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Editor(s): A. Mangini, C. Spötl, S. Frisia, G. Lohmann, E. Wolff, and D. Fleitmann

Speleothems are highly valuable continental archives of past climate changes. The main aim of this special issue is to bring together contributions providing new insights in speleothem research. Of special interest are the processes driving the incorporation of various proxies in speleothems including O- and C-isotopes, trace elements, fluid inclusions, Mg-isotopes and non-traditional proxies. We especially welcome contributions with focus on multi-proxy data series at very high resolution. We also encourage contributions on long-term monitoring studies, which focus on recent regional climate variability and on processes involved in speleothem formation.

14 Feb 2013

Reconstruction of drip-water δ¹⁸O based on calcite oxygen and clumped isotopes of speleothems from Bunker Cave (Germany)

T. Kluge, H. P. Affek, T. Marx, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, D. F. C. Riechelmann, D. Scholz, S. Riechelmann, A. Immenhauser, D. K. Richter, J. Fohlmeister, A. Wackerbarth, A. Mangini, and C. Spötl

Clim. Past, 9, 377–391, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-377-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-377-2013, 2013

22 Jan 2013

Stable isotopes in caves over altitudinal gradients: fractionation behaviour and inferences for speleothem sensitivity to climate change

V. E. Johnston, A. Borsato, C. Spötl, S. Frisia, and R. Miorandi

Clim. Past, 9, 99–118, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-99-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-99-2013, 2013

21 Jan 2013

Simulated European stalagmite record and its relation to a quasi-decadal climate mode

G. Lohmann, A. Wackerbarth, P. M. Langebroek, M. Werner, J. Fohlmeister, D. Scholz, and A. Mangini

Clim. Past, 9, 89–98, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-89-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-89-2013, 2013

08 Jan 2013

Influence of orbital forcing and solar activity on water isotopes in precipitation during the mid- and late Holocene

S. Dietrich, M. Werner, T. Spangehl, and G. Lohmann

Clim. Past, 9, 13–26, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-13-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-13-2013, 2013

07 Jan 2013

Stalagmite water content as a proxy for drip water supply in tropical and subtropical areas

N. Vogel, Y. Scheidegger, M. S. Brennwald, D. Fleitmann, S. Figura, R. Wieler, and R. Kipfer

Clim. Past, 9, 1–12, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-1-2013,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-1-2013, 2013

14 Dec 2012

A re-evaluation of the palaeoclimatic significance of phosphorus variability in speleothems revealed by high-resolution synchrotron micro XRF mapping

S. Frisia, A. Borsato, R. N. Drysdale, B. Paul, A. Greig, and M. Cotte

Clim. Past, 8, 2039–2051, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-2039-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-2039-2012, 2012

20 Nov 2012

The magnesium isotope record of cave carbonate archives

S. Riechelmann, D. Buhl, A. Schröder-Ritzrau, D. F. C. Riechelmann, D. K. Richter, H. B. Vonhof, J. A. Wassenburg, A. Geske, C. Spötl, and A. Immenhauser

Clim. Past, 8, 1849–1867, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1849-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1849-2012, 2012

14 Nov 2012

Coarsely crystalline cryogenic cave carbonate – a new archive to estimate the Last Glacial minimum permafrost depth in Central Europe

K. Žák, D. K. Richter, M. Filippi, R. Živor, M. Deininger, A. Mangini, and D. Scholz

Clim. Past, 8, 1821–1837, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1821-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1821-2012, 2012

05 Nov 2012

Simulated oxygen isotopes in cave drip water and speleothem calcite in European caves

A. Wackerbarth, P. M. Langebroek, M. Werner, G. Lohmann, S. Riechelmann, A. Borsato, and A. Mangini

Clim. Past, 8, 1781–1799, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1781-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1781-2012, 2012

31 Oct 2012

Bunker Cave stalagmites: an archive for central European Holocene climate variability

J. Fohlmeister, A. Schröder-Ritzrau, D. Scholz, C. Spötl, D. F. C. Riechelmann, M. Mudelsee, A. Wackerbarth, A. Gerdes, S. Riechelmann, A. Immenhauser, D. K. Richter, and A. Mangini

Clim. Past, 8, 1751–1764, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1751-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1751-2012, 2012

31 Oct 2012

COnstructing Proxy Records from Age models (COPRA)

S. F. M. Breitenbach, K. Rehfeld, B. Goswami, J. U. L. Baldini, H. E. Ridley, D. J. Kennett, K. M. Prufer, V. V. Aquino, Y. Asmerom, V. J. Polyak, H. Cheng, J. Kurths, and N. Marwan

Clim. Past, 8, 1765–1779, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1765-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1765-2012, 2012

23 Oct 2012

Effects of dating errors on nonparametric trend analyses of speleothem time series

M. Mudelsee, J. Fohlmeister, and D. Scholz

Clim. Past, 8, 1637–1648, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1637-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1637-2012, 2012

11 Oct 2012

Isotopic and lithologic variations of one precisely-dated stalagmite across the Medieval/LIA period from Heilong Cave, central China

Y. F. Cui, Y. J. Wang, H. Cheng, K. Zhao, and X. G. Kong

Clim. Past, 8, 1541–1550, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1541-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1541-2012, 2012

10 Oct 2012

Stable isotope and trace element investigation of two contemporaneous annually-laminated stalagmites from northeastern China surrounding the "8.2 ka event"

J. Y. Wu, Y. J. Wang, H. Cheng, X. G. Kong, and D. B. Liu

Clim. Past, 8, 1497–1507, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1497-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1497-2012, 2012

27 Aug 2012

Holocene climate variability in north-eastern Italy: potential influence of the NAO and solar activity recorded by speleothem data

D. Scholz, S. Frisia, A. Borsato, C. Spötl, J. Fohlmeister, M. Mudelsee, R. Miorandi, and A. Mangini

Clim. Past, 8, 1367–1383, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1367-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1367-2012, 2012

11 Jul 2012

Millennial-length forward models and pseudoproxies of stalagmite δ¹⁸O: an example from NW Scotland

A. Baker, C. Bradley, S. J. Phipps, M. Fischer, I. J. Fairchild, L. Fuller, C. Spötl, and C. Azcurra

Clim. Past, 8, 1153–1167, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1153-2012,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-1153-2012, 2012