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18 Jan 2016
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| 18 Jan 2016
Hydroclimatic variability in the Levant during the early last glacial (∼ 117–75 ka) derived from micro-facies analyses of deep Dead Sea sediments
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2 – Climate
Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
M. J. Schwab
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2 – Climate
Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
N. D. Waldmann
University of Haifa, Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H. Charney
School of Marine Sciences, Mount Carmel 31905, Israel
R. Tjallingii
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2 – Climate
Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
U. Frank
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2 – Climate
Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
E. Hadzhiivanova
University of Haifa, Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H. Charney
School of Marine Sciences, Mount Carmel 31905, Israel
R. Naumann
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 3.1 – Inorganic and
Isotope Geochemistry, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
N. Taha
University of Haifa, Department of Marine Geosciences, Leon H. Charney
School of Marine Sciences, Mount Carmel 31905, Israel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann
Institute of Earth Sciences, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann
Institute of Earth Sciences, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
A. Brauer
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2 – Climate
Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science,
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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We present C-Scan, a new Scots pine tree-ring density based reconstruction of warm-season (April-September) temperatures for central Scandinavia back to 850 CE, extending the previous reconstruction by 250 years. Our reconstruction indicates that the warm-season warmth during a relatively-warm period of last millennium is not so pronounced in central Scandinavia, which adds further detail to our knowledge about the spatial pattern of surface air temperature on the regional scale.
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Int. J. Climatol., 26, 55–73, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1238, 2006.
Short summary
Micro-facies changes and elemental variations in deep Dead Sea sediments are used to reconstruct relative lake level changes for the early last glacial period. The results indicate a close link of hydroclimatic variability in the Levant to North Atlantic-Mediterranean climates during the time of the build-up of Northern Hemisphere ice shields. First petrographic analyses of gravels in the deep core question the recent hypothesis of a Dead Sea dry-down at the end of the last interglacial.
Micro-facies changes and elemental variations in deep Dead Sea sediments are used to reconstruct...
