Moroccan speleothem and tree ring records suggest a variable positive state of the North Atlantic Oscillation during the Medieval Warm Period

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 375, Issue , 2013, Pages 291-302

  Wassenburg, J A ^a   Immenhauser, A ^a   Richter, D K ^a   Niedermayr, A ^a   Riechelmann, S ^a   Fietzke, J ^b   Scholz, D ^c   Jochum, K P ^d   Fohlmeister, J ^e,f   Schroder Ritzrau A ^f   Sabaoui, A ^g   Riechelmann, D F C ^c   Schneider, L ^c   Esper, J ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^g SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Aragonite; Medieval climate anomaly; North Atlantic Oscillation; Prior calcite precipitation; Speleothem; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; MEDIEVAL CLIMATE ANOMALIES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PRIOR CALCITE PRECIPITATIONS; SPELEOTHEM;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBONATE MINERALS; FORESTRY; RAIN; TRACE ELEMENTS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARAGONITE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; MAGNESIUM; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; SPELEOTHEM; STRONTIUM; TREE RING;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICS; RAIN; TRACE ELEMENTS; TREES;

MOROCCO;

EID: 84881542348     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.048     Document Type: Article

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