Arc-Hvitarvatn.Larsen.2011 - v1.0.4

Dataset Id: Pl60rKMf9B3sIIOTalyE

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root

archiveType: LakeSediment

lipdVersion: 1.3

pub
pub1

author: Larsen, Darren J.;Miller, Gifford H.;Geirsdóttir, Áslaug;Thordarson, Thorvaldur

citeKey: larsen2011a3000yearvarvedrecordofgl

journal: Quaternary Science Reviews

volume: 30

pages: 2715-2731

pubYear: 2011

title: A 3000-year varved record of glacier activity and climate change from the proglacial lake Hvítárvatn, Iceland

doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.05.026

pub2

author: Larsen, D.J.

citeKey: larsen2013httpswwwncdcnoaagovpaleostudy14730DataCitation

title: World Data Center for Paleoclimatology

geo

latitude: 64.6

longitude: -19.8

elevation: 422

siteName: Hvitarvatn

pages2kRegion: Arc

PaleoData columns
year (yr AD)

TSid: PYTU43KVL36

variableName: year

units: yr AD

description: Year AD

interpretation
1
thickness (cm)

TSid: Arc_021

variableName: thickness

units: cm

useInGlobalTemperatureAnalysis: TRUE

interpretation
1

basis: based on studies of glacier mass balance and glaciology in Iceland (e.g. Bjornsson; Flowers), I would agree that Icelandic glacier fluctuations are dominantly controlled by changes in melt season temperature. Glacier fluctuations influence the production and transport of eroded material and the eventual deposition of this sediment in a downstream basin (i.e. a proglacial lake). ... On short timescales (seasonal, annual, inter-annual), changes in sediment accumulation can be driven by many factors and we can all agree that identifying individual controls is messy. But on longer timescales (for example, centennial timescales, ... I would argue strongly that changes in sediment accumulation are driven by changes in glacier size. This is laid out in Larsen et al., 2011 QSR. We subsequently expanded on this initial study to: 1) include the whole Holocene (Larsen et al., 2012 QSR attached, which demonstrates a clear "8.2ka-event" signal and subsequent Neoglacial onset), and 2) by measuring varve thickness in multiple cores along a lake transect and tying the core data to seismic stratigraphy (Larsen et al. 2013 EPSL attached). This latter work demonstrates that the trends in sediment accumulation are consistent and observed throughout the lake basin. Given the available data, I feel comfortable summarizing as follows: Icelandic glacier fluctuations are dominantly controlled by summer temperature. On longer timescales, fluctuations of the Langjokull ice cap can be reconstructed from changes in mean varve thickness at glacial lake 'Hvitarvatn. with instrumental record'

interpDirection: negative

scope: climate

seasonality: Jun-Aug

timescale: multidecadal to millennial

variable: temperature

variableDetail: air@surface