Reconstructions of sea-surface parameters from sediment core MSM05/3_343310 from Disko Bugt, West Greenland

• Main Authors: Allan, Estelle, de Vernal, Anne, Knudsen, Mads Faurschou, Hillaire-Marcel, Claude, Moros, Matthias, Ribeiro, Sofia, Ouellet‐Bernier, Marie‐Michèle, Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Age; Arctic climate change; Arctic sea ice reconstructions; Baffin Bay; Calculated; Dinocyst database; Event label; GC; Gravity corer; Late Holocene; Maria S. Merian; MSM05/3; MSM05/3_343310-2-2; MSM05/3_343310-5-1; MUC; MultiCorer; Paleoproductivity as carbon; Sea ice cover duration; Sea surface salinity; summer; winter; Sea surface temperature; West Greenland; Arctic; Greenland; Baffin; Climate change; Disko bugt; ice core; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.898918; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.898918

Palynological analyses of sediment core MSM343310 from Disko Bugt (68°38.861' N, 53°49.493' W) document decadal‐ to centennial‐scale variability of sea surface conditions during the last ~3,600 years. Dinocyst fluxes (>10⁴ cysts/cm² yr⁻¹) indicate a very high productivity. Dinocyst asse...