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SUBMITTER: Luetscher M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4351561 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luetscher Marc M Boch R R Sodemann H H Spötl C C Cheng H H Edwards R L RL Frisia S S Hof F F Müller W W
Nature communications 20150227
The European Alps are an effective barrier for meridional moisture transport and are thus uniquely placed to record shifts in the North Atlantic storm track pattern associated with the waxing and waning of Late-Pleistocene Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. The lack of well-dated terrestrial proxy records spanning this time period, however, renders the reconstruction of past atmospheric patterns difficult. Here we present a precisely dated, continuous terrestrial record of meteoric precipitation in ...[more]