Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-171-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-171-2016
Research article
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03 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 03 Feb 2016

Spatial and temporal oxygen isotope variability in northern Greenland – implications for a new climate record over the past millennium

S. Weißbach, A. Wegner, T. Opel, H. Oerter, B. M. Vinther, and S. Kipfstuhl

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Based on a set of 12 intermediate deep ice cores, covering an area of about 200 000 km2, we studied the spatial and temporal d18O patterns of northern Greenland over the past millennium and found a strong east-west gradient related to the main ice divide. A stacked record with significantly reduced noise revealed distinct climate variations with a pronounced Little Ice Age and distinct warm events such as the Medieval Climate Anomaly, around AD 1420 and in the 20th century.