Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere's most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia

Opel, Thomas; Murton, Julian B.; Wetterich, Sebastian; Meyer, Hanno; Ashastina, Kseniia; Günther, Frank; Grotheer, Hendrik; Mollenhauer, Gesine; Danilov, Petr P.; Boeskorov, Vasily; Savvinov, Grigoriy N.; Schirrmeister, Lutz

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1443-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1443-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1443-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 4

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02 Aug 2019

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Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere's most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia

Thomas Opel, Julian B. Murton, Sebastian Wetterich, Hanno Meyer, Kseniia Ashastina, Frank Günther, Hendrik Grotheer, Gesine Mollenhauer, Petr P. Danilov, Vasily Boeskorov, Grigoriy N. Savvinov, and Lutz Schirrmeister

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RC1: 'Review of “Middle and Late Pleistocene climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere’s most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia” by Dr. Opel and colleagues', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Dec 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee #1', Thomas Opel, 08 Apr 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to Referees #1 to #3', Thomas Opel, 15 Jun 2019
RC2: 'Review of Opel et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee #2', Thomas Opel, 08 Apr 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to Referees #1 to #3', Thomas Opel, 15 Jun 2019
RC3: 'Review : Middle and Late Pleistocene climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere’s most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia', Anonymous Referee #3, 19 May 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to Referees #1 to #3', Thomas Opel, 15 Jun 2019
  - AC4: 'Revised manuscript with track changes', Thomas Opel, 19 Jun 2019

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Jun 2019) by Denis-Didier Rousseau

AR by Thomas Opel on behalf of the Authors (01 Jul 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Jul 2019) by Denis-Didier Rousseau

AR by Thomas Opel on behalf of the Authors (09 Jul 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

To reconstruct past winter climate, we studied ice wedges at two sites in the Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia (Russia), the most continental region of the Northern Hemisphere. Our ice wedges of the upper ice complex unit of the Batagay megaslump and a river terrace show much more depleted stable-isotope compositions than other study sites in coastal and central Yakutia, reflecting lower winter temperatures and a higher continentality of the study region during Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 1.