A Canterbury climate modeler is part of an international team studying a 764-meter ice core that preserves more than 80,000 years of global climate data.
Dr. Abhijith Ulayottil Venugopal, a Postdoctoral Fellow from the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury , carried out his research as part of the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution project, a nine-nation collaborative science venture led by New Zealand.
Dr. Venugopal's research focuses on the impact of Westerly wind patterns on the Southern Ocean as this affects the release of COfrom deep ocean currents.
"The benefit of the ice core is that it gives a continuous record of temperature, sea-ice changes, and wind patterns, all from the same sample. By studying the changes in the ice over time we can see that, in the past, the climate system has approached thresholds at which change occurs very rapidly."
Dr. Giuseppe Cortese, a co-author on the study from GNS Science, says shifts in the position and strength of this wind system are also observed in response to current warming trends."These shifts have important consequences for the global climate system and have an impact on New Zealand. They affect the currents that transport heat around the ocean, and influence regional temperature, precipitation and storms over New Zealand.
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