Quantitative assessment of precipitation seasonality and summer surface wetness using ombrotrophic sediments from an Arctic Norwegian peatland

Quaternary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 443-451

  Nichols, Jonathan E ^a   Walcott, Marie ^a   Bradley, Raymond ^b   Pilcher, Jon ^c   Huang, Yongsong ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic climate; Leaf waxes; North Atlantic; North Atlantic Oscillation; Paleoclimate; Peat bogs; Precipitation seasonality; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAF; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; NORDLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCANDINAVIA;

SPHAGNUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70349972022     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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