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Temperature variability in southern Europe over the past 16 500 years constrained by speleothem fluid inclusion water isotopes
Juan Luis Bernal-Wormull
Department of Geoenvironmental Processes and Global Change, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), Avda. Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Department of Geoenvironmental Processes and Global Change, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), Avda. Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Yuri Dublyansky
Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Christoph Spötl
Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Reyes Giménez
Department of Geoenvironmental Processes and Global Change, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), Avda. Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Carlos Pérez-Mejías
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
Miguel Bartolomé
Departamento de Geología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), C. de José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Martin Arriolabengoa
Department of Geology, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
Eneko Iriarte
Laboratory of Human Evolution-IsoTOPIK Stable Isotope Laboratory, Department of History, Geography & Communication, Edificio de I+D+i, Universidad de Burgos, Pl. Misael Bañuelos s/n, 09001, Burgos, Spain
Isabel Cacho
GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, 28080 Barcelona, Spain
Richard Lawrence Edwards
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Hai Cheng
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, 710061, China
Key Laboratory of Karst Dynamics, MLR, Institute of Karst Geology, CAGS, Guilin, 541004, China
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Charlotte Honiat, Gabriella Koltai, Yuri Dublyansky, R. Lawrence Edwards, Haiwei Zhang, Hai Cheng, and Christoph Spötl
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The Cryosphere, 17, 477–497, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-477-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-477-2023, 2023
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Ana Moreno, Miguel Bartolomé, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno, Jorge Pey, Juan Pablo Corella, Jordi García-Orellana, Carlos Sancho, María Leunda, Graciela Gil-Romera, Penélope González-Sampériz, Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Francisco Navarro, Jaime Otero-García, Javier Lapazaran, Esteban Alonso-González, Cristina Cid, Jerónimo López-Martínez, Belén Oliva-Urcia, Sérgio Henrique Faria, María José Sierra, Rocío Millán, Xavier Querol, Andrés Alastuey, and José M. García-Ruíz
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Xianglei Li, Kathleen A. Wendt, Yuri Dublyansky, Gina E. Moseley, Christoph Spötl, and R. Lawrence Edwards
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This paper presents an updated version of the SISAL (Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis) database. This new version contains isotopic data from 691 speleothem records from 294 cave sites and new age–depth models, including their uncertainties, for 512 speleothems.
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In this paper we present a record of temperature changes during the last deglaciation and the Holocene using isotopes of fluid inclusions in stalagmites from the northeastern region of the Iberian Peninsula. This innovative climate proxy for this study region provides a quantitative understanding of the abrupt temperature changes in southern Europe in the last 16 500 years before present.
In this paper we present a record of temperature changes during the last deglaciation and the...
