Radiocarbon wiggle matching of Swedish lake varves reveals asynchronous climate changes around the 8.2 kyr cold event     

IAN SNOWBALL  RAIMUND MUSCHELER  LOVISA ZILLÉN  PER SANDGREN  TANIA STANTON  KARL LJUNG 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2010,39(4):720-733

Snowball, I., Muscheler, R., Zillén, L., Sandgren, P., Stanton, T. & Ljung, K. 2010: Radiocarbon wiggle matching of Swedish lake varves reveals asynchronous climate changes around the 8.2 kyr cold event. Boreas, Vol. 39, pp. 720–733. 10.1111/j.1502‐3885.2010.00167.x. ISSN 0300‐9483. A series of nine radiocarbon measurements obtained at increments of 50 years was used to wiggle match varved sediments in Lake Kälksjön (west central Sweden) to the calendar year time scale provided by the tree‐ring‐derived radiocarbon calibration curve. The anchor point for a series of 400 varves known to span the ‘8.2 kyr cold event’ was derived from a combination of correlation analysis, Monte Carlo statistics and Bayesian age modelling. The GRIP and NorthGRIP ice‐cores were matched to the same absolute time scale by comparing ¹⁰Be data and tree‐ring Δ¹⁴C. The radiocarbon‐based wiggle match, organic carbon measurements, mineral magnetic parameters and XRF data reconstruct a distinct period of enhanced erosion in Kälksjön's catchment between 8066 ± 25 and 7920 ± 25 cal. yr BP. Prior to human impact, the increased erosion in the boreal environment is assigned to increased winter precipitation in the form of snow, which caused spring meltwater discharge to intensify. Our results suggest that the abrupt onset of increased winter precipitation in west central Sweden started at least 50 years after the onset of the ‘8.2 kyr cold event’ as defined by oxygen isotope data from Greenland. The study highlights the value of synchronized time scales in the reconstruction of abrupt climate changes based on proxy data.  相似文献   

Notes on the ecology and physiology of the Antarctic oribatid mite Maudheimia wilsoni     

LAURITZ SøMME  ALEXANDER STRøMME  KARL ERIK ZACHARIASSEN 《Polar research》1993,12(1):21-25

The oribatid mite Maudheimia wilsoni Dalenius was found to be numerous on the underside of stones at Jutulsessen (72°S, 3'E) in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Daily temperature fluctuations of the microhabitat from as high as 19°C and to as low as – 17°C were observed during the austral summer. Optimal activity of the mites occurred at 10°C. Even in January the mean supercooling point of adult mites was as low as -30.8±4.7°C. Haemolymph osmolality ranged from 500 to 800mOsmol and thermal hystersis freezing points from −4.7 to −6.1°C. Adult mites had a mean water content of 43.6% and a water loss rate of 0.12 μgh⁻¹ at 15°C and 10% relative humidity.  相似文献   

14C DATES OF CALCAREOUS SAMPLES,HERON ISLAND,GREAT BARRIER REEF1     

KARL H. WOLF  G TE STLUND 《Sedimentology》1967,8(3):249-251

Two samples of plant-rich limy sand collected from the 9- and 11-ft.-level of the Heron Island cay were subjected to ¹⁴C dating. Uncertainties related to secondary changes and contaminations, and the unknown transportation history of the woody material prior to accumulation at Heron Island, in combination with the relatively young age of the carbon, did not result in ¹⁴C values useful for correlation and absolute dating purposes.  相似文献   

Eemian and Weichselian stratigraphy in South Sweden   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

BJÖRN E. BERGLUND  ERIK LAGERLUND 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1981,10(4):323-362.

The stratigraphy of Pleistocene sequences within three main areas of the province of Skane, South Sweden, is discussed. The traditional stratigraphy is revised. New lithostratigraphic units are deficned and named according to international stratigraphic terminology. Lithostratigraphical correaltions are based on sedimentological development and palaeoenvironmental changes. Organic beds are correlated with the Eemain interglacial and some of the Early and Middle Weichselian interstadials. The chronostratigraphic key site, Stenberget, is described in greater detail. Stratrigraphy and palaeoenvironment are summarized in a scheme indicating that South Sweden was glaciated only during the period 21,000–13,000 B.P.  相似文献   

Till studies and neotectonics in northwest Skiine, south Sweden     

ERIK LAGERLUND 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1977,6(2):159-166

A mosaic distribution of Pre-Quatcrnary rocks in Skåne constitutes good conditions for using gravel analysis in till-stratigraphical work. Recently discovered neotcctonic movements and their effect on the composition, distribution, and correlation of tills are discussed. With examples from the Kullen arm, it is shown that compositional variability in a till bed, as cvidenl from gt-avel analysis, can be deciphered and is of great stratigraphical value.  相似文献   

Summertime Siberian CO₂ simulations with the regional transport model MATCH: a feasibility study of carbon uptake calculations from EUROSIB data     

ERIK KJELLSTRÖM  KIM HOLMÉN  KRISTINA ENEROTH  MAGNUZ ENGARDT 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2002,54(5):834-849

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Occurrence of an ultrafine particle mode less than 20 nm in diameter in the marine boundary layer during Arctic summer and autumn     

ALFRED WIEDENSOHLER  DAVID S. COVERT  ERIK. SWIETLICKI  PASI. AALTO  JOST. HEINTZENBERG  CAROLINE LECK 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》1996,48(2):213-222

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Low temperature tolerance and osmotic regulation in the amphipod Gammarus oceanicus from Spitsbergen waters     

ARNE VOLLAN AARSET  KARL ERIK ZACHARIASSEN 《Polar research》1988,6(1):35-41

The amphipod Gammarus oceanicus can survive being frozen into solid sea ice at a temperature of –6 to 7C- The animals appear to be supercooled at this temperature. No thermal hysteresis agents were present the haemolymph, and the prevention of internal freezing in the animals thus requires a body surface with a low Permeability to water and ice. Gammarus oceanicus is a euryhaline species. Below 700 mOsm seawater, it displays a very efficient osmoregulation, whereas it is an osmoconformer at seawater osmolalities above this value. At +5°C the amphipods die whenever their body fluid osmolality exceeds about 1000 mOsm. When the animals are trapped in freezing seawater, the osmolality of the brine may exceed this value considerably. The tolerance of the animals to hyperosmotic stress thus seems to be higher at subzero temperatures than at +5°C.  相似文献   

Ice algae in the Barents Sea: types of assemblages, origin, fate and role in the ice-edge phytoplankton bloom   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

ERIK E. SYVERTSEN 《Polar research》1991,10(1):277-288

Ice algal accumulations were recognised by their vertical distribution in the ice, as surface, interior and bottom assemblages. The latter were quantitatively the most important in the Barents Sea and in particular the sub-ice assemblage floating towards, or attached to, the undcr-surface of the sea ice. Colonisation of the ice takes place by a "sieving" of the water between closely spaced platelets on the ice under-surface. Once associated with the ice, the assemblage undergoes a succession terminated by the dominance of ice specialists. In a horizontal S-N section through the ice, three distinct zones may be recognised: at the ice edge the recently colonised ice has a layer of algae up to a few millimeters in thickness consisting primarily of planktonic species. Further into older first year ice the algal layer becomes thicker and is typically dominated by the pennate diatom Nilzschia frigida Grunow. Below multi-year ice in the central polar basin decimetre-thick mats of algae are found, consisting almost exclusively of the centric diatom Melosira arclica (Ehrenberg) Dickie and a few associated, mostly epiphytic, species. The predominantly planktonic sub-ice assemblages at the ice edge can grow under stable conditions as soon as the light becomes adequate in the spring, and they are able to multiply actively for one to two months before planktonic growth is possible. The sub-ice plankton assemblage thus forms an inoculum released to the stabilising water when the ice starts melting. This may explain how a phytoplankton bloom can develop explosively at the ice edge as soon as the ice melting commences, at a time when the number of algal cells in the water column is still very low.  相似文献   

A most beautiful polar low. A case study of a polar low development in the Bear Island region     

THOR ERIK NORDENG  ERIK A. RASMUSSEN 《地球，A辑:动力气象学与海洋学》1992,44(2):81-99

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