RT Journal Article
T1 A multi-proxy perspective on millennium-long climate variability in the Southern Pyrenees
A1 Morellón Marteles, Mario
A1 Pérez Sanz, Ana
A1 Corella, Juan Pablo
A1 Büntgen, Ulf
A1 Catalán, J.
A1 González Sampériz, Penélope
A1 González Trueba, J.J.
A1 López Saez, José Antonio
A1 Moreno Bofarull, Ana
A1 Pla Rabes, S.
A1 Saz Sánchez, M.Á.
A1 Scussolini, P.
A1 Serrano, Enrique
A1 Steinhilber, F.
A1 Stefanova, V.
A1 Vegas Vilarrúbia, Teresa
A1 Valero Garcés, Blas
AB This paper reviews multi-proxy paleoclimatic reconstructions with robust age-control derived from lacustrine, dendrochronological and geomorphological records and characterizes the main environmental changes that occurred in the Southern Pyrenees during the last millennium. Warmer and relatively arid conditions prevailed during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA, ca. 900–1300 AD), with a significant development of xerophytes and Mediterranean vegetation and limited deciduous tree formations (mesophytes). The Little Ice Age (LIA, 1300–1800 AD) was generally colder and moister, with an expansion of deciduous taxa and cold-adapted montane conifers. Two major phases occurred within this period: (i) a transition MCA–LIA, characterized by fluctuating, moist conditions and relatively cold temperatures (ca. 1300 and 1600 AD); and (ii) a second period, characterized by the coldest and most humid conditions, coinciding with maximum (recent) glacier advances (ca. 1600–1800 AD). Glaciers retreated after the LIA when warmer and more arid conditions dominated, interrupted by a short-living cooling episode during the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Some records suggest a response to solar activity with colder and slightly moister conditions during solar minima. Centennial-scale hydrological fluctuations are in phase with reconstructions of NAO variability, which appears to be one of the main climate mechanisms influencing rainfall variations in the region during the last millennium
PB Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH
SN 1814-9324
YR 2012
FD 2012-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43370
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43370
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Organismo Autónomo Parques Naturales
DS Docta Complutense
RD 3 may 2024