An 800-year reconstruction of Elbe River discharge and German Bight sea-surface salinity

Scheurle, Carolyn, Hebbeln, Dierk and Jones, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493 (2005) An 800-year reconstruction of Elbe River discharge and German Bight sea-surface salinity. The Holocene, 15 (3). pp. 429-434. ISSN 1477-0911

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Abstract

On the basis of stable oxygen isotopes (d18O), the summer sea-surface salinity of the German Bight, southeastern North Sea, was determined for the past 800 years. In this near-coastal area, salinity is mainly dependent on the freshwater input of the Elbe River discharging its large catchment, which covers an area of 149 000 km2 of central Europe. Therefore, a proxy for Elbe River discharge was reconstructed at the same time, and consequently the d18O record is also mirroring variations in precipitation within the entire drainage basin. Significant variations in these palaeoenvironmental variables are linked to climatic changes.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Depositing User:	Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2011 13:21
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2023 01:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/34088
DOI:	10.1191/0959683605hl802rp

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