Climate reconstruction of the MWP in the Baltic Sea area based on biogeochemical proxies from a sediment record

• Main Authors: Dippner, Joachim W, Voss, Maren
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Central Baltic Sea; Medieval Warm Period; Climate variability; NAO index; Gotland Basin; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://lmavb.lvb.lt/LMAVB:ELABAPDB5463302&prefLang=en_US

A multi-proxy data set from a sediment core from the Central Gotland Basin shows an extreme peak in many variables in a depth of 70-80 cm. Dating suggests an age of 700-790 varve years (before 1950) which fits into the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) from 1100-1250 AD. The variables are used as regional...