Multi-Scale, Multi-Proxy Investigation of Late Holocene Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Western North Atlantic Basin

• Main Author: Oliva, François
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2017
• Subjects: Paleotempestology; Tropical Cyclones; Hydroclimatology; Canada; Oliva; Robinson Lake; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-20959; http://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/36679

Paleotempestology, the study of past tropical cyclones (TCs) using geological proxy techniques, is a growing discipline that utilizes data from a broad range of sources. Most paleotempestological studies have been conducted using “established proxies”, such as grain-size analysis, loss-on-ignition,...