New techniques to establish the warmest and coldest periods in recent millennia are helping to update and modernise climatological data.
The Chilean Andes represent an ecologically precious region with diverse climate pressures. The region lacks key climatological data that can help predict long-term weather patterns, a challenge that the EU-funded project CHILE1000 (Chilean lake sediments as archives for climate variability during the past 1 000 years) helped to address.
Further details: Novel methods to extrapolate ancient climatological conditions