Special Issue Available
Journal of Paleolimnology
Volume 41, Number 1
For further information, please go to:
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A new special issue of the Journal of Paleolimnology, volume 41, number
1, 2009, is now available. The special issue, edited by Darrell Kaufman
is focused on late Holocene climate inferred from arctic lake sediment.
An online version can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences/journal/10933.
The 14 papers in this volume contribute to the long-term perspective on
natural climate variability that is needed to understand historically
unprecedented changes now occurring in the Arctic. This special issue
includes studies of lakes from across the North American Arctic and
subarctic, as well as northwestern Europe. The studies generally focus
on the last 2000 years. New paleoclimate records include some of the
longest and highest-resolution records currently available from the
Arctic; they rely on several proxy indicators to reconstruct past
climate, including: varve thicknesses, chironomid, diatom, and pollen
assemblages, biogenic-silica and organic-matter content, oxygen-isotope
ratios in diatoms, and the frequency of lake-ice-rafted aggregates. The
proxy climate data for all records are available at the World Data
Center for Paleoclimatology. More information about the ARCSS 2k project
is at: http://www.arcus.org/synthesis2k/.
Contents of this special issue include:
- An Overview of Late Holocene Climate and Environmental Change Inferred
from Arctic Lake Sediment, by D.S. Kaufman.
Climate of the Little Ice Age and the Past 2000 Years in Northeast
Iceland Inferred from Chironomids and Other Lake Sediment Proxies, by Y.
Axford, A. Geirsdottir, G.H. Miller, and P.G. Langdon.A 2000 Year Varve-Based Climate Record from the Central Brooks Range,
Alaska, by B. Bird, M.B. Abbott, B.P. Finney, and B. Kutchko.Quantitative Summer-Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2000
Years Based on Pollen-Stratigraphical Data from Northern Fennoscandia,
by A.E. Bjune, H. Seppa, and H.J.B. Birks.A 2000 Year Record of Climatic Change at Ongoke Lake, Southwest
Alaska, by M.L. Chipman, G.H. Clarke, B.F. Clegg, I. Gregory-Eaves, and
F.S. Hu.Five Thousand Years of Sediment Transfer in a High Arctic Watershed
Recorded in Annually Laminated Sediments from Lower Murray Lake,
Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, by T.L. Cook, R.S. Bradley, J.S.
Stoner, and P. Francus.A 2000 Year Record of Climate Variations Reconstructed from
Haukadalsvatn, West Iceland, by A. Geirsdottir, G.H. Miller, T.
Thordarson, and K.B. Olafsdottir.Summer Temperatures During the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age
Inferred from Varved Proglacial Lake Sediments in Southern Alaska, by
M.G. Loso.Paleolimnological Evidence of the Response of the Central Canadian
Treeline Zone to Radiative Forcing and Hemispheric Patterns of
Temperature Change Over the Past 2000 Years, by G.M. MacDonald, D.F.
Porinchu, N. Rolland, K.V. Kremenetsky, and D.S. Kaufman.Holocene Climate and Glacier Variability at Hallet and Greyling Lakes,
Chugach Mountains, South-Central Alaska, by N.P. McKay and D.S. Kaufman.Pollen-Based Reconstructions of Late Holocene Climate from the Central
and Western Canadian Arctic, by M.C. Peros and K. Gajewski.A 2000 Year Midge-Based Paleotemperature Reconstruction from the
Canadian Arctic Archipelago, by D.F. Porinchu, G.M. MacDonlad, and N.
Rolland.Late Holocene Storm-Trajectory Changes Inferred from the Oxygen
Isotope Composition of Lake Diatoms, South Alaska, by C.J. Schiff, D.S.
Kaufman, A.P. Wolfe, J. Dodd, and Z. Sharp.Climate of the Past Millennium Inferred from Varved Proglacial Lake
Sediments on Northeast Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, by E.K. Thomas and
J.P. Briner.Sedimentary Pellets as an Ice-Cover Proxy in a High Arctic Ice-Covered
Lake, by J.D. Tomkins, S.F. Lamoureux, D. Antoniades, and W.F. Vincent.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences/journal/10933.