Constant wind regimes during the Last Glacial Maximum and early Holocene:
evidence from Little Llangothlin Lagoon, New England Tablelands, eastern
Australia

Shulmeister, James; Kemp, Justine; Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E.; Gontz, Allen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1435-2016

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Constant wind regimes during the Last Glacial Maximum and early Holocene: evidence from Little Llangothlin Lagoon, New England Tablelands, eastern Australia

James Shulmeister, Justine Kemp, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, and Allen Gontz

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Summary statistics Guyra Hospital Bureau of Meteorology http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_056229.shtml

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This paper highlights that small dunes (lunettes) formed on the eastern side of a lake in the Australian sub-tropics at the height of the last ice age (about 21,000 years ago) and in the early part of the current interglacial (9–6,000 years ago). This means that it was fairly wet at these times and also that there were strong westerly winds to form the dunes. Today strong westerly winds occur in winter, and we infer that the same was also true at those times, suggesting no change in circulation.