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11 Apr 2025
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High-resolution Holocene record based on detailed tephrochronology from Torfdalsvatn, north Iceland, reveals natural and anthropogenic impacts on terrestrial and aquatic environments
David J. Harning, Christopher R. Florian, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Thor Thordarson, Gifford H. Miller, Yarrow Axford, and Sædís Ólafsdóttir
Clim. Past, 21, 795–815, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-795-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-795-2025, 2025
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10 Apr 2025
A 100-Year record of mineralogical variations in Northeastern Greenland ice-core dust: Insights from individual particle analysis
Naoko Nagatsuka, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Kana Nagashima, Koji Fujita, Yuki Komuro, Motohiro Hirabayashi, Jun Ogata, Kaori Fukuda, Yoshimi Ogawa-Tsukagawa, Kyotaro Kitamura, Ayaka Yonekura, Fumio Nakazawa, Yukihiko Onuma, Naoyuki Kurita, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Giulia Sinnl, Trevor James Popp, and Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1522,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1522, 2025
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10 Apr 2025
Ocean control on sea ice in the Nordic Seas
Wanyee Wong, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Malin Ödalen, Amandine Aline Tisserand, Kirsten Fahl, Ruediger Stein, and Eystein Jansen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1542,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1542, 2025
Preprint under review for CP (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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11 Apr 2025
High-resolution Holocene record based on detailed tephrochronology from Torfdalsvatn, north Iceland, reveals natural and anthropogenic impacts on terrestrial and aquatic environments
David J. Harning, Christopher R. Florian, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Thor Thordarson, Gifford H. Miller, Yarrow Axford, and Sædís Ólafsdóttir
Clim. Past, 21, 795–815, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-795-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-795-2025, 2025
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20 Mar 2025
Reconstruction of Holocene and Last Interglacial vegetation dynamics and wildfire activity in southern Siberia
Jade Margerum, Julia Homann, Stuart Umbo, Gernot Nehrke, Thorsten Hoffmann, Anton Vaks, Aleksandr Kononov, Alexander Osintsev, Alena Giesche, Andrew Mason, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Gideon M. Henderson, Ola Kwiecien, and Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Clim. Past, 21, 661–677, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-661-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-661-2025, 2025
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