Evidence of NAO control on subsurface ice accumulation in a 1200 yr old cave-ice sequence, St. Livres ice cave, Switzerland

• Main Authors: Stoffel, Markus, Luetscher, Marc, Bollschweiler, Michelle, Schlatter, Frédéric
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Jura; Norway; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://doc.rero.ch/record/12505/files/stoffel_enc.pdf

Mid-latitude ice caves are assumed to be highly sensitive to climatic changes and thus represent a potentially interesting environmental archive. Establishing a precise chronology is, however, a prerequisite for the understanding of processes driving the cave-ice mass balance and thus allows a paleo...