Elsevier, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 3-4(311), p. 215-223
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.08.022
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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.