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Elsevier, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 3-4(311), p. 215-223

DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.08.022

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Reconstructions of late Holocene paleofloods and glacier length changes in the Upper Engadine, Switzerland (ca. 1450 BC-AD 420)

Journal article published in 2011 by Monique M. Stewart, Martin Grosjean, Franz G. Kuglitsch, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Lucien von Gunten ORCID
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Abstract

The relationship between summer-autumn floods in Central Europe and climate warming is poorly constrained by available instrumental, historical, proxy and model data. To investigate this relationship, a complete record of paleofloods, regional glacier length changes (and associated climate phases) and regional glacier advances and retreats (and associated climate transitions) are derived from the varved sediments of Lake Silvaplana (ca. 1450 BC–AD 420; Upper Engadine, Switzerland). In combination, these records provide insight into the behavior of floods (i.e. frequency) under a wide range of climate conditions.