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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-559-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-559-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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26 Apr 2018
Research article |
| 26 Apr 2018
| 26 Apr 2018
Recent climate variations in Chile: constraints from borehole temperature profiles
Carolyne Pickler
GEOTOP, Centre de Recherche en Géochimie et en Géodynamique, Université du Québec à
Montréal, Canada
Edmundo Gurza Fausto
Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and
Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova
Scotia, Canada
Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and
Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova
Scotia, Canada
Centre pour l'étude et la simulation du climat à l'échelle régionale
(ESCER), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Jean-Claude Mareschal
GEOTOP, Centre de Recherche en Géochimie et en Géodynamique, Université du Québec à
Montréal, Canada
Francisco Suárez
Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM, Chile
Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustenable (CEDEUS), Santiago, RM, Chile
Centro de Excelencia en Geotermia de los Andes (CEGA), Santiago, RM, Chile
Arlette Chacon-Oecklers
Centre pour l'étude et la simulation du climat à l'échelle régionale
(ESCER), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Nicole Blin
Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM, Chile
Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustenable (CEDEUS), Santiago, RM, Chile
Centro de Excelencia en Geotermia de los Andes (CEGA), Santiago, RM, Chile
Maria Teresa Cortés Calderón
Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, RM, Chile
Centro de Desarrollo Urbano Sustenable (CEDEUS), Santiago, RM, Chile
Centro de Excelencia en Geotermia de los Andes (CEGA), Santiago, RM, Chile
Alvaro Montenegro
Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and
Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova
Scotia, Canada
Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Rob Harris
CEOAS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Andres Tassara
Departamento Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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- Significance of a 1 °C increase in global temperature J. Gagnon
- Calibration and Uncertainty Quantification for Single-Ended Raman-Based Distributed Temperature Sensing: Case Study in a 800 m Deep Coaxial Borehole Heat Exchanger W. Mazzotti Pallard et al.
- A new bootstrap technique to quantify uncertainty in estimates of ground surface temperature and ground heat flux histories from geothermal data F. Cuesta-Valero et al.
- Long-term global ground heat flux and continental heat storage from geothermal data F. Cuesta-Valero et al.
- Extension of Duplexed Single-Ended Distributed Temperature Sensing Calibration Algorithms and Their Application in Geothermal Systems M. Lillo et al.
- Assessment of climate warming in the Western Ghats of India in the past century using geothermal records S. Jha et al.
- Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go? K. von Schuckmann et al.
- Recent Climate Change in Western Black Sea Region of Turkey by Paleoclimatic Reconstruction of Borehole Temperatures B. Çelik et al.
- Inversion of thermal conductivity and heat flow from borehole temperature data affected by recent variation in ground surface temperature S. Goto & M. Yamano
- Global Variability in Multi‐Century Ground Warming Inferred From Geothermal Data P. Hopcroft & K. Gallagher
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Short summary
We compiled 31 temperature–depth profiles to reconstruct the ground surface temperature of the last 500 years in northern Chile. They suggest that the region experienced a cooling from 1850 to 1980 followed by a warming of 1.9 K. The cooling could coincide with a cooling interval in 1960. The warming is greater than that of proxy reconstructions for nearby regions and model simulations. These differences could be due to differences in spatial and temporal resolution between data and models.
We compiled 31 temperature–depth profiles to reconstruct the ground surface temperature of the...
