A High-Resolution Temperature Record from Lakes of the Lofoten Islands, Northwestern Norway based on a New Uk37 Temperature Calibration from in situ Measurements

• Main Author: Huang, Xiaohui
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2011
• Subjects: Alkenone paleothermometer; limnic systems; Lofoten islands; Norway; temperature reconstruction; last millennium; Biogeochemistry; Geology; Other Environmental Sciences; Four Lakes; Lofoten
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/687; https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1754&context=theses

Water filters and sediment trap samples were collected weekly from late May to early September 2009 from four lakes of the Lofoten archipelago, northwestern Norway, and were used to explore the applicability of the alkenone unsaturation index (UK37) for temperature reconstruction in limnic systems i...