- Title
- Holocene hydrological changes in Europe and the role of the North Atlantic ocean circulation from a speleothem perspective
- Creator
- Demeny, Attila; Kern, Zoltan; Hatvani, Istvan Gabor; Torma, Csaba; Topal, Daniel; Frisia, Silvia; Leel-Ossy, Szabolcs; Czuppon, Gyorgy; Suranyi, Gergely
- Relation
- Quaternary International Vol. 571, Issue 10 January 2021, p. 1-10
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.061
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Societal concerns about future hydroclimate changes urge a thorough understanding of the governing processes. Here, an analysis of Middle and Late Holocene speleothem-based hydroclimate reconstructions and paleoclimate model simulations reveals sub-millennial fluctuations in the spatiotemporal variability of precipitation in the European and Mediterranean regions, that complements previous dendrochronological and pollen-based reconstructions with an improved temporal resolution. Although insolation forcing is the primary driver of Holocene hydroclimate changes in Europe on a multimillennial scale, the evaluation of the principal component analysis of speleothem records and correlations with sea surface temperature data indicates that North Atlantic ocean circulation played a significant role in the sub-millennial variation of continental moisture transport, with an increasing importance during the Late Holocene. The combined evaluation of speleothem-based data, climate simulations and sea surface temperature records therefore advances our understanding of the governing processes of Holocene hydroclimate changes in the European and Mediterranean regions.
- Subject
- European and mediterranean regions; speleothems; stable isotope compositions; principal component analysis; Holocene hydroclimate; ocean circulations
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1433347
- Identifier
- uon:39226
- Identifier
- ISSN:1040-6182
- Language
- eng
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