@article{gledocs_11858_9147,
author = {Budsky, Alexander and Wassenburg, Jasper A. and Mertz-Kraus, Regina and Spötl, Christoph and Jochum, Klaus Peter and Gibert, Luis and Scholz, Denis},
title = {Western Mediterranean Climate Response to Dansgaard/Oeschger Events: New Insights From Speleothem Records},
year = {2019},
volume = {46},
number = {15},
pages = {9042-9053},

abstract = {The climate of the western Mediterranean was characterized by a strong precipitation gradient during the Holocene driven by atmospheric circulation patterns. The scarcity of terrestrial paleoclimate archives has precluded exploring this hydroclimate pattern during Marine Isotope Stages 5 to 3. Here we present stable carbon and oxygen isotope records from three flowstones from southeast Iberia, which show that Dansgaard/Oeschger events were associated with more humid conditions. This is in agreement with other records from the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and western Europe, which all responded in a similar way to millennial-scale climate variability in Greenland. This general increase in precipitation during Dansgaard/Oeschger events cannot be explained by any present-day or Holocene winter atmospheric circulation pattern. Instead, we suggest that changes in sea surface temperature played a dominant role in determining precipitation amounts in the western Mediterranean.},
note = { \url {http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/9147}},
}