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• Subjects: Chironomidae; Transfer function; Paleotemperature reconstruction; Last interglacial; Baffin Island; Climate change; Arctic; Canada; Devon Island; Baffin; glacier*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.545.4549; http://faculty.eas.ualberta.ca/wolfe/eprints/Francis_Palaeo3_2006.pdf

er f t b c d interglacial period as well as during the Holocene period, but they did not accumulate sediment during most of the glacial period. Midge remains are abundant and well preserved at both sites. Midge-inferred summer surface water temperatures and mean July air with the most dramatic increase since the 1960s. The exhibits strong spatial variability. Supporting observa-tions of this increasing warmth include: decreases in Arctic sea ice and snow cover, negative glacier mass Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, PalaeoeArctic has recently experienced a similar warmingtemperatures were estimated using an inference model built on modern samples spanning a geographic range extending from Devon Island, Canada to Maine, USA. Data from twenty-nine new surface samples from Baffin Island were added to an existing inference model. The new weighted averaging (WA) model for summer surface water temperature yields r2jack=0.88 and RMSEP=2.22 °C for summer water temperatures, and r2jack=0.88 and RMSEP=1.53 °C for mean July air temperatures. Reconstructions at both sites indicate that summer temperatures during the last interglacial were higher than at any time in the Holocene, and 5 to 10 °C higher than present. Peak Holocene temperatures occurred in the first half of the period, and have decreased since about the mid-Holocene.