Evidence for higher-than-average air temperatures after the 8.2 ka event provided by a Central European δ18O record
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Date | 2017-09 | ||||||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||||||
Author(s) | Andersen Nils1, Lauterbach Stefan2, 3, Erlenkeuser Helmut1, Danielopol Dan L.4, 10, Namiotko Tadeusz![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Affiliation(s) | 1 : Univ Kiel, Leibniz Lab Radiometr Dating & Stable Isotope Res, D-24118 Kiel, Germany. 2 : GFZ German Res Ctr Geosci, Sect 5 2, Climate Dynam & Landscape Evolut, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany. 3 : Univ Innsbruck, Inst Geol, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria. 4 : Karl Franzens Univ Graz, Inst Earth Sci Geol & Palaeontol, A-8010 Graz, Austria. 5 : Univ Gdansk, Fac Biol, Dept Genet, Lab Limnozool, PL-80308 Gdansk, Poland. 6 : CNRS, CEA, UMR 8212, Lab Sci Climat & Environm,UVSQ, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France. 7 : Helmholtz Ctr Polar & Marine Res, Alfred Wegener Inst, Periglacial Res Sect, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany. 8 : Univ Arizona, Lab Tree Ring Res, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA. 9 : Lund Univ, Dept Geol, S-22362 Lund, Sweden. 10 : Austrian Acad Sci, Inst Limnol, A-5310 Mondsee, Austria. |
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Source | Quaternary Science Reviews (0277-3791) (Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd), 2017-09 , Vol. 172 , P. 96-108 | ||||||||||||
DOI | 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.001 | ||||||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 10 | ||||||||||||
Keyword(s) | Holocene, Palaeoclimatology, Europe, Stable isotopes, 8.2 ka event, Lake sediments | ||||||||||||
Abstract | The so-called 8.2 ka event represents one of the most prominent cold climate anomalies during the Holocene warm period. Accordingly, several studies have addressed its trigger mechanisms, absolute dating and regional characteristics so far. However, knowledge about subsequent climate recovery is still limited although this might be essential for the understanding of rapid climatic changes. Here we present a new sub-decadally resolved and precisely dated oxygen isotope (5180) record for the interval between 7.7 and 8.7 ka BP 10(3) calendar years before AD 1950), derived from the calcareous valves of benthic ostracods preserved in the varved lake sediments of pre-Alpine Mondsee (Austria). Besides a clear reflection of the 8.2 ka event, showing a good agreement in timing, duration and magnitude with other regional stable isotope records, the high-resolution Mondsee lake sediment record provides evidence for a 75-year-long interval of higher-than-average delta O-18 values directly after the 8.2 ka event, possibly reflecting increased air temperatures in Central Europe. This observation is consistent with evidence from other proxy records in the North Atlantic realm, thus most probably reflecting a hemispheric-scale climate signal rather than a local phenomenon. As a possible trigger we suggest an enhanced resumption of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), supporting assumptions from climate model simulations. |
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