Orme, Lisa C; Charman, Dan J; Reinhardt, Liam; Jones, Richard T; Mitchell, Fraser J G; Stefanini, Bettina S; Barkwith, Andrew; Ellis, Michael A; Grosvenor, Mark (2021): Reconstruction of past storminess and storm track position, evidence from Pedrido Bog, Galicia, Spain [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931007
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Published: 2021-05-03 • DOI registered: 2021-06-03
Abstract:
Over annual to decadal timescales changes in the storm track influences regional climate in Europe, however little is known about how the storm track varies over centennial and millennial timescales. We here present two datasets. The first is a reconstruction of storminess from northwest Spain spanning the period 4600-0 cal yrs BP, which was developed by measuring aeolian sand deposits in a peat core from Pedrido Bog, Galicia, Spain. Samples of equal volume (5 cm3) from 1 cm contiguous intervals along the core were processed using the loss-on-ignition method (Heiri et al. 2001), leaving the ignition residue, which was sieved to establish the weight of the 120-180 and >180 micron sand fractions. The ignition residue and sand fractions reflect the past amount of sand deposition, which can be used as proxies for storminess. The second dataset is a North-South storm track index reconstruction for western Europe spanning the period 3940-120 cal yrs BP. To create the storm track index, the above described storminess record from Spain was subtracted from a storminess record from Scotland, derived by averaging the results of two storminess reconstructions from the Outer Hebrides, Scotland (Orme et al., 2016). Each record was sampled to the same 20 year temporal resolution and standardised prior to this.
Related to:
Orme, Lisa C; Charman, Dan J; Reinhardt, Liam; Jones, Richard T; Mitchell, Fraser J G; Stefanini, Bettina S; Barkwith, Andrew; Ellis, Michael A; Grosvenor, Mark (2017): Past changes in the North Atlantic storm track driven by insolation and sea-ice forcing. Geology, 45(4), 335-338, https://doi.org/10.1130/G38521.1
Further details:
Heiri, Oliver; Lotter, André F; Lemcke, G (2001): Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results. Journal of Paleolimnology, 25(1), 101-110, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008119611481
Orme, Lisa C; Reinhardt, Liam; Jones, Richard T; Charman, Dan J; Barkwith, Andrew; Ellis, Michael A (2016): Aeolian sediment reconstructions from the Scottish Outer Hebrides: Late Holocene storminess and the role of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 132, 15-25, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.045
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Median Latitude: 47.199757 * Median Longitude: -7.480367 * South-bound Latitude: 43.450300 * West-bound Longitude: -7.529200 * North-bound Latitude: 57.559722 * East-bound Longitude: -7.345833
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- Orme, LC; Charman, DJ; Reinhardt, L et al. (2021): North-south storm track index reconstruction for western Europe from Pedrido Bog, Galicia, Spain. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931006
- Orme, LC; Charman, DJ; Reinhardt, L et al. (2021): Sand-based storminess proxies from Pedrido Bog, Galicia, Spain. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931005