Advances in Geosciences www.adv-geosci.net 1680-7340 1680-7359 22 4th EGU Alexander von Humboldt Conference "The Andes: Challenge for Geosciences" 2009 10.5194/adgeo-22-13-2009 http://www.adv-geosci.net/22/13/2009/ http://www.adv-geosci.net/22/13/2009/adgeo-22-13-2009.html http://www.adv-geosci.net/22/13/2009/adgeo-22-13-2009.pdf 13 25 2009-10-13 Climate variability of the tropical Andes since the late Pleistocene A. Bräuning abraeuning@geographie.uni-erlangen.de Institute for Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Available proxy records witnessing palaeoclimate of the tropical Andes are comparably scarce. Major implications of palaeoclimate development in the humid and arid parts of the Andes are briefly summarized. The long-term behaviour of ENSO has general significance for the climatic history of the Andes due to its impact on regional circulation patterns and precipitation regimes, therefore ENSO history derived from non-Andean palaeo-records is highlighted. Methodological constraints of the chronological precision and the palaeoclimatic interpretation of records derived from different natural archives, such as glacier sediments and ice cores, lake sediments and palaeo-wetlands, pollen profiles and tree rings are addressed and complementary results concerning former climatic conditions are discussed in terms of possible implications of former atmospheric circulation patterns and main climatic forcing factors. During the last years, increasing tree-ring information is getting available from the tropical Andes, providing high-resolution climate-sensitive records covering the past centuries for the study of climate variability. % vor jede Referenz Abbott, M. B., Wolfe, B. B., Wolfe, A. P., Seltzer, G. O., Aravena, R., Mark, B. G., Polissar, P. J., Rodbell, D. T., Rowe, H. D., and Vuille, M.: Holocene paleohydrology and glacial history of the central Andes using multiproxy lake sediment studies, Palaeogeogr. Palaeocl., 194, 123–138, 2003. 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