Reconstruction of glacier variability from lake sediments reveals dynamic Holocene climate in Svalbard

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Bilt, Willem van der, Bakke, Jostein, Vasskog, Kristian, D`Andrea, William, Bradley, Raymond S., Ólafsdóttir, Sædis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: Holocene climate; Svalbard; Glacier activity; Lake sediments; Numerical analyses; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400; Arctic; Hudson; Hudson Strait; glacier; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/10934; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.003

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Holocene proxy time-series are increasingly used to put this amplified response in perspective by understanding Arctic climate processes beyond the instrumental period. However, available datasets are scarce, unevenly distributed and often of...