Mild Little Ice Age and unprecedented recent warmth in an 1800 year lake sediment record from Svalbard

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1007-1010

  D'Andrea, William J ^a,e   Vaillencourt, David A ^a   Balascio, Nicholas L ^a   Werner, Al ^b   Roof, Steven R ^c   Retelle, Michael ^d   Bradley, Raymond S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^e International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; ALKENONES; ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLD TEMPERATURES; HEAT TRANSPORT; HIGH ARCTIC LAKES; HOLOCENES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LAKE-SEDIMENT RECORDS; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; SPITSBERGEN; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; SVALBARD; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; WEST SPITSBERGEN CURRENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; LEAD; PLUTONIUM; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

LAKES;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIATION; GLACIER; GLOBAL WARMING; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLUTONIUM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ARCTIC; KONGRESSVATNET; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84866063127     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33365.1     Document Type: Article

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