Rapid summer temperature changes during Termination 1a: High-resolution multi-proxy climate reconstructions from Gerzensee (Switzerland)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 103-113

  Lotter, André F ^a   Heiri, Oliver ^a,c   Brooks, Stephen ^b   van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F N ^c   Eicher, Ulrich ^d   Ammann, Brigitta ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OXYGEN;

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; GREENLAND ICE CORES; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION;

ISOTOPES;

CARBONATE; FLY; FOSSIL RECORD; INTERSTADIAL; LATE GLACIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BERN [SWITZERLAND]; GERZENSEE; SWITZERLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 80053211565     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.022     Document Type: Article

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