Tephras are important for the NZ-INTIMATE project because they link all three records
comprising the composite inter-regional stratotype developed for the New Zealand climate …

Our review of paleoclimate information for New Zealand pertaining to the past 30,000 years
has identified a general sequence of climatic events, spanning the onset of cold conditions …

Reliable interpretation of annual-resolution climate proxies for wind, precipitation, and
detrital influx are required for identifying the onset and periodicities of climatic events. In …

Following resolution of a long-standing debate over the timing of the initial settlement of New
Zealand from Polynesia (late 13th century), a prevailing paradigm has developed that …

This chapter provides an overview of New Zealand's modern climate, followed by a
summary of evidence for long-term climate changes on land and the surrounding oceans …

The Holocene thermal maximum (HTM) is a spatio-temporally variable period of generally
warmer conditions during the early and middle Holocene that is often used as an analogue …

Detailed tephrochronologies are built to underpin probabilistic volcanic hazard forecasting,
and to understand the dynamics and history of diverse geomorphic, climatic, soil-forming …

Lake sediment records offer insights into past climate and environmental changes. There
are, however, few continuous lake sediment records from the Southern Hemisphere mid …

Abstract A 9.3-m-long lake sediment core from dune-impounded Lake Kai Iwi in Northland,
New Zealand provides a nearly continuous record of environmental changes from multi …

Palaeo sea‐ice estimation, first addressed in the mid‐1970s, has advanced greatly through
the development of additional proxies, increasingly robust statistical methods, and the …