Reconstruction Of Past Climate Conditions Over Central Europe From Groundwater Data

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Title
Reconstruction Of Past Climate Conditions Over Central Europe From Groundwater Data
Journal
Quaternary Science Reviews
Author(s)
Corcho Alvarado J.A., Leuenberger M., Kipfer R., Paces T., Purtschert R.
ISSN
0277-3791
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
30
Number
23-24
Pages
3423-3429
Language
english
Abstract
Here we present a 30 000 years low-resolution climate record reconstructed from groundwater data. The investigated site is located in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, in the corridor between the Scandinavian ice sheet and the Alpine ice field. Noble gas temperatures (NGT), obtained from groundwater data, preserved multicentennial temperature variability and indicated a cooling of at least 5-7 °C during the last glacial maximum (LGM). This is further confirmed by the depleted δ18O and δ2H values at the LGM. High excess air (ΔNe) at the end of the Pleistocene is possibly related to abrupt changes in recharge dynamics due to progression and retreat of ice covers and permafrost. These results agree with the fact that during the LGM permafrost and small glaciers developed in the inner valleys of the Giant Mountains (located in the watershed of the aquifers). A temporal decrease of deuterium excess from the pre-industrial Holocene to present days is linked to an increase of the air temperatures, and probably also to an increase of water pressure at the source region of precipitation over the past few hundred years
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