Reconstructing Younger Dryas ground temperature and snow thickness from cave deposits

Töchterle, Paul; Baldo, Anna; Murton, Julian B.; Schenk, Frederik; Edwards, R. Lawrence; Koltai, Gabriella; Moseley, Gina E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1521-2024

Articles | Volume 20, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1521-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1521-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 7

Research article

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22 Jul 2024

Research article |

| 22 Jul 2024

Reconstructing Younger Dryas ground temperature and snow thickness from cave deposits

Paul Töchterle, Anna Baldo, Julian B. Murton, Frederik Schenk, R. Lawrence Edwards, Gabriella Koltai, and Gina E. Moseley

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1521-2024-supplement

Data sets

ESA Permafrost Climate Change Initiative (Permafrost_cci): Permafrost extent for the Northern Hemisphere J. Obu et al. https://doi.org/10.5285/6e2091cb0c8b4106921b63cd5357c97c

ERA5-Land monthly averaged data from 1950 to present J. Muñoz Sabater https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.68d2bb30

Short summary

We present a reconstruction of permafrost and snow cover on the British Isles for the Younger Dryas period, a time of extremely cold winters that happened approximately 12 000 years ago. Our results indicate that seasonal sea ice in the North Atlantic was most likely a crucial factor to explain the observed climate shifts during this time.