained especially by research of Antarctic ice cores. The number of studies of terrestrial and oceanic cores in the Southern Hemisphere is lower than in the north. The significance of the sub-Antarctic region for the palaeoclimatological discussion has been rather ‘neglected’ in the past. However, the restricted published data and our own research show that sub-Antarctic islands have a great potential for high resolution terrestrial palaeoclimatological research. Moreover, these islands represent the only terrestrial archives in the circum-Antarctic ocean.

Keywords

• palaeoclimatology
• North-Atlantic region
• Southern hemisphere
• sub-Antarctic
• South Georgia
• Holocene