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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-841-2024
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Research article
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08 Apr 2024
Research article |
| 08 Apr 2024
| 08 Apr 2024
Reconstruction of warm-season temperatures in central Europe during the past 60 000 years from lacustrine branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs)
Climate Geochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Daniel Böhl
Climate Geochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Frank Sirocko
Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Alexandra Auderset
Climate Geochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom
Gerald H. Haug
Climate Geochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Alfredo Martínez-García
Climate Geochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Short summary
Bacterial lipids (branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers; brGDGTs) extracted from lake sediments were used to reconstruct warm-season temperatures in central Europe during the past 60 kyr. Modern samples were used to test and correct for bias related to varying sources of brGDGTs. The temperature reconstruction is significantly correlated with other temperature reconstructions but features less millennial-scale variability, which is attributed to the seasonal signal of the proxy.
Bacterial lipids (branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers; brGDGTs) extracted from lake...
