Lateglacial and early-Holocene climate variability reconstructed from multi-proxy records on Andøya, northern Norway

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 108-122

  Birks, Hilary H ^a   Aarnes, Ingelinn ^a   Bjune, Anne E ^a   Brooks, Stephen J ^b   Bakke, Jostein ^a   Kühl, Norbert ^c   Birks, H John B ^a,d,e  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aller d; Catchment glacier; Chironomids; Early Holocene; Inferred July temperature; Lateglacial aridity; Macrofossils; Pollen; Sea ice; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RUNOFF; SEA ICE;

CHIRONOMIDS; EARLY HOLOCENE; LATEGLACIAL ARIDITIES; MACROFOSSILS; POLLEN; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; ISLAND; LATE GLACIAL; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWAY; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84896109448     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.01.018     Document Type: Article

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