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Stable isotopes in cave ice suggest summer temperatures in east-central Europe are linked to Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation variability
Carmen-Andreea Bădăluţă
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Stable Isotope Laboratory, Ştefan cel Mare University, Suceava,
720229, Romania
Department of Geography, Ştefan cel Mare University, Suceava, 720229, Romania
Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences MTA, Budapest, 1112, Hungary
Stable Isotope Laboratory, Ştefan cel Mare University, Suceava,
720229, Romania
Emil Racoviţă Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, 400006, Romania
Monica Ionita
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine
Research, Bremerhaven, 27515, Germany
Natalia Piotrowska
Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice,
44-100, Poland
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Short summary
We present a reconstruction of summer temperature for the last millennium in east-central Europe that shows little summer temperature differences between the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age on centennial scales as well as the fact that well-expressed minima and maxima occurred synchronously with periods of low and high solar activity, respectively. Furthermore, summer temperatures fluctuated with a periodicity similar to that of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
We present a reconstruction of summer temperature for the last millennium in east-central Europe...
