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Author : Gajewski, K.; and Viau, A.
Date : 2009.
Title : Regional climate reconstructions in northern North America.
Publication : Retrospective Views on Our Planet's Future. Past Global Changes (PAGES) 3rd Open Science Meeting. July 8-11, 2009. Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
Issue : Program and Abstracts Volume:
Page(s) : 50.
Abstract
We have developed continental-scale quantitative estimates of temperature and precipitation for North America, as well as regional series for northern North America and Greenland using a combination of high resolution and radiocarbon dated pollen records. New records from the Canadian Arctic along with data extracted from the Global Pollen Database are used to provide estimates of past climates for the Holocene and the past 2ka. Millennial-scale climate variations are coherent between North America and Europe, as well as between different proxy-climate records such as ice cores and ocean sediments. Climate variations such as the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age are expressed across Northern North America, although warmer in central Canada and colder in Labrador. The use of regional to continental-scale series permits higher resolution than if only individual sites are used.
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