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Holocene palaeoceanography of the Northeast Greenland shelf
Teodora Pados-Dibattista
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate Group,
Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
Arctic Research Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
iClimate Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
Christof Pearce
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate Group,
Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
Arctic Research Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
iClimate Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
Henrieka Detlef
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate Group,
Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
Arctic Research Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
iClimate Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
Jørgen Bendtsen
ClimateLab, Brønshøj, 2700, Denmark
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate Group,
Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
Arctic Research Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
iClimate Centre, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8000,
Denmark
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Short summary
We carried out foraminiferal, stable isotope, and sedimentological analyses of a marine sediment core retrieved from the Northeast Greenland shelf. This region is highly sensitive to climate variability because it is swept by the East Greenland Current, which is the main pathway for sea ice and cold waters that exit the Arctic Ocean. The palaeoceanographic reconstruction reveals significant variations in the water masses and in the strength of the East Greenland Current over the last 9400 years.
We carried out foraminiferal, stable isotope, and sedimentological analyses of a marine sediment...
