Understanding climate proxies in southwest-Australian speleothems

Abstract

There are two avenues for comparing speleothem-derived climate proxy data against instrumental climate measurements: Via speleothems that have grown through the 20th century, and by carrying out dripwater monitoring studies. Both provide opportunities to investigate how speleothem geochemistry responds to changes in intra- and inter-annual variations in climatic parameters. © 2008, Royal Swedish Academy of Science