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Holocene temperatures in southwestern Greenland controlled by topography, ice sheet proximity, and oceanic conditions
Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Allison A. Cluett
Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Amy L. Grogan
Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Jason P. Briner
Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Isla S. Castañeda
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Elizabeth K. Thomas
Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Short summary
We generated five new and compiled previously published Holocene temperature timeseries from southwestern Greenland. We found temperature maxima between 7500 and 5000 years ago, with temperatures approx. 2–5 °C higher than 1994–2024. Afterward, temperatures gradually cooled towards the present, following maximum summer insolation. Local variations in the magnitude and timing of the thermal maximum are related to topography and proximity to the ice sheet and the ocean.
We generated five new and compiled previously published Holocene temperature timeseries from...
