Reconstruction of past climate conditions over central Europe from groundwater data

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 3423-3429

  Corcho Alvarado, J A ^a   Leuenberger, M ^b   Kipfer, R ^c,d   Paces, T ^e   Purtschert, R ^b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Groundwater; Holocene; Last glacial maximum; Noble gases; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NOBLE GAS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

AQUIFERS; DEUTERIUM; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; ICE; LANDFORMS; NEON; PERMAFROST;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DATA SET; DEUTERIUM; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HOLOCENE; ICE FIELD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NOBLE GAS; PALEOCLIMATE; PERMAFROST; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SCANDINAVIAN ICE SHEET; STABLE ISOTOPE; VALLEY;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 82455218958     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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