Quantitative inter-annual and decadal June-July-August temperature variability ca. 570 BC to AD 120 (Iron Age-Roman Period) reconstructed from the varved sediments of Lake Silvaplana, Switzerland

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 491-501

  Stewart, Monique M ^a   Larocque Tobler, Isabelle ^a   Grosjean, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Age Roman Period; Alps; Climate change; Lake sediments; Palaeoclimatology

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; IRON AGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PARTITIONING; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; ROMAN ERA; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ALPS; GRAUBUNDEN; SILVAPLANERSEE; SWITZERLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 79959597986     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1480     Document Type: Article

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