NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Focul Viu Ice Cave, Western Carpathians, Romania 1,150 Year Stable Isotope Data
This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Ice Core. The data include parameters of ice cores with a geographic location of Romania, Eastern Europe. The time period coverage is from 1102 to -55 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.
- Cite as: Badaluta, C.-A.; Persoiu, A.; Ionita, M.; Piotrowska, N. (2020-12-10): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Focul Viu Ice Cave, Western Carpathians, Romania 1,150 Year Stable Isotope Data. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/pg1r-8772. Accessed [date].
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- doi:10.25921/pg1r-8772
- noaa-icecore-32032
- NCEI DSI 1200_02
- NCEI DSI 1200_01
noaa-icecore-32032
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Coverage Description | Date Range: 848 CE to 2005 CE; Date Range: 1102 cal yr BP to -55 cal yr BP; |
Time Period | 848 to 2005 |
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N: 46.566667
S: 46.566667
E: 22.666667
W: 22.666667
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STUDY NOTES: Stable isotope (d18O and d2H) and accumulation data from Focul Viu Ice Cave, Western Carpathians, Romania, for the past 1,150 years.
ABSTRACT SUPPLIED BY ORIGINATOR: The climate of east-central Europe (ECE) is the result of a combination of influences originating in the wider North Atlantic realm, the Mediterranean Sea, and the western Asian and Siberian regions. Previous studies have shown that the complex interplay between the large-scale atmospheric patterns across the region results in strongly dissimilar summer and winter conditions on timescales ranging from decades to millennia. To put these into a wider context, long-term climate reconstructions are required, but, largely due to historical reasons, these are lacking in ECE. We address these issues by presenting a high-resolution, radiocarbon-dated record of summer temperature variations during the last millennium in ECE, based on stable isotope analysis of a 4.84m long ice core extracted from Focul Viu Ice Cave (Western Carpathians, Romania). Comparisons with both instrumental and proxy-based data indicate that the stable isotope composition of cave ice records the changes in summer air temperature and has a similar temporal evolution to that of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on decadal to multidecadal timescales, suggesting that changes in the North Atlantic are transferred, likely via atmospheric processes towards the wider Northern Hemisphere. On centennial timescales, the data show little summer temperature differences between the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA) in eastern Europe. These findings are contrary to those that show a marked contrast between the two periods in terms of both winter and annual air temperatures, suggesting that cooling during the LIA was primarily the result of wintertime climatic changes. |
Purpose | Records of past temperature, precipitation, atmospheric trace gases, and other aspects of climate and environment derived from ice cores drilled on glaciers and ice caps around the world. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this dataset. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the dataset citations. |
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