Editor's Summary

14 July 2005

North and south

Southern New Zealand, positioned within the important southwesterly wind system, is a prime site for examining interhemispheric linkages in climate change. A series of cores drilled in the Okarito Pakihi peat bog now provides a continuous record of vegetation and climate change that may become a benchmark for the region. The data include clear evidence for modification of the global climate change signal in the Southern Hemisphere by local variation in the intensity of solar radiation.

Letter: Regional insolation forcing of late Quaternary climate change in the Southern Hemisphere

Marcus J. Vandergoes, Rewi M. Newnham, Frank Preusser, Chris H. Hendy, Thomas V. Lowell, Sean J. Fitzsimons, Alan G. Hogg, Haino Uwe Kasper and Christian Schlüchter

doi: 10.1038/nature03826

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