Climatic variability during the last millennium in Western Iceland from lake sediment records

Holocene

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 756-771

  Holmes, Naomi ^a   Langdon, Peter G ^b   Caseldine, Chris J ^c   Wastegård, Stefan ^d   Leng, Melanie J ^e,f   Croudace, Ian W ^b   Davies, Siwan M ^g  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^g SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chironomids; Iceland; medieval climate anomaly; North Atlantic Oscillation; palaeolimnology; Little Ice Age

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; FLY; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

ICELAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84964838580     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615618260     Document Type: Article

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