| The work presented in this dissertation focuses on the paleoceanography of the Indonesian Seas over the past 25,000 years; a region that plays a critical role in the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation. The modern oceanography of the Indonesian Seas is very complex due to the combined impact of the East Asian Monsoon, the Australian Monsoon, the migration of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the El Niño Southern Oscillation, which is reflected in sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity (SSS) changes in this region on both intra- and interannual timescales. Therefore, in order to explore the impacts of these various climate systems on the paleoceanography of the Indonesian Seas, unbiased estimates of past SST/ SSS are needed. One of... |
