Climatic influence on the inter-annual variability of late-Holocene minerogenic sediment supply in a boreal forest catchment

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 390-398

  Petterson, Gunilla ^a   Renberg, Ingemar ^a   de Luna, Sara Sjöstedt ^a   Arnqvist, Per ^a   John Anderson, N ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Image analysis; Minerogenic matter accumulation rate; Sediment supply; Snow melt; Stream erosion; Temperature; Varves

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; BOREAL FORESTS; CENTENNIAL SCALE VARIABILITY; CHANNEL BANKS; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; EROSION DYNAMICS; FORESTED CATCHMENTS; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LAKE-SEDIMENT RECORDS; LONG TERM RECORDS; LOW-TO-HIGH; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SNOW MELT; SOLAR FORCING; STREAM EROSION; TIME-SCALES; TREE RINGS; WAVELET POWER SPECTRA;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HYDRAULICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SNOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BANK EROSION; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; FORESTED CATCHMENT; HOLOCENE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; SNOWMELT; TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; TREE RING; VARVE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CLIMATES; EROSION; FORESTRY; HYDRAULICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MELTING; PRESSURE; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE;

LAKE KASSJON; SWEDEN; VASTERBOTTEN;

EID: 77950262302     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1933     Document Type: Article

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