Cold-season temperatures in the European Alps during the past millennium: variability, seasonality and recent trends

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: de Jong, Rixt, Kamenik, Christian, Grosjean, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon 2013
• Subjects: 550 Earth sciences & geology; 910 Geography & travel; Alpine Lake; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://boris.unibe.ch/39437/1/1-s2.0-S0277379113003958-main.pdf; https://boris.unibe.ch/39437/

This study presents a proxy-based, quantitative reconstruction of cold-season (mean October to May, TOct–May) air temperatures covering nearly the entire last millennium (AD 1060–2003, some hiatuses). The reconstruction was based on subfossil chrysophyte stomatocyst remains in the varved sediments o...