Proxy-based 300-year High Arctic climate warming record from Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Luoto, Tomi P., Ojala, Antti E. K., Zajaczkowski, Marek
• Other Authors: Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Subjects: Arctic amplification; Chironomidae; Climate change; Palaeoclimatology; Palaeolimnology; Temperature; LATE HOLOCENE CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; ICE-AGE; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; LAST MILLENNIUM; CHIRONOMIDAE INSECTA; AIR-TEMPERATURE; DATA-SET; LAKE; VARIABILITY; 1181 Ecology; evolutionary biology; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Bjornoya; Hornsund; Longyearbyen; Svalbard; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/312442

We used fossil Chironomidae assemblages and the transfer function approach to reconstruct summer air temperatures over the past 300 years from a High Arctic lake in Hornsund, Svalbard. Our aims were to compare reconstructed summer temperatures with observed (last 100 years) seasonal temperatures, to...