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Saija Saarni

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Winter climate signal in boreal clastic-biogenic varves : a comprehensive analysis of three varved records from 1890 to 1990 AD with meteorological a…

2017

Clastic-biogenic varves are widely used for reconstructing past climate: in boreal environments, the accumulation of minerogenic clasts on the lake floor is generally considered a proxy for past variations in spring floods reflecting previous winter conditions. However, the physical mechanisms behind this winter climate sensitivity and the influence of catchment type on the varve formation are not fully investigated. Here, we present a winter climate record inferred from the clastic laminae of three lakes located on the region of fine-grained tills in Eastern Finland spanning from AD 1890 to 1990. The minerogenic varve data are compared with instrumental meteorological and hydrological time…

010506 paleontology010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesta1172ta1171Drainage basinlake sedimentsNorthern Europecatchment dynamics01 natural sciencesProxy (climate)clastic-biogenic varvesta2180105 earth and related environmental sciencesgeographyVarvegeography.geographical_feature_categoryPaleontologyGeology15. Life on landRadiative forcingSubarctic climateclimate forcingBoreal13. Climate actionClastic rockClimatologyfine-grained tillsClimate sensitivityGeologyboreal climateGFF
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Organic lacustrine sediment varves as indicators of past precipitation changes: a 3,000-year climate record from Central Finland

2015

Annually laminated (varved) sediments from Lake Kallio-Kourujärvi, Central Finland, provide high-resolution sedimentological data for the last three millennia. These varves consist of two laminae that represent (1) deposition during the spring-to-autumn growing season, composed of degraded organic matter and a variety of microfossils, and (2) deposition during winter, composed of fine-grained homogenous organic matter. Because of the absence of a clastic lamina, these varves differ from the typical, well-described, clastic-organic varve sequences in Fennoscandian lakes. Such organic varves in Finnish lakes have not been studied in detail before. Three thousand varves were counted and their …

Hydrologychemistry.chemical_classificationVarvePaleoclimateLacustrine varvesNorthern EuropeSedimentOrganic sedimentsPrecipitation reconstructionAquatic ScienceDeposition (geology)Late HoloceneWater columnchemistryClastic rockPaleoclimatologyOrganic matterPhysical geographySedimentologyGeologyEarth-Surface ProcessesJournal of Paleolimnology
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Long-Term Consequences of Water Pumping on the Ecosystem Functioning of Lake Sekšu, Latvia

2020

Cultural eutrophication, the process by which pollution due to human activity speeds up natural eutrophication, is a widespread and consequential issue. Here, we present the 85-year history of a small, initially Lobelia&ndash

INDICATORS0106 biological scienceslcsh:Hydraulic engineeringwater level fluctuationGeography Planning and DevelopmentDIAGENESISNorthern EuropeLEVEL FLUCTUATIONS01 natural sciencesBiochemistrylcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes:Geofag: 450 [VDP]CULTURAL EUTROPHICATION:Geosciences: 450 [VDP]Water Science and Technologybiologymulti-proxy approachPlanktonCladoceraSTATE6. Clean waterORGANIC-MATTEReutrophicationOceanographyCladocera1181 Ecology evolutionary biologyHypolimnionSEDIMENTS010506 paleontologyINDEXESAquatic ScienceChironomidaeHYPOLIMNETIC OXYGENdiatomslcsh:TC1-978Ecosystem14. Life underwater1172 Environmental sciences0105 earth and related environmental scienceslcsh:TD201-500010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyfungiSediment15. Life on landbiology.organism_classificationWater levelDiatom13. Climate actionEnvironmental scienceEutrophicationSOUTHERN FINLANDWater
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