Speleothems; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Switzerland; Turkey; Oman; Yemen; India; Precipitation; Temperature; Environment; Stalagmites; Vegetation
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Fankhauser Adelheid, McDermott Frank, Fleitmann Dominik (2016), Episodic speleothem deposition tracks the terrestrial impact of millennial-scale last glacial climate variability in SW Ireland, in
Quaternary Science Reviews, 152, 104-117.
Affolter Stéphane, Häuselmann Anamaria D., Fleitmann Dominik, Häuselmann Philipp, Leuenberger Markus (2015), Triple isotope (δD, δ17O, δ18O) study on precipitation, drip water and speleothem fluid inclusions for a Western Central European cave (NW Switzerland), in
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Ohata (2014), Comparison of 795 nm and 265 nm femtosecond and 193 nm nanosecond laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the quantitative multi-element analysis of glass materials, in
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Borovinskaya (2014), Element Analysis of Small and even Smaller Objects by ICPMS and LA-ICPMS, in
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Affolter (2014), New on-line method for water isotope analysis of speleothem fluid inclusions using laser absorption spectroscopy (WS-CRDS), in
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Donges (2014), Nonlinear regime shifts in Holocene Asian monsoon variability: potential impacts on cultural change and migratory patterns, in
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Vogel (2013), A combined vacuum crushing and sieving (CVCS) system designed to determine noble gas paleotemperatures from stalagmite samples, in
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Tabersky (2013), Aerosol entrainment and a large-capacity gas exchange device (Q-GED) for laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in atmospheric pressure air, in
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Ernst (2013), Biomarkers record environmental changes along an altitudinal transect in the wettest place on Earth, in
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Rehfeld (2013), Late Holocene Asian summer monsoon dynamics from small but complex networks of paleoclimate data, in
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van Rampelbergh (2013), Mid- to late Holocene Indian Ocean Monsoon variability recorded in four speleothems from Socotra Island, Yemen, in
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Vogel (2013), Stalagmite water content as a proxy for drip water supply in tropical and subtropical areas, in
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Breitenbach (2012), COnstructing Proxy Records from Age models (COPRA), in
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Near-instrumental proxy records of precipitation and temperature play a key role for benchmarking climate models that are also used for climate predictions. As high-quality climate proxy records are required for a meaningful data-model comparison, there is now an increasing demand for well-dated, highly-resolved and continuous terrestrial time series of temperature and precipitation. To date, tree rings and lakes sediments represent the most frequently used terrestrial climate records. However, both archives have weaknesses, such that tree ring records are short and seasonally biased and lake records often lack dating accuracy and temporal resolution. It is thus evident that other potential sources for paleoclimate information must be explored in order to fill methodological and also spatial and temporal gaps of paleoclimate records. Such records can be potentially delivered from speleothems (stalagmites, stalactites, flowstones). However, research on speleothems is still in its infancy, particularly if compared to other climate archives, such as trees or lake sediments. Thus the full potential of speleothems for delivering near-instrumental records of precipitation and temperature is still not fully explored yet. To further establish speleothems as a key-climate archive and to provide true multi-proxy records of climatic and environmental changes during the Holocene and Pleistocene, we request funds for coordinated research on speleothems from Switzerland, Turkey, Oman/Yemen and India.