How stable are twentieth-century calibration models? A high-resolution summer temperature reconstruction for the eastern Swiss Alps back to AD 1580 derived from proglacial varved sediments

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-63

  Blass, Alex ^a,b   Grosjean, Martin ^b,c   Troxler, Andrea ^c   Sturm, Michael ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b NCCR in Climate   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Alps; Climate reconstruction; Glacier; Lake sediments; Late Holocene; Varves

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VARVE;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; SILVAPLANERSEE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34548010838     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607073278     Document Type: Article

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